Tape Feeder Exfoliating Knife Tip Alignment Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing tape feeder systems require complex and time-consuming operations for aligning the exfoliating member with the carrier tape's joining surfaces, leading to inefficiencies in the carrier tape installation process.
Innovation Solution
A tape feeder system with a guide part that includes a bottom member, a top member, an opening and closing mechanism, a lower guide member, an exfoliating member, and a pushing up unit, which facilitates the alignment of the exfoliating knife tip with the joining surfaces by pushing up the lower guide member, allowing for easy installation of the carrier tape.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the exfoliating member is included in the tape guide and the carrier tape is set when the tape guide is detached from the body part, then the operativity of the tape installing operation is improved, but it needs time to confirm the alignment and efforts and time are needed in the carrier tape installing operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-positioning the exfoliating member on the tape guide before the carrier tape installation. The tape guide is detached from the body part with the exfoliating member already in place, ready to automatically align with the joining surfaces when the carrier tape is inserted. This eliminates the need for manual alignment confirmation during installation, reducing both time and operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service through the automatic alignment mechanism where the exfoliating member on the detached tape guide self-aligns with the carrier tape's joining surfaces during insertion. The structure is designed so that the exfoliating member's position relative to the tape guide ensures automatic engagement with the carrier tape without requiring operator intervention for alignment confirmation, making the system self-sufficient in the alignment process.
2Manufacturing precision
If the exfoliating member is precisely aligned with the joining surfaces of the carrier tape and cover tape, then the exfoliation function is effective, but it requires careful finger operation and alignment confirmation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-setting the exfoliating member's position on the detached tape guide before carrier tape installation. The exfoliating member is positioned in advance to correspond with the joining surfaces location, ensuring precision is built into the structure rather than requiring manual adjustment during operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service through the automatic alignment feature where the exfoliating member on the tape guide self-aligns with the carrier tape's joining surfaces during insertion. The structural design ensures that when the carrier tape is placed on the tape guide, the exfoliating member automatically positions itself correctly relative to the joining surfaces without requiring careful manual operation or alignment confirmation by the operator.
Data Source
AI summary
In a structure that exfoliation is performed in the pitch sending of a carrier tape (15) by making a cover tape exfoliating mechanism (50) intervene between joining surfaces of a base tape (15a) and a cover tape (15e), in an exfoliation start position where an exfoliating knife tip (51f) of an acuminate shape, which is provided at a front end, starts to exfoliate the joining surface, a lower guide member (40), which guides the carrier tape (15) from below, is pushed up from the bottom side by a lever member (44), and when the carrier tape (15) is installed, the carrier tape (15) is pushed up together with the lower guide member (40) to make the exfoliating knife tip (51f) in the exfoliation start position to be aligned to the joining surfaces and enter between the joining surfaces.