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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2020
Disco Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Yoshimura, Tokyo, JP;
DISCO CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tape mounter includes at least two storage units storing respective tape sets therein, a reader for reading information of the tape sets stored in the respective storage units from RFIDs attached to tubes around which the tape sets are wound as tape rolls, the storage units having shafts inserted in the tubes and being disposed such that they are spaced from the reader by respective different distances, a time measuring unit for measuring reading times spent until the reader receives radio waves generated and transmitted by the RFIDs and reads the information of the tape sets represented by the radio waves, a mapping table containing positions of the storage units corresponding to the respective reading times, and a recognizing section for checking the reading times against the mapping table, and recognizing the positions of the storage units and types of the tape sets.