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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7399657 | Ball grid array packages with thermally conductive containers Ball grid array packages for semiconductor die include a thermally conductive container and a substrate that substantially enclose a semiconductor die. The die is positioned with respect to the container by thermally conductive supports formed in the container or at... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7395932 | Carrier tape for electronic components A carrier tape for electrical components is provided comprising a tape having a length and a plurality of cavities along the length of the tape. Each cavity comprises inner side walls and a bottom surface and is capable of containing an electrical component. ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7389877 | Apparatus for packaging electronic components including a reel entrained with desiccating material An apparatus for packaging electronic components, particularly integrated circuits, which includes a carrier tape into or on which the integrated circuits can be secured, a packing reel, to which is secured the carrier tape, wherein one or more components of the pac... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7258703 | Apparatus and method for aligning devices on carriers An apparatus and method are provided for aligning a plurality of semiconductor devices placed on a carrier. Alignment guides are located adjacent to each device in use, and arranged such that they correspond to a desired alignment of each semiconductor device. For a... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7228622 | Electronic device carrier and manufacture tape A method and machine-readable medium are described for a flexible tape constructed of a material suitable to convey electronic devices through an entire manufacturing process without removing the electronic packages from the tape. According to one embodiment, part r... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222737 | Die sorter with reduced mean time to convert An adapter frame has channels that hold multiple die carriers in each channel. The die carriers, such as 2″×2″ or 4″×4″ waffle packs or GEL-PAK die carriers, slide into the channels and are secured by a spring clip retention mechanism. In other embodiments... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7219803 | Carrier tape for disk components A carrier tape for holding a plurality of disks includes a thin, elongate strip of polymer material presenting a longitudinal axis and having a plurality of pockets defined therein. Each pocket is adapted to receive a separate one of the disks. The pockets are space... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7204068 | Packaging system with a tool for enclosing electronic components and method of populating a carrier tape The invention relates to a packaging system having a tool for inserting electronic components into a carrier tape, which has passage openings. The tool has a pick-up device to pick up the components from a carrier film and position them in the passage openings by me... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7171965 | Breath actuated dry powder inhaler and tape dose strip A dose tape for use in a dry powder inhaler has blisters formed in a formpack layer. A lidstock layer is attached over the formpack layer, to seal a dose of dry powder within each of the blisters. A tear strip is attached to the lidstock layer over each of the blist... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7168562 | Roll container with presser plates A container for a long electrode sheet for electric double layer capacitor includes a cover closing the opening of the container body, a sealing member sealing a gap between the container body and the cover, a stem fixed to either the container body or the cover so ... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7112305 | Automation-optimized microarray package A method and system for economically packaging microarrays into sealed reaction chambers and storage vessels. A pocket strip is manufactured as a linear sequence of pockets, or wells, into which microarrays are positioned. A cover strip is then heat sealed to the up... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7097900 | Sheet and electronic component packaging container In order to prevent static electricity impairment of an electronic component, a layer at the surface of a container to be in contact with an electronic component is one having a relatively high surface resistivity, a layer having a higher electrical conductivity tha... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7056769 | Method of manufacturing an electronic device The existing IC cards have a disadvantage of difficulty of mass production because an IC chip is supplied on a substrate one at a time. The present invention provides a method of manufacturing by placing a positioning jig having a plurality of openings each of which... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7014896 | Packaging container for electronic part An electronic component packaging container which comprises a multilayer polyester sheet having a base layer comprising a polyethylene terephthalate type resin and a polycarbonate type resin and a surface layer comprising a polycarbonate type resin, formed on at lea... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7004325 | Resin-molded package with cavity structure A package includes: a substrate having a ridged peripheral portion and a center portion defined by and lower in level than the ridged peripheral portion. A semiconductor chip is mounted on the center portion. A plurality of lead is electrically coupled to the semico... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6975026 | Package for mounting semiconductor device A package for mounting a semiconductor device has a surface exposed to an atmosphere. The exposed surface is covered with a covering material such as a paint, a tape or a seal. ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6966440 | Tape-packaged headed pin contact A non-intrusive surface mount interconnect that provides a through-hole interconnect to the opposite side of a PCB board. A headed pin (head up/shank down) can be picked by standard placement equipment from a specially configured pocket tape using a hole that is tig... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6945406 | Tape carrier package film A tape carrier package (TCP) film for use with liquid crystal displays. The tape carrier package (TCP) film includes depressions and punch holes that enable fast, efficient separation of a tape carrier part, which includes driving integrated circuits, from a periphe... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6938783 | Carrier tape A carrier structure comprises a carrier base which is not thermally deformable and a portion of which is also transparent to electromagnetic radiation. An adhesive layer is disposed on a surface of the carrier base. Semiconductor chips or other items adhere to the a... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6860391 | Apparatus and method for storing an electronic component, method for packaging electronic components and method for mounting an electronic component An apparatus for storing an electronic component, the electronic component having a first surface and an opposite second surface, the apparatus includes a first film having a pocket that stores the electronic component and wherein the pocket has a protrusion at a bo... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6783001 | Magazine with a magazine strip for a screwdriver A magazine for a screwdriver. The magazine is provided with a magazine strip used to store screws which can be successively inserted into and extracted from an object. The magazine strip has a central web and a flange running along each edge. The magazine has a guid... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6698591 | Connector modules designed to be positioned on belts A connector module designed to be positioned on a carrying belt is disclosed. The module includes pins 30 for engaging in holes made on the carrying belt. The module and carrying belt assembly is designed to be used in a machine for automatically wiring c... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6681937 | Packing tape composition and packing method using the packing tape composition Receiving pockets are formed by folding open-top box-like structures from paper. The structures are affixed in registration with holes in a tape substrate to receive objects to be packed therein. After the objects are packed, a covering tape is added to s... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6568535 | Apparatus and methods for improving uniform cover tape adhesion on a carrier tape Apparatus and methods are presented herein for uniformly sealing and peeling a cover tape to/from a carrier tape. The carrier tapes of the present invention include surface transitions that minimizes/eliminates surface irregularities and distortions such ... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6554137 | Device and method for protecting electronic component A ring-shaped device is provided for protecting an electrostatic discharge sensitive electronic component. The protective device has a thin film support structure, adhesive material for securing the support structure to the leads of the electronic compone... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6547076 | Apparatus and methods for improving uniform cover tape adhesion on a carrier tape Apparatus and methods are presented herein for uniformly sealing and peeling a cover tape to/from a carrier tape. The carrier tapes of the present invention include surface transitions that minimize/eliminates surface irregularities and distortions such t... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6545754 | Post-seal inspection system and method A system for inspection components that are sealed within tape is provided. The system includes a light source that can illuminate the components through a tape layer. A polarizer is used to polarize light from the light source, the components, and the ta... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6543711 | Damper continuous feeding body A damper continuous feeding body having a plurality of punched out dampers, each of which is constituted by a viscoelastic body and a restraint body which are laminated on each other, wherein surfaces of the viscoelastic bodies are pasted on a release sur... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6540086 | Protective cover tape having a foam layer Apparatus and methods are presented herein for protecting electronic components from damage during transport or "drop testing." A packaging system of the present invention includes a novel cover tape bonded to a carrier tape, which cover tape includes a f... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6467627 | High density tape carrier system and method of operation A flexible carrier tape system, suitable for housing components and for winding on a reel in high density, is disclosed, comprising an elongated base strip having a plurality of longitudinally spaced cavities with side walls having a step-like groove near... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6425484 | Tape-shaped parts package, parts storing tape, tape-shaped cover and parts packaging apparatus In a parts storing tape, a first stepped part which has the predetermined height and is more extended than the other inner side faces of a recessed part in the width direction and the longitudinal direction of the above parts storing tape is provided at e... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6404181 | Parts container, method of inspecting parts using same, and apparatus therefor A component engagement member (7, 27) is provided at an opening part of a container having a storage recess (5, 25) for storing a component (10, 30). The component engagement member is releasably engaged with at least a part of an upper face of the compon... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6396578 | Post-seal inspection system and method A system for inspection components that are sealed within tape is provided. The system includes a light source that can illuminate the components through a tape layer. A polarizer is used to polarize light from the light source, the components, and the ta... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6389672 | Component assembling method and component assembling apparatus Components (62-65) are consecutively taken out from a plurality of component feeders (52) which supply a multiplicity of components to a component feeding position (52a) in succession, transferred to a prescribed assembling position (54a, 154a, 157a), and... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6332536 | Component tape including a printed component count A component tape includes a carrier tape with an elongate cover tape applied over pockets of the carrier tape. The component tape includes information printed on a portion of the component tape. The printed information includes a count or quantity of elec... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6332539 | Part retainer for holding a part The present invention is a part retainer for housing and retaining various electronic and mechanical parts wherein a retaining unit has an engaging piece that stably stops at both a position at which it protrudes toward the opening of a part housing space... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6244899 | Continuous carrier to SMT pins A plurality of discrete SMT pins are carried in bandoleer fashion. Each SMT pin has a base formed on its underside with solder flux vapor venting channels and a shaft with a longitudinal axis connected to the base. A consecutive series of identical pin ho... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6216419 | Tape-shaped parts package, parts storing tape, tape-shaped cover and parts packaging apparatus In a parts storing tape, a first stepped part which has the predetermined height and is more extended than the other inner side faces of a recessed part in the width direction and the longitudinal direction of the above parts storing tape is provided at e... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6202853 | Secondary processing for electrical or mechanical components molded to continuous carrier supports A new continuous carrier for surface mount or other electrical or mechanical parts, and a method of fabricating same, formed by molding one or a pair of continuous flexible film strips to a side or sides of a series of desired electrical or mechanical com... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6182828 | Reel tape for provisionally supporting a bare chip A reel tape includes a base tape for reel winding, a chip mounting section on the base tape, on which a bare chip is to be mounted and an adhesive layer coated on the chip mounting section. The bare chip is provisionally bonded to the chip mounting sectio... | 02/06/2001 |
