ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,620, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Tape feeder" was invented by Takaji Mukohara (Toyota, Japan) and Yusuke Yamazaki (Chiryu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape feeder includes a path through which a taped lead component, in which a lead component is taped, is fed-out to a supply position, a sensor disposed in the path to detect the taped lead component, and a notification device configured to notify of detection of the taped lead component when the taped lead component is detected by the sensor."
The patent was filed on April 6, 2020, under Application No. 17/995,380.
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