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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2016
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Masashi Matsumori, Osaka, JP;
Takashi Nakamura, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A tape feeder (part feeding device) includes a main body including a transporting passage for guiding a part feeding tape to a part removing position, a conveyor for positioning a storage of the part feeding tape which is inserted to the transporting passage to the part removing position, and a part detector for detecting the part stored in the storage in the transporting passage at the upstream side of the part removing position. The transporting passage includes a travelling surface for supporting the part feeding tape from underneath, a pair of side guides for guiding two side surfaces of the part feeding tape, and a squeezed portion in which a distance between the pair of side guides is gradually reduced from the upstream side of the part detector toward a part detecting position of the part detector.