US 11,856,704 B2
Tape auto-loading device and tape linking method therefor
Satoshi Imanishi, Okazaki (JP); Kazushi Nonoyama, Toyota (JP); Daisuke Suzuki, Chiryu (JP); and Masami Kawabata, Okazaki (JP)
Assigned to FUJI CORPORATION, Chiryu (JP)
Appl. No. 16/977,196
Filed by FUJI CORPORATION, Chiryu (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 21, 2018, PCT No. PCT/JP2018/011238
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 1, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/180858, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0007252 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. H05K 13/02 (2006.01); B65H 19/10 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 13/021 (2013.01) [B65H 19/102 (2013.01); H05K 13/0215 (2018.08)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tape auto-loading device for loading a carrier tape in a tape feeder in which a cover tape is peeled off from a base tape of the carrier tape and the cover tape so peeled off is discharged therefrom along a predetermined path, the tape auto-loading device comprising:
a temporary tape laying device configured to lay a temporary tape along a path following the predetermined path and hold the temporary tape in position;
a cover tape gripping device configured to grip a distal end of the cover tape which is peeled off from the base tape;
a linking device configured to link the temporary tape held by the temporary tape laying device to a distal end portion of the cover tape gripped by the cover tape gripping device; and
a transfer device configured to transfer the temporary tape linked to the distal end portion of the cover tape from the temporary tape laying device to the tape feeder,
wherein the linking device comprises:
a tape support member configured to support the distal end portion of the cover tape and the temporary tape in such a state that the distal end portion of the cover tape and the temporary tape overlap each other; and
a heating member configured to heat-bond the cover tape and the temporary tape together by pinching a predetermined portion where the distal end portion of the cover tape and the temporary tape overlap each other, the heat-bonding being performed between the tape support member and the heating member; and
wherein the tape support member and the heating member have respective shapes for pinching the predetermined portion in such a state of the predetermined portion being bent at a halfway position along a length in a tape's longitudinal direction.