US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Oct. 21 for "Component supply device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,067, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Component supply device" was invented by Yoshinori Isobata (Fukuoka, Japan), Atuyuki Horie (Fukuoka, Japan) and Kyourei Ri (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component supply device includes a first peeling gear and a second peeling gear that are provided upstream of a component supply position, catch a cover tape to peel the cover tape from a base tape, and rotate, the second peeling gear coming into contact with the first peeling gear to rotate together with the first peeling gear; a third peeling gear that com...