ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,718, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Feeder magazine and component mounting machine" was invented by Norio Hosoi (Chiryu, Japan) and Keita Tanaka (Takahama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeder magazine includes a ceiling portion, a bottom portion, and a back portion. Multiple support grooves are formed in the ceiling portion so as to extend in parallel to each other from an opening portion toward the back portion, and into which upper end portions of the feeders are detachably inserted. A flat surface is formed on the bottom portion so as to face the multiple support grooves of the ceiling po...