Patent ID: 7654392

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, wherein the plural dummy pockets extend away from the main body no less than the plural content pockets, wherein the dummy pockets are dimensioned such that when one of the dummy pockets is positioned over one of the plural content pockets, at least one portion of an outer surface of the bottom of said one of the dummy pockets extends beyond the opening of the one content pocket in at least one of a longitudinal direction of the main body and a direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, wherein a dimension of an opening of each of the dummy pockets in the longitudinal direction of the main body is different than a dimension of an opening of each of the content pockets in the longitudinal direction of the main body, and wherein a dimension of each of the dummy pockets in the longitudinal direction of the main body is smaller than a dimension of each of the content pockets in the longitudinal direction of the main body.