# US 8,464,421 B2 · Electronic component mounting device

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- Number: US 8,464,421 B2
- Document ID: US8464421B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/392,712
- Filed: 2010-10-14
- Published: 2012-06-21
- Granted: 2013-06-18
- Earliest claimed: 2009-10-14
- Assignees: Panasonic Corporation
- Applicants: Shuzo Yagi; Takeyuki Kawase; Yoshiyuki Kitagawa; Naoto Kohketsu; Nobuhiro Nakai
- Inventors: Shuzo Yagi; Takeyuki Kawase; Yoshiyuki Kitagawa; Naoto Kohketsu; Nobuhiro Nakai
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8464421B2

## CPC

- H05K 13/0061: {Tools for holding the circuit boards during processing; handling transport of printed circuit boards}
- Y10T 29/4913: Assembling to base an electrical component, e.g., capacitor, etc.
- Y10T 29/5137: including assembling or disassembling station
- Y10T 29/5196: Multiple station with conveyor
- Y10T 29/53174: Means to fasten electrical component to wiring board, base, or substrate
- Y10T 29/53178: Chip component
- Y10T 29/53187: Multiple station assembly apparatus
- Y10T 29/53265: with work-holder for assembly
- H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
- Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION

## Abstract

A substrate conveyor track is provided with first to fourth conveyors. Two conveyors situated on both sides of the substrate conveyor track, and the other two conveyors situated at the center of the same. There is enabled selection of any one from a small substrate mounting mode for giving a single substrate conveyance width to the four conveyors and mounting electronic components on four small substrates having the single width; a large substrate mounting mode for actuating all movable conveyors to the center of the substrate conveyor track and mounting electronic components on two large substrates by the two conveyors; and a large-small-substrates mounting mode for bringing the two conveyors on one side of the substrate conveyor track, among the four conveyors, into the small substrate mounting mode and bringing one of the conveyors on the other side of the track into the large substrate mounting mode.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An electronic component mounting apparatus comprising a substrate conveyor track, a first component feed unit and a second component feed unit that are disposed on both sides of the substrate conveyor track, and first and second transfer heads that convey and mount electronic components put in the first and second component feed units to substrates positioned on the substrate conveyor track, wherein
the substrate conveyor track is provided with first through fourth conveyors laid side by side in parallel to each other; wherein
each of two external conveyors of the four conveyors, located closely to both sides of the substrate conveyor track, includes a stationary path situated closer to either one of external sides of the substrate conveyor track and a movable path situated closer to a center of the substrate conveyor track; and wherein
each of remaining two center conveyors includes a stationary path situated closer to the center of the substrate conveyor track and a movable path situated closer to either one of the external sides of the substrate conveyor track.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising sliders for making it possible to selectively perform processing pertaining to any one of modes; namely,
a small substrate mounting mode for giving an equal substrate conveyance width to the four conveyors and mounting electronic components on four small substrates having a single width;
a large substrate mounting mode for actuating all movable paths to the center of the substrate conveyor track and mounting electronic components on two large substrates by means of the remaining fixed paths; and
a large-small-substrates mounting mode for setting widths of two conveyors on one side of the substrate conveyor track, among the four conveyors, to the same substrate conveyance width as that employed in the small substrate mounting mode, thereby mounting electronic components on the two small substrates and also for actuating the movable paths of the remaining external conveyor closely to the center of the substrate conveyor track, to thus set the width of one of the remaining conveyors to the same substrate conveyance width as that employed in the large substrate mounting mode, thereby mounting electronic components on the large substrate.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a substrate sorter disposed at an upstream position with respect to the substrate conveyor track, wherein, in the small substrate mounting mode, the substrate sorter preferentially feeds substrates to conveyors located in proximity to the respective component feed units than to the conveyors located at the center of the substrate conveyor track that are distant from the respective component feed units.