Patents by Inventor Souhei Tanaka

Souhei Tanaka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4327482
    Abstract: An electronic parts mounting apparatus using a band carrier for feeding electronic parts incrementally, the carrier being a strip having many recesses disposed at equal intervals each holding an electronic part and a tape covering the recesses. The apparatus has a support for horizontally supporting the carrier with the coating tape on the top side, a separator for separating the tape from the carrier; and a pick up device for picking up the electronic parts one-by-one from the recesses in the carrier and carrying the electronic parts and placing them in position on a circuit board for continuously and stably mounting the electronic parts on the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Araki, Yasuo Taki, Kazuhiro Mori, Yoshihiko Misawa, Souhei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4290732
    Abstract: An apparatus for carrying electronic components from a supply position to an electronic circuit board or the like and placing the electronic components on the electronic circuit board or the like, which has a rod provided at its tip end with a suction tool for picking up components to be carried and which is connected with an air suction apparatus; a body frame supporting the rod for movement of the rod in the vertical and horizontal directions; two pairs of position regulating pawls which are movably supported on the rod and are supported for freely opening and closing to grasp the components from different directions which the components are held by the suction tool and positioning them; and an arrangement for opening and closing the position regulating pawls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1981
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Taki, Shigeru Araki, Kazuhiro Mori, Yoshihiko Misawa, Souhei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 4239576
    Abstract: A process for mounting electronic parts of very small size on electronic circuit boards or substrates, in which the substrates are maintained in predetermined relative positions, and a dispenser unit dispensing a bonding material for bonding the electronic parts to each of the substrates, a mounting unit mounting the electronic parts on each of the substrates, and/or an inspecting unit inspecting the position and/or the electrical properties of the electronic parts mounted on each of the substrates are disposed in the same relative positions as those of the substrates to carry out their individual functions on the associated substrates, so that the electronic parts can be efficiently and rationally mounted on the substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1980
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Taki, Yoshihiko Misawa, Shigeru Araki, Kazuhiro Mori, Souhei Tanaka