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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2013
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Nidec Copal Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Kawaguchi, Yamanashi, JP;
Shigekazu Yoneyama, Yamanashi, JP;
Tatsuo Yamamura, Fukuoka, JP;
Kazunori Kanai, Yamanashi, JP;
Yuuki Nakada, Saitama, JP;
Kiyoshi Tanaka, Saitama, JP;
Toshiaki Numata, Saitama, JP;
PANASONIC CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A gear unitincludes: a sprocketincluding pinsprovided on a periphery thereof and a final gear; and one or more transmission gears disposed between a drive motorand the final gear. The pinsengage with feed holes provided at equal pitches in a carrier tape. A sensorwhich detects an angle is provided to face a transmission gear, of the one or more transmission gears, of which a rotation ratio to the final gearis 1:N (N is a positive integer).