US Patent Issued to FUJI on Dec. 30 for "Tape guide, component supply device, and method for using tape guide" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,876, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Tape guide, component supply device, and method for using tape guide" was invented by Keita Tanaka (Takahama, Japan) and Norio Hosoi (Chiryu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape guide includes a guide section to guide the carrier tape, the carrier tape including the base tape provided with the component storage section for storing the electronic component and the cover tape provided on a surface of the base tape to close the component storage section, and a component exposing section having a tongue portion inserted between the base tape and the cover tape d...