Insertion head with a twisting device for electrical components
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsWolfgang Huber, Mohammad Mehdianpour, Ralf Schulz
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Abstract
A turret-like insertion head having at least one twisting device for mounting electrical components. The insertion head has a stator, a rotor and an optical measuring device. A plurality of circularly distributed grippers are mounted on the rotor such that the grippers can rotate about a mounting axis. The optical measuring device detects the position of the components held on the grippers, and as a result, a component can be twisted into its approximate mounting position during forward movement of the gripper before making a final position measurement, thereby saving time.
Claims8
A device for mounting electrical components, the device comprising a turret-like insertion head having at least one precision twisting assembly, a coarse twisting assembly, a stator, and a rotor including a plurality of circularly distributed grippers for holding the components to be mounted, the rotor being disposed for rotation about a mounting axis, and the insertion head further having an optical measuring device for detecting a position of components held by the gripper, whereby the components to be mounted are twisted into a position approximating a desired mounting position by the coarse twisting assembly before being optically measured, and the components to be mounted are accurately twisted into the desired mounting position by the precision twisting device after being optically measured.
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