ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,528, issued on March 17, was assigned to Techno Olympus Co. LTD. (Nissin, Japan).
"Tape material applicator and computer program" was invented by Minoru Takeuchi (Nissin, Japan), Hiromoto Ito (Nissin, Japan) and Yusuke Tanaka (Nissin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a tape material applicator and computer program capable of applying relatively short tape materials and reducing the difficulty in tape application. The tape material applicator unit (60), mounted on the sixth axis of a robot, includes a disc-shaped member (50) and a roller swing mechanism (80). The tape material clamping device (200), attache...