Patent ID: 7097040
Filing Date: 2006-08-29
Classification: B65D,H05K,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for altering an adhesion level used to retain a component within one or more individual compartments of a continuous adhesive backed carrier tape, the method comprising the steps of: a. obtaining a continuous carrier tape of a given thickness and having a top side, a bottom side, and a multiplicity of individual separated compartments formed therein each extending from the top side to the bottom side and adhering a continuous UV-sensitive adhesive tape to the bottom side so that the continuous UV-sensitive adhesive tape covers the bottom of each of the compartments, the UV-sensitive adhesive tape having a first adhesion level of sufficient strength to cause the UV-sensitive adhesive tape to be firmly adhered to the bottom of the continuous carrier tape; and b. subjecting said top side of said continuous carrier tape to a controlled amount of ultraviolet radiation so that only that portion of the UV-sensitive adhesive tape within each compartment is irradiated while the portion of the UV-sensitive adhesive tape which is affixed to the carrier tape is shielded from the ultraviolet radiation, to thereby reduce the adhesion level of the UV-sensitive adhesive tape within each compartment to a second lower level of adhesion.