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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:
Nov. 24, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
414797 ; 414749 ; 901 40 ; 294 655 ;
Abstract
A device for picking up, via suction, a lead frame from a lead frame magazine and placing it on a guide rail so that the lead frame is fed to a bonding machine. This device includes a plurality of lead frame suction nozzles disposed in at least two parallel rows such that one row of the two parallel rows of the lead frame suction nozzles is movable toward and away from an other row of the lead frame suction nozzles. In addition, the lead frame suction nozzles in each of the two rows can be moved closer to and away from each other within each of the rows.