ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,513, issued on June 3, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Bulk feeder and component mounting machine" was invented by Yusuke Yamazaki (Chiryu, Japan) and Yuji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bulk feeder includes a feeder main body, a track member provided to be vibratable with respect to the feeder main body and formed with a conveyance path through which multiple components are conveyed and a supply region that communicates with the conveyance path and opens upward to collect the multiple components, an excitation device configured to apply vibration to the track member so that the multiple componen...