Patent ID: 6364567
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
A tape connecting member for connecting respective one end portions of a first electric-component carrier tape and a second electric-component carrier tape, to each other, each of the first and second carrier tapes having, in a widthwise middle portion thereof, a plurality of electric-component accommodating pockets arranged in a lengthwise direction thereof, and having, in one of widthwise opposite end portions thereof, a plurality of tape-feed holes arranged in the lengthwise direction, each of the electric-component accommodating pockets accommodating an electric component therein, the tape connecting member comprising:an elongate flat main portion which has a length greater than a width thereof and has three tape-feed holes arranged at a pitch in a lengthwise direction thereof such that in a state in which the tape connecting member connects the respective one end portions of the first and second carrier tapes to each other, at least one first tape-feed hole of the three tape-feed holes is aligned with at least one of the tape-feed holes of the first carrier tape and at least one second tape-feed hole of the three tape-feed holes is aligned with at least one of the tape-feed holes of the second carrier tape; and a plurality of flat caulking projections which project from the elongate flat main portion in a direction perpendicular thereto such that the flat caulking projections are distant from each other in the lengthwise direction of the elongate flat main portion and a direction of thickness of each of the flat caulking projections is parallel to the lengthwise direction thereof.