US 11,240,949 B2Granted

Component mounting line

AssigneeFuji Corporation

InventorsMasahiro Kondo, Jun Iisaka, Hidetoshi Kawai

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Abstract

Component mounting line includes multiple component mounting machines arranged along a conveyance direction of a board, feeder storage container that stores multiple feeders that are attachable and detachable to component mounting machine, and exchanging robot capable of exchanging feeder between feeder storage container and each of the component mounting machines, in which feeder storage container is installed in the same arrangement as the multiple component mounting machines, and exchanging robot moves along the conveyance direction of the board and exchanges feeder. Accordingly, regardless of which of the component mounting machines feeder is used in, replenishment and collection may be performed in feeder storage container, so that an operator can easily replenish and collect feeder.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method of using a component mounting line, comprising:

mounting components on a board using multiple component mounting machines arranged in a conveyance direction of the board, each of the multiple component mounting machines including a component supply unit that respectively supplies the components to be mounted;
storing an exchange component supply unit in a unit storage container arranged in the conveyance direction of the board;
exchanging the component supply unit attached to one of the multiple component mounting machines with the exchange component supply unit stored in the unit storage container using a unit exchanging device movable along a rail provided parallel to the conveyance direction of the board along a front face of the multiple component mounting machines and the unit storage container;
and
controlling a moving mechanism that moves the unit exchanging device along the rail to move the unit exchanging device in a predetermined movement range along the rail.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/031,589Filed 24 Sep 2020 · continuation
Published: US 2021/0015012 A114 Jan 2021
Granted: 1 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H05K 13/0452
Mounting of components , e.g. of leadless components: mounting machines or lines comprising a plurality of tools for guiding different components…
H05K 13/021
Feeding of components: loading or unloading of containers
H05K 13/0417
Mounting of components , e.g. of leadless components: feeding with belts or tapes
H05K 13/0473
Mounting of components , e.g. of leadless components: cutting and clinching the terminal ends of the leads after they are fitted on a circuit board

Family

PCT/JP2015/073778Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Aug 2015
US 2021/0015012 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Jan 2021
Application15/751,302Parent of this continuation
US 10,820,459 B2Related patent
US 2018/0242485 A1Published application
US 11,240,949 B2This patent

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