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US 6,443,669 B1Granted
Electronic component feeding apparatus
AssigneeTaiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
InventorKoji Saito
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Abstract
An electronic component feeding apparatus for conveying aligned electronic components includes a conveying tube, a cylinder for sucking air from an end of the tube, and a movable stopper plate for stopping the conveyed, aligned electronic components.
Claims21
An electronic component feeding apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying passage for conveying electronic components having a predetermined shape in an alignment state;
- a sucking device for exerting an air suction into the conveying passage from an end of the conveying passage and conveying the electronic components in the conveying passage;
- a movable component stopper for stopping the electronic components conveyed in the alignment state by the air suction;
- and
- a displacing device for displacing the component stopper from a stop position to a removed position therefrom after the electronic components conveyed are stopped by the component stopper.
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An electronic component feeding apparatus, comprising:
- a conveying passage for conveying electronic components having a predetermined shape in a alignment state;
- a sucking device for exerting an air suction into the conveying passage from an end of the conveying passage and conveying the electronic components in the conveying passage;
- and
- a movable component stopper for stopping the electronic components conveyed in the alignment state by the air suction;
- wherein the conveying passage is composed of a tube having a bore whose cross section allows the electronic components to pass through the bore in a predetermined direction.
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A method of feeding electronic components having a predetermined shape comprising:
- conveying the electronic components in an aligned state in a conveying passage by sucking air from an end of the conveying passage;
- stopping the electronic components conveyed in the alignment state by the air suction with a component stopper;
- and
- displacing the component stopper from a stop position to a removed position after the conveyed electronic components were stopped by the component stopper.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.