US Patent Issued to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI on March 11 for "Rotary mounting head and component mounting machine" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,775, issued on March 11, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).

"Rotary mounting head and component mounting machine" was invented by Shingo Yamazaki (Iwata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of driven gears respectively provided on the plurality of nozzle shafts are arranged along the peripheral edges of the drive gears and engaged with the drive gears. Accordingly, the plurality of shafts can be turned by turning the drive gears. Moreover, since the turning of the drive gears, which are scissors gears, is transmitted to the nozzle shafts by the engagement of the drive gears and the plurality of respec...