ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,747, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Bulk feeder" was invented by Yusuke Yamazaki (Chiryu, Japan), Hideyuki Hasegawa (Nagoya, 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 receiving member provided on the feeder main body and formed with a receiving region configured to receive a component discharged from a component case accommodating multiple components, a track member provided to be vibratable with respect to the feeder main body and formed with a conveyance path through which the multiple components are conveyed and a supply region...