Patent ID: 7303064

Claim:
A feeder belt for strip-shaped parts used to feed the strip-shaped parts in an in-line process in which various processes such as plating, deflashing, or other processes for manufacturing semiconductors or other articles at industrial scale, the feeder belt comprising: a belt body; and a plurality of fingers, the fingers being independently manufactured and installed to the belt body at regular pitches, wherein the belt body has installation holes for coupling installation parts and supporting and fixing parts of the fingers, and openings formed at lower sides of the installation holes into which gripping parts of the fingers are movably inserted, and wherein each finger comprises the installation part, a coupling recess, the supporting and fixing part, a pivot hinge, and the gripping part, the installation part formed at the end of the finger, the supporting and fixing part adjacent to the installation part and coupled with the installation hole by a part of the supporting and fixing part to elastically support the belt body and the finger, the coupling recess formed between the installation part and the supporting and fixing part and inserted into the installation hole of the belt body, the pivot hinge being spring-shaped and having a diameter greater than a diameter of the supporting and fixing part, the pivot hinge being adjacent to the supporting and fixing part, the pivot hinge being for transmitting an elastic gripping force to the gripping part and serving as a hinge, and the gripping part adjacent to the pivot hinge and formed by bending the end of the finger to be inserted into the opening of the belt body.