US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 17 for "Component supply apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,631, issued on March 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Component supply apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Kawaguchi (Yamanashi, Japan), Yoshinori Isobata (Fukuoka, Japan), Kazunari Mishima (Fukuoka, Japan), Tatsuo Yamamura (Fukuoka, Japan) and Kunimi Tsuzurugi (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component supply apparatus includes a tape conveying path that includes, both on an upstream side thereof: a first conveying route into which a carrier tape is inserted; and a second conveying route that is positioned under the first conveying route, the first conveying rou...