Patents by Inventor Tadanobu Higashida

Tadanobu Higashida 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: 8328498
    Abstract: In stacking tray supplying for receiving in a stacked state a plurality of trays that are received in a state in which components to be mounted onto a board are aligned, two tray stages are provided rotationally transferably on a concentric circle. In a state in which one is positioned in a feeding tray placement position and the other is positioned in a standby tray placement position, components are fed from the tray stage positioned in the feeding tray placement position. When a component depletion state occurs, the tray stages are rotationally transferred to switchover the mutual placement positions, by which waste of time required to feed components is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tadanobu Higashida
  • Publication number: 20120110841
    Abstract: A challenge to be met by the present invention is to feed a carrier tape with superior positional accuracy by means of a simple, inexpensive configuration, thereby enhancing punching accuracy of a component and implementing highly reliable component mounting. A carrier tape feeder that feeds a carrier tape (11), to thus feed and position a component (10) to be punched next to a component pickup section (23) is built from a positioning feed roller (25) including sprocket wheels (61) that feed the carrier tape (11) by causing sprocket holes (13) formed in the carrier tape (11) to engage with teeth (62) and rotating the sprocket wheels and a support wheel section (63) around which there is wound at least a neighborhood of the sprocket holes (13) of the carrier tape (11) in a widthwise direction thereof, to thus support the carrier tape 811); and a rotation device (65) that rotationally drives the positioning feed roller (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syozo Kadota, Akira Yamada, Tadanobu Higashida, Minoru Kitani
  • Publication number: 20100014948
    Abstract: In stacking tray supplying for receiving in a stacked state a plurality of trays that are received in a state in which components to be mounted onto a board are aligned, two tray stages are provided rotationally transferably on a concentric circle. In a state in which one is positioned in a feeding tray placement position and the other is positioned in a standby tray placement position, components are fed from the tray stage positioned in the feeding tray placement position. When a component depletion state occurs, the tray stages are rotationally transferred to switchover the mutual placement positions, by which waste of time required to component feeding is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tadanobu Higashida