Component mounting apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsNaomi Nishi, Hideki Yoshihara, Setsuo Horimoto
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Abstract
A component mounting apparatus includes a holding section for holding a plurality of component mounting heads, each head having a component sucking nozzle. One of the component mounting heads selectively held by the holding section can be mounted on a component mounting section. A storage section, provided on each component mounting head, stores information of each component mounting head, and a reading section, provided on the component mounting section, reads the information of the storage section.
Claims10
A component mounting apparatus, comprising:
- a holding section holding a plurality of component mounting heads, each said component mounting head having a component sucking nozzle;
- a component mounting section for receiving and mounting one of said component mounting heads;
- a storage section provided on each said component mounting head for storing information about said mounting head;
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- a reading section provided on said component mounting section for reading the information in said storage section;
- wherein said storage section is capable of being both read and being written to by said reading section on said component mounting section.
A component mounting apparatus, comprising:
- a holding section holding a plurality of component mounting heads, each said component mounting head having a component sucking nozzle;
- a component mounting section for receiving and mounting one of said component mounting heads;
- a storage means provided on each said component mounting head for storing information about said mounting head, said storage means being capable of being both read from and written to;
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- a reading means provided on said component mounting section for reading the information from a said storage means and writing information to a said storage means.
The component mounting apparatus of claim 10, wherein said storage means of each said component mounting head stores mounting information for said component mounting head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.