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US 2018/0242484 A1Published application
Component quantity system for electronic component tape reels
OwnerDouglas Robinsoninventor
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An improved electronic component holder of the type having a reel of tape, wherein the tape has a back side, a front side, and may include small wells evenly spaced from each other and containing electronic components The improvement includes markings on one of the back side and the front side of the reel of tape containing the electronic components with a scale that will ultimately determine an amount of electronic components left on the reel of tape. The markings may include a means of determining quantity of components on a tape or length of tape by automatic identification or machine vision. The markings may be applied to tapes on reels containing components or to each piece of the component tape assembly, for example the cover tape or component tape, individually such as in a tape pre-print assembly on a newly manufactured cover tape reel.
An improved electronic component holder of the type having a reel of tape, wherein the tape has a back side, a front side, and small wells evenly spaced-apart from each other and containing electronic components so as to make it easy for a machine to remove the electronic components from the reel of tape and insert the electronic components onto an electronic component, or a method of affixing electronic components to the tape without the need for wells such as passive components, wherein said improvement comprises:
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