Tape feeder set-up system
AssigneeFuji Corporation
InventorsTakanori Takagi, Takayuki Mizuno
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Abstract
The tape feeder set-up system has a tape feeder, having an electric motor, for feeding a carrier tape wound on a reel and accommodating multiple components in a predetermined feed direction; a loading table on which the tape feeder can be loaded; a scheduled use determination section for determining whether a component in the tape feeder loaded on the loading table is scheduled to be used based on a component usage schedule, and a control section for reversing the carrier tape in a direction opposite to the predetermined feed direction by controlling the electric motor of the tape feeder when the scheduled use determination section determines that the component is not scheduled to be used.
Claims9
A tape feeder set-up system, comprising:
- a tape feeder having a driving mechanism configured to rotate a sprocket to feed a carrier tape wound on a reel and accommodating multiple components in a predetermined feed direction, the sprocket having teeth that engage with sprocket holes of the carrier tape;
- a loading table on which the tape feeder is loaded;
- a scheduled use determination section configured to determine whether a component in the tape feeder loaded on the loading table is scheduled to be used based on a component usage schedule, and
- a control section configured to reverse the carrier tape in a direction opposite to the predetermined feed direction such that an engagement between the sprocket holes of the carrier tape and the teeth of the sprocket is released by controlling the driving mechanism of the tape feeder when the scheduled use determination section determines that the component is not scheduled to be used.
A tape feeder set-up system, comprising:
- a tape feeder having a driving mechanism configured to rotate a sprocket to feed a carrier tape wound on a reel and accommodating multiple components in a predetermined feed direction the sprocket having teeth that engage with sprocket holes of the carrier tape;
- a control section configured to reverse the carrier tape in a direction opposite to the predetermined feed direction by controlling the driving mechanism;
- a memory section configured to store an ID of the tape feeder linked with an ID of a reel from which the carrier tape is fed by the tape feeder in order to mount a component on a board by a component mounting machine, and
- a cancellation section configured to cancel the link between the ID of the tape feeder stored in the memory section and the ID of the reel when the control section reverses the carrier tape in the opposite direction and an engagement between the sprocket holes of the carrier tape and the teeth of the sprocket is released.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.