US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 2 for "Carrier-tape processing device and carrier-tape processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,136, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Carrier-tape processing device and carrier-tape processing method" was invented by Yoshinori Isobata (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a carrier tape supply unit that supplies a carrier tape storing components, and a carrier tape processing unit that pulls out the carrier tape from the carrier tape supply unit, forms the carrier tape into a roll shape, and stores the carrier tape in a case. Further, the carrier tape processing unit includes a roll body creating unit that includes a shaft member ho...