US Patent Issued to ADVANTEST on March 24 for "Heater drive controlling apparatus, electronic component handling apparatus, electronic component testing apparatus, and heater drive controlling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,956, issued on March 24, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heater drive controlling apparatus, electronic component handling apparatus, electronic component testing apparatus, and heater drive controlling method" was invented by Takuro Ashizawa (Tokyo), Hirotaka Sasaki (Tokyo) and Keisuke Nitta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater drive controlling apparatus for an electronic component testing apparatus includes a breaker disposed between a power source and heaters, and a controller that controls electric currents supplied from the power source to the heaters in order according to a first priority set for the heate...