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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 1997
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1993
Jon C Houghton, Auburn, WA (US);
Chester H Petry, Jr, Tigard, OR (US);
Byers Industries, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
A TAB carrier for film-mounted integrated circuits comprises a body member having a rectangular cavity for receiving a TAB segment of a flexible film strip and a retainer member shaped and sized to fit conformably within the cavity, each integrally molded of a resilient polymeric material. A fully automated TAB framer includes a pair of vertically-oriented pneumatic rams having vacuum operated pick up heads on the lower ends thereof. A cutting assembly cuts TAB segments from the film strip. The rams are laterally shiftable between two positions for picking up TAB segments, placing a segment in a carrier body, picking up a retainer member and inserting the retainer member into the carrier body thereby forming a framed TAB segment.