Tape winder and method of processing tape
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsKyouhisa Uchiumi, Kouichi Nakatogawa
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Abstract
A tape winder includes: a hub, around which a tape is wound overlappingly and which forms a tape roll on the hub; a first guide roller, defining the position of feeding of the tape into the tape roll being formed on the hub while pressing an outer peripheral surface of the tape roll; and a moving mechanism, moving the first guide roller away from the rotation axis of the hub as the tape roll increases in diameter. A rotation axis of the first guide roller is positioned along a normal to a reference surface and the rotation axis of the hub intersects the rotation axis of the first guide roller at an angle θ. The tape is processed to provide winding curl to the tape through winding the tape on a tapered hub with inclination and a heat treatment to fix the winding curl.
Claims13
A tape winder comprising:
- a hub for winding a tape to form a tape roll on an outer peripheral surface thereof;
- a first guide roller for defining a position where the tape is fed onto the tape roll while pressing an outer peripheral surface of the tape roll;
- and
- a first moving mechanism for moving the first guide roller away from the rotation axis of the hub as the tape roll increases in diameter;
- wherein
- a rotation axis of the hub intersects the rotation axis of the first guide roller at an angle θ.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.