US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 1 for "Component mounting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,137, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Component mounting device" was invented by Hiroaki Kato (Fukuoka, Japan), Yoshinori Isobata (Fukuoka, Japan), Yasuyuki Ishitani (Osaka, Japan), Nobuyuki Kakishima (Yamanashi, Japan) and Ryota Inoue (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component mounting device of the present disclosure is provided with a tape feeder and a mounting head, the component mounting device including: housing cassette (22B) that stores a roll body of a carrier tape and allows the roll body to be taken in and out through an opening; and r...