Feeding apparatus for chip component
AssigneeMurata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
InventorsAkira Nemoto, Shigeki Takahashi, Nihei Kaishita, Mitsuhiro Namura
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Abstract
A feed lever is lowered, correspondingly to the load input of a chip mounter. A rotary drum is intermittently moved through a conversion mechanism, intermittently in one direction. Chip components placed in a component accommodation chamber are aligned and discharged. When a rotation resistance larger than a predetermined value acts, a belt is slid, and breaking of a chip component is prevented.
Claims19
A feeding apparatus for a chip component having a component accommodation chamber for accommodating many chip components, an alignment path for aligning the chip components in the component accommodation chamber in one row to discharge, and a rotary member for solving clogging of a chip component in the alignment path,
- comprising a feed lever operable to be reciprocated linearly or swiveled correspondingly to a load input from a chip mounter, and
- a conversion mechanism for converting the motion of the feed lever to the rotational movement of the rotary member and having a torque limit function of preventing the rotational force of the rotary member when the rotational resistance of the rotary member becomes higher than a predetermined value.
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