Patent ID: 7059476

Claim:
A tray for electronic parts comprising: a substantially rectangular table-like flat portion constituting a principal portion of the tray; a plurality of pockets, each of which comprises a rectangular recessed portion formed in said table-like flat portion so as to be adapted to the size of a range occupied by ball terminals provided on the bottom of the package of electronic parts to be housed therein and which are arranged in the form of a matrix; a side-wall-like edge portion which is formed on the bottom side of a peripheral edge portion of said table-like flat portion so as to support thereon the peripheral edge portion of said table-like flat portion; a cut-out portion which is formed by cutting out a part of said side-wall-like edge portion so as to engage a carrying pawl of a carrying mechanism for carrying the tray; a cut-out corner portion which is formed by cutting out one of four corner portions of said table-like flat portion in order to align the respective trays when the plurality of trays are sequentially engaged with each other to be stacked up; engaging first-shaped protrusions, each of which has a first shape and which are formed around each of alternate pockets in row and column directions, of said plurality of pockets formed in the form of the matrix, so as to be adapted to the size of a corresponding one of said electronic parts to be housed; and engaging second-shaped protrusions, each of which has a second shape and which are formed around each of pockets, around which said engaging first-shaped protrusions are not provided, so as to be adapted to the size of a corresponding one of said electronic parts to be housed, so as to engage said engaging first-shaped protrusions when said table-like flat portion of the tray faces the table-like flat portion of another tray to be stacked up.