Patent ID: 6428888
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: B65D,C09J,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
A connection tape for square hole-punched carrier tapes used to connect ends of square hole-punched carrier tapes each comprising a carrier tape formed with a plurality of sprocket holes along a lateral edge thereof and top and bottom cover tapes respectively adhered to top and bottom surfaces of the carrier tape, without obstructing the sprocket holes,which connection tape comprises a base tape whose top surface is subjected to a mold release treatment and which is provided with a slit extending approximately in a middle thereof and dividing the tape in half in the longitudinal direction, an adhesive tape whose bottom surface is an adhesive surface and which is adhered on the top surface of the base tape by the adhesive surface, and a protection tape whose bottom surface is an adhesive surface and which is adhered on the top surfaces of the base tape and the adhesive tape by the adhesive surface, wherein at least the protection tape has a fold line which divides its width in half, wherein the adhesive tape comprises a first adhesive tape which can adhere to the top cover tape, a second adhesive tape which can adhere over the top of the sprocket holes in the carrier tape without interfering with the top cover tape, and a third adhesive tape which can adhere to the bottom cover tape, the first adhesive tape and the second adhesive tape being disposed in a first half as sectioned by the fold line, with the second adhesive tape being closer to the fold line, and the third adhesive tape locating in line symmetry with the first adhesive tape about the fold line, at least the second adhesive tape including a plurality of sprocket holes whose pitch and diameter is the same as that of the sprocket holes in the square hole-punched carrier tape.