ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,137, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OHASHI ENGINEERING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Tape adhering apparatus" was invented by Hisayoshi Kashitani (Tokyo), Akira Tomita (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Kondo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape adhering apparatus is provided for attaching an anisotropic conductive tape to a workpiece with uniform length. In the tape adhering apparatus (1), a a conveying unit (30) intermittently performs an operation of conveying a tape member (T) by a length obtained by adding a gap length (L2) to a predetermined length (L1), and a cutting unit (10) includes a blade holding unit (12) that holds a downstream cuttin...