US Patent Issued to APTIV MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT SERVICES on July 7 for "Taping head" (Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,252, issued on July 7, was assigned to APTIV MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT SERVICES GMBH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Taping head" was invented by Jose Lopes Carrolo Nuno (Lisbon, Portugal), Qiu Jianliang (Lisbon, Portugal), Marco Ruben Medeiros Ferreira da Silva (Odivelas, Portugal) and Miguel Sousa Borges Monteiro Pires (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A taping head for taping a wire harness with tape of a tape roll includes a base body and a rotatable tape dispenser with a mouth and mandrel for receiving the tape roll. The tape dispenser is configured to rotate the tape roll and is mounted to the base body by means of a...