US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 18 for "Tray handling device and tray handling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,711, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Tray handling device and tray handling method" was invented by Nobuyuki Kakishima (Yamanashi, Japan), Yasuyuki Ishitani (Yamanashi, Japan), Hirofumi Obara (Yamanashi, Japan), Kazuo Ohuchi (Ehime, Japan), Jun Kamiyamaguchi (Yamanashi, Japan), Takanori Yoshitake (Yamanashi, Japan) and Ryota Inoue (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray is automatically mounted on a pallet. A tray handling device, which handles a tray collected from a component mounting device configured to mount a component held in a tray on a su...