US Patent Issued to Kingnode America on Sept. 23 for "Tape unwinding device with self-locking function" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,073, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Kingnode America Inc. (Atlanta).

"Tape unwinding device with self-locking function" was invented by Benyu Huang (Ningde, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a tape unwinding device with a self-locking function. When a tape is unwound by the device, a swing arm swings under the action of a tension of the tape until an insert is separated from a shifting card, and then, the tape starts to be unwound, which is beneficial to the reduction of a rotational acceleration during unwinding and the improvement of unwinding stability. When the tape is not acted by an exte...