US 2002/0000360 A1Published application

Electronic component feeding apparatus

AssigneeTaiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.

InventorsKoji Saito, Atsuo Kamimura

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Abstract

An electronic component feeding apparatus comprises a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis. By oscillating a feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range, the apparatus takes the electronic components stored in bulk in a storeroom into the parallel space, and move the electronic components in the parallel space toward a feeding path each time the bottom of the parallel space tilts down toward the feeding path during an oscillation of the feeding rotor, and take the electronic components into the feeding path one by one, and allow the electronic component taken into the feeding path to move downward by gravity.

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Dependent claims

An electronic component feeding apparatus comprising:

a storeroom for storing electronic components with a predetermined shape in bulk;
a feeding rotor having a recess for forming a parallel space with a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis, said feeding rotor being rotatably disposed on the bottom of the storeroom in a state of facing a part of an outer periphery thereof onto the storeroom and communicating the parallel space with the storeroom, said parallel space capable of taking in a plurality of electronic components from the storeroom in a predetermined orientation;
rotor driving means for oscillating the feeding rotor within a predetermined angular range;
and
a feeding path having a cross-sectional shape for allowing the electronic components to be taken in one by one in a predetermined orientation from the parallel space and allowing the electronic components to move downward by gravity.

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Facts

Application: 09/895,390Filed 2 Jul 2001
Priority: JP 2000-2007163 Jul 2000
Published: 3 Jan 2002
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Classification4 codes

B65G 47/1471
By means of movement of the bottom or a part of the wall of the container: movement in one direction, substantially outwards
H05K 13/028
Feeding of components: simultaneously loading a plurality of loose objects, e.g. by means of vibrations, pressure differences, magnetic fields
B65G
Transport or storage devices
H05K
Printed circuits

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