ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,616, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Tape loading device" was invented by Kazumi Hoshikawa (Toyohashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape loading device includes a feeder holding stand configured to hold a feeder, an acquisition section configured to acquire identification information of the feeder held by the feeder holding stand identification information of a reel on which a carrier tape accommodating multiple components is wound, a loading section configured to load the carrier tape unwound from the reel into the feeder, and a control device configured to control an operation of the loadin...