Patent ID: 6293404
Filing Date: 2001-09-25
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
A tape for accommodating microchips comprising: a longitudinal strip having a plurality of sets of a plurality of more than three pockets in each set for holding a microchip in each pocket, each set of said pockets being provided by said strip having longitudinal end walls, transverse side walls and bottom walls joined to the end walls and side walls surrounding each pocket and recess means in said walls at corner junctions between adjacent end walls and side walls except one of the pockets, said recess means comprising only one recess open to each pocket, said recess located in only one side wall of each pocket at the corner junction of the one side wall and adjacent end wall, said recess extended outwardly from the pocket in different corner junctions of the more than three pockets in each set of pockets, said bottom walls having extensions located at the bottoms of all of said recesses, said extensions being operable to inhibit nesting of the end walls and side walls into superimposed sets of pockets when the tape is wound on a reel.