JASON BROWN, PT, DPT
Restorative Service Providers in Austin, TX

5913425, Jun 22, 1999

Dec 8, 1997

8/986417

James R. Thomas - Austin TX
Clifton C. Haggard - Austin TX
Qifang Yang - Handan, CN
Song Ping Chen - Taiyuan, CN
Mao Shi Khoo - Penang, MY
Gang Wang - Shenzhen, CN
Jason D. Brown - Austin TX

Peak International, Inc. - Austin TX

B65D 7302

206714

A component carrier, for holding for purposes of automated visual inspection an electrical component having a lead with a free end, includes a carrier substrate and a pocket recessed in the substrate for holding the component in the interior of the pocket. The pocket includes a wall, depending from the carrier substrate and defining a lateral boundary of the pocket, and a bottom. There is a lead-tip horizontal plane and a lead-tip vertical plane when a correctly constructed component of the type the carrier is intended to hold is properly oriented in the pocket. The lead-tip vertical plane is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the pocket. The wall slopes down and inwardly at a first angle relative to the substrate through the lead-tip horizontal plane and at a second angle relative to the substrate through the lead-tip vertical plane. The first angle is greater than or equal to approximately 75. degree. and less than or equal to 90. degree.