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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patrick J Masterton, Carol Stream, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198390 ; 198953 ;
Abstract
Orienting air-wound coils for placement by an automatic pick-and-place machine has been a problem for small electronic coils. Extracting damaged or deformed coils on a one-by-one basis is expensive and time-consuming. A feeder for air-wound coils uses a rod (101), a track (103), and a two-segment guide (105, 107) and has built-in mechanisms for rejecting damaged coils while feeding undamaged coils (111, 113) in the proper orientation to a pick-and-place machine.