US Patent Issued to TOHOKU-MICROTEC on Nov. 4 for "Micro-element, alignment system and assembling method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,078, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TOHOKU-MICROTEC Co. LTD. (Sendai, Japan).

"Micro-element, alignment system and assembling method" was invented by Makoto Motoyoshi (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment system arranges a plurality of micro-elements at positions on a mounting substrate, the micro-elements are equal in dimension and shape. The alignment system encompasses a rough alignment-apparatus including a picker having capturing-probes, each of which having a capturing-face and a magnetic-force applying portion provided on the capturing-face, and a base-plate on which the capturing-probes are arrayed with...