ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,863, issued on June 3, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasonic joining apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Ichinose (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an ultrasonic joining apparatus according to the present disclosure, an ultrasonic joining apparatus control board controls an operation of a lead set unit and a tension adjustment unit including a dancer roller to perform joining tension control processing. The joining tension control processing includes steps of: making a lead wire housing mechanism perform a rewinding driving of rewinding a lead wire in a lead cassette when the dancer roller reaches a lower limit adjust...