Electronic component mounting apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsEiichi Hachiya, Akira Noudo, Atsushi Tanabe
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Abstract
An electronic component mounting device permits recognition of an electronic component for precise mounting. A recognizing device includes a line camera having a one-dimensional CCD array, a shutter camera having a shutter function, and a device for selecting either the line camera or the shutter camera depending on the size or shape of the electronic components. The electronic components are recognized by image data obtained by a selected one of the cameras while the electronic component is moving along a movement path of a mounting head towards a mounting location.
Claims9
An electronic component mounting apparatus, comprising:
- a mounting head for holding and moving an electronic component to a mounting location and for mounting it on a substrate;
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- recognizing means disposed below a movement path of the mounting head for recognizing the electronic component held on the mounting head, said recognizing means including a line camera having a one-dimensional CCD array, a shutter camera having a shutter function, selecting means for selecting one of the line camera and the shutter camera depending on at least one of a size and shape of the electronic component, and synchronizing means for synchronizing operation of a selected one of the line camera and the shutter camera with a movement of the electronic component along the movement path of the mounting head which moves the electronic component towards a mounting location to permit capture of an image of the electronic component while moving, whereby the electronic component can be recognized before being mounted by image data obtained through capture of the image thereof without necessarily requiring movement of the electronic component to be halted.
A method of mounting electronic components, comprising:
- providing recognizing means including a line camera having a one-dimensional CCD array and a shutter camera having a shutter function;
- selecting one of the line camera and the shutter camera in accordance with at least one of a size and a shape of an electronic component for picking up image data of the electronic component;
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- synchronizing operation of a selected one of the line camera and the shutter camera with movement of the electronic component held by a mounting head and moved along a movement path of the mounting head towards a mounting location to permit capture of the image data of the electronic component while the electronic component is moving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.