Patent ID: 6269860
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: H05K,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A top-cover-tape feeding apparatus for feeding a top cover tape peeled from an electric-component tape which additionally includes a carrier tape having a plurality of pockets which are formed in a lengthwise direction of the carrier tape, which accommodate a plurality of electric components, respectively, and whose respective upper openings are closed with the top cover tape, the apparatus comprising:a pair of tape-feed rotatable members which are rotatable about respective axis lines parallel to each other and whose respective outer circumferential surfaces cooperate with each other to pinch the top cover tape peeled from the electric-component tape;a rotary drive device which rotates at least one of the two tape-feed rotatable members;at least one of the two tape-feed rotatable members having a scraper groove which is formed in the entire outer circumferential surface thereof, in an intermediate portion thereof in an axial direction thereof parallel to the two axis lines; andat least one scraper which is provided on at least an outlet side of the two tape-feed rotatable members in a tape-feed direction in which the top cover tape is fed, such that a portion of the scraper is fitted in a portion of the scraper groove that corresponds to a position where the respective outer circumferential surfaces of the two rotatable members pinch the top cover tape, so that the scraper prevents the top cover tape from clinging to said at least one of the two rotatable members.