ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,764, issued on April 22, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Backup pin and automatic backup pin exchange system" was invented by Tomohisa Kanda (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backup pin configured to support from below a circuit board can be one of a soft backup pin or a hard backup pin. The soft backup pin includes a soft pin portion formed of a soft elastic material and configured to support from below the circuit board and an engaging pin portion configured to be held in engagement and released from engagement by an engagement holding tool attached to a mounting head of the component mounter performing rais...