IP Library Granted Patent US 7,480,986
Granted Patent B2
US 7,480,986 · App. 11/367,095 · Granted Jan 27, 2009

Apparatus for feeding components from packaged component band

Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.; Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 7,480,986
App. No.
11/367,095
Granted
Jan 27, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus for feeding components from a packaged component band includes a stand defining a platform allowing the packaged component band passing therealong, a first guiding unit installable to the stand beside the platform, and a second guiding unit installable to the stand next to the another end of the platform. The first guiding unit is urged to remove a package from the packaged component band to expose components at one end of the platform and guides the package toward another end of the platform. The second guiding unit accepts the package from the first guiding unit and accelerates movement of the package passing therethrough. The second guiding unit includes a first friction pulley urged to rotate, and a second friction pulley rotatably movable together with the first friction pulley and engagable with the package when the package engagably passes therethrough.

Claims (13)

1. An apparatus for feeding components to be further processed from a packaged component band, comprising:

a stand defining a platform to allow a packaged component band passing along said platform;

a first guiding unit installable to said stand beside said platform, and capable of urging removal of a package from said packaged component band to expose components in said packaged component band at one end of said platform, and guiding said package toward another end of said platform; and

a second guiding unit installable to said stand next to said another end of said platform, and capable of accepting said package from said first guiding unit and farther accelerating movement of said package passing therethrough by means of an accelerating way of said second guiding unit applicable on said packaged component band,

wherein said second guiding unit comprising a first friction pulley urged to rotate via movement of said packaged component band when said packaged component band passes therethrough, and a second friction pulley rotatably movable together with said first friction pulley and engagable with said package when said package engagably passes therethrough.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a limiting member is installed beside said second guiding unit so as to urge abuttal of said package against said second guiding unit.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein a diameter of said second friction pulley is larger than that of said first friction pulley.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein two silica-gel rings having large friction coefficient ring said first friction pulley and said second friction pulley respectively.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a mounting plate extending from said platform, with said first friction pulley being mounted thereto.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5 , wherein said second friction pulley is mounted to an outer surface of said first friction pulley.

7. The apparatus as claimed in claim 6 , wherein a first separator is fixed between said first friction pulley and said second friction pulley.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7 , wherein a second separator is fixed to an outer surface of said second friction pulley.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5 , further comprising a restriction member rotatably mounted to said mounting plate via a torsion spring, said restriction member comprises a body urging abuttal of said packaged component band against said first friction pulley.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2008
From: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
To: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD.; HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 021961/0714 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 3, 2006
From: ZENG, ZHAO-LUE; KUNG, HSUAN-JEN; LIN, YUAN-CHIU
To: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 017643/0645 →
Priority Claims (2)
CN 2005 2 0055502 U · Mar 4, 2005 · national
CN 2005 2 0145515 U · Dec 3, 2005 · national
Continuity (1)
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