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US 4,451,324 AGranted
Apparatus for placing chip type circuit elements on a board
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsIwao Ichikawa, Kenichiro Kaimori
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Abstract
An apparatus for locating chip type circuit elements on a printed circuit board includes an accommodating assembly for temporarily storing said circuit elements supplied from hoppers, a movable shutter placed under the accommodating assembly, and which supports and rotates circuit elements within the accommodating assembly, and a template placed under the shutter to receive the circuit elements dropped from the accommodating assembly when the shutter is removed laterally from under the accommodating assembly.
Claims12
An apparatus for placing chip type circuit elements on a board, comprising:
- hopper means for storing a plurality of chip type circuit elements;
- a plurality of accommodating means for temporarily accommodating circuit elements received from said hopper means, at least two of said accommodating means being oriented in respective different direction with respect to said apparatus;
- laterally movable shutter means having an operative position under said accommodating means, in which said shutter means supports said circuit elements in the respective ones of said accommodating means, and an inoperative position, in which said shutter means is removed from said accommodating means to permit discharge of said circuit elements from the latter;
- means operative with said shutter means in said operative position for laterally moving said shutter means so as to have components of movement in said different directions for ensuring orientation of the circuit elements in said different directions of the respective accommodating means;
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- a template located under said shutter means and having a plurality of receiving portions respectively corresponding to said accommodating means and into which the discharged circuit elements are allowed to fall when said shutter means is removed from said accommodating means to said inoperative position.
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