Component mounter and mounting method
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorWataru Hidese
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Abstract
A component mounter which picks up components from two or more tape feeders aligned in a component feeder carriage, and mounts them a board. Suction nozzles for vacuum-holding components are disposed on the transfer head at a predetermined basic pitch in the X direction (tape feeders alignment direction) to form a nozzle line. Two or more nozzle lines are aligned in the Y direction (perpendicular to the X direction). These suction nozzles pick up two or more components from the tape feeders simultaneously, enabling to reduce the space required for installing the mounter and making the mounter more compact. Increased feasibility of simultaneous pickup of several components also improves mounting efficiency.
Claims13
A component mounter comprising:
- (a) a plurality of parts feeders aligned in a component feeder carriage;
- and
- (b) a transfer head for picking up a component from said parts feeders and mounting it on a board, and said transfer head having a plurality of suction nozzles for vacuum-holding said component;
- wherein said suction nozzles are aligned at a predetermined basic pitch, alongside said parts feeders, in a plurality of nozzle lines.
A component mounter comprising:
- (a) a plurality of parts feeders aligned in a component feeder carriage;
- and
- (b) a transfer head for picking up said component from said parts feeders and mounting it on a board, and said transfer head having a plurality of suction nozzles for vacuum-holding said component;
- wherein said suction nozzles include those of different sizes;
- and said suction nozzles are disposed at least at one of a predetermined basic pitch and simple multiple of basic pitch, and aligned alongside said parts feeders in a plurality of nozzles lines.
A component mounting method for a component mounter, said method comprising the step of simultaneously picking up a plurality of components from said parts feeders by a transfer head, and said component mounter comprising:
- a plurality of parts feeders aligned in a component feeder carriage;
- and
- a transfer head for picking up said components from said parts feeders and mounting them on a board, and said transfer head having a plurality of suction nozzles for vacuum-holding said components;
- wherein said suction nozzles are aligned at a predetermined basic pitch alongside said parts feeders in a plurality of nozzle lines, and said plurality of nozzle lines are disposed perpendicular to the alignment direction of said suction nozzles in each of said nozzle lines.
A component mounting method for picking up a component from a plurality of parts feeders aligned in a feeder carriage by a transfer head and mounting it on a board, wherein said transfer head has a plurality of suction nozzles for vacuum-holding said component, said plurality of suction nozzles being aligned at a predetermined basic pitch, alongside said parts feeders, in a plurality of nozzle lines;
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- said method comprising:
- (a) capturing an image of a calibration board using a camera for capturing the image of said board, said camera being disposed at one of approximately in line with a nozzle line near to said component feeder carriage in said plurality of nozzle lines, and nearer to the head attachment base side from the nozzle line;
- and said camera being integrally moved together with said transfer head using a moving device for moving said transfer head;
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- (b) processing calibration data for said moving device based on an image capturing result.
A component mounting method for mounting a component picked up from a plurality of parts feeders in a component feeder carriage on a board by a transfer head,
- wherein said transfer head has a plurality of suction nozzles with different sizes for vacuum-holding said component, said plurality of suction nozzles being aligned at least at one of a predetermined basic pitch and simple multiple of basic pitch, alongside said parts feeders, in a plurality of nozzle lines;
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- said method comprising the step of simultaneously picking up a plurality of components with different sizes from said parts feeders by said transfer head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.