Jozef G Smolders

Title: Innovations by Jozef G Smolders

Introduction

Jozef G Smolders is a notable inventor based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. He has made significant contributions to the field of electronic and electrical component placement. With a total of three patents to his name, his work has advanced the technology used in component assembly.

Latest Patents

One of his latest patents is a method of placing components on carriers. This innovative method involves M sets of N component carriers that are placed in and removed from a component placement region one set at a time during a placement period. An empty carrier set is placed in the region as a full carrier set is removed, while each set is displaced to a different one of M component placement heads. Each carrier receives M components, and there are N sequentially occurring cycles in a placement period. A carrier of each set simultaneously receives a component in a placement cycle from a different one of the placement heads, with each head corresponding to a specific component type. The M sets of carriers are displaced simultaneously in a given cycle in the same direction in an x,y plane to a component receiving position, ensuring that a given component type has the same position in each carrier.

Another significant patent is for an apparatus designed for placing electronic and/or electrical components on a substrate. This apparatus features a first carriage that is movable in an X direction and a second carriage that moves in a Y direction at right angles to the X direction. The second