Patent ID: 7021467

Claim:
A carrier tape comprising: a main body having a thickness; plural content pockets arranged on one side of the main body at equal intervals in a longitudinal direction of the main body to contain goods, wherein the plural content pockets have openings on the same level as a surface of the main body and bottoms, and have depths greater than the thickness of the main body; and plural dummy pockets arranged on the one side of the main body in the longitudinal direction of the main body, wherein the plural dummy pockets have openings and bottoms, and wherein the plural dummy pockets extend away from the main body no less than the plural content pockets, wherein a dimension of an opening in the longitudinal direction of the main body of each of said dummy pockets is different than a dimension of an opening in the longitudinal direction of the main body of each of said content pockets, and wherein the dummy pockets are shaped and dimensioned relative to the plural content pockets such that when one of the dummy pockets is centered over one of the plural content pockets, the one of the dummy pockets does not invade into the one of the plural content pockets.