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US 2015/0029328 A1Published application
Electronic component mounting apparatus and electronic component mounting method
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsEiichi HACHIYA, Takashi NAKAMURA, David L. KELLY, Jose CAMARA
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Abstract
A control unit of an electronic component mounting apparatus controls a component imaging unit so as to move an electronic component that is held by the holding unit, when the holding unit is moved in a direction, which is oblique to a conveyance direction of a substrate and is close to the substrate, by a movement mechanism unit.
Claims7
An electronic component mounting apparatus comprising:
- a substrate conveyance mechanism unit configured to convey a substrate with an electronic component mounted thereon in a first direction;
- a component supply unit configured to supply the electronic component;
- a holding unit configured to hold the electronic component supplied from the component supply unit;
- a movement mechanism unit configured to move the holding unit;
- a component imaging unit configured to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit;
- a control unit configured to control an imaging form of the electronic components by the component imaging unit;
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- a component recognition unit configured to recognize the electronic component based on an image that is imaged by the component imaging unit,
- wherein the component imaging unit has an area camera that includes at least one imaging element, and
- the control unit controls the component imaging unit so as to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit, when the holding unit is moved in a direction oblique to the first direction and close to the substrate by the movement mechanism unit.
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An electronic component mounting apparatus comprising:
- a substrate conveyance mechanism unit configured to convey a substrate with an electronic component mounted thereon in a first direction;
- a component supply unit configured to supply the electronic component;
- a holding unit configured to hold the electronic component supplied from the component supply unit;
- a movement mechanism unit configured to move the holding unit;
- a component imaging unit configured to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit;
- a control unit configured to control an imaging form of the electronic component by the component imaging unit;
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- a component recognition unit configured to recognize the electronic component based on an image that is imaged by the component imaging unit,
- wherein the component imaging unit has at least three area cameras that include at least one imaging element, and visual fields of the imaging element are common to each other regardless of the area camera, and
- the control unit controls the component imaging unit so as to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit, when the holding unit is moved in a direction oblique to the first direction and close to the substrate by the movement mechanism unit.
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An electronic component mounting method performed by an electronic component mounting apparatus comprising:
- a substrate conveyance mechanism unit configured to convey a substrate with an electronic component mounted thereon in a first direction;
- a component supply unit configured to supply the electronic component;
- a holding unit configured to hold the electronic component supplied from the component supply unit;
- a movement mechanism unit configured to move the holding unit;
- a component imaging unit configured to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit;
- a control unit configured to control an imaging form of the electronic component by the component imaging unit;
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- a component recognition unit configured to recognize the electronic component based on an image that is imaged by the component imaging unit, the component imaging unit having at least three area cameras that include at least one imaging element, and visual fields of the imaging element being common to each other regardless of the area camera,
- wherein the control unit controls the component imaging unit so as to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit, when the holding unit is moved in a direction oblique to the first direction and close to the substrate by the movement mechanism unit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.