US Patent Issued to FUJI on Nov. 25 for "Reel attaching/detaching device and feeder preparation system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,683, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Reel attaching/detaching device and feeder preparation system" was invented by Daiki Suzuki (Toyokawa, Japan) and Masataka Iwasaki (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reel attaching/detaching device that attaches/detaches a reel on which a tape accommodating a component is wound to and from a feeder which feeds out the tape by a drive of a feed-out section and supplies the component, the device includes a feeder set unit configured to be set in a predetermined orientation when the feeder supplies the component, a reel set unit configured to be set in a pre...