US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Nov. 3 for "Carrier tape" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,519, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Carrier tape" was invented by Yasuhiro Shimizu (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier tap has a belt shape and includes material forming layers laminated in a lamination direction, a front surface and a back surface opposed to each other in a height direction corresponding to the lamination direction, and accommodating portions that each accommodate a component. The accommodating portions are each adjacent to the front surface and each aligned along a length direction with a partition wall interposed therebetween. The partition w...