Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hidekazu Nakamura

Kunio Tanaka

Hiroyuki Fujiwara

Shigetoshi Negishi

Takayuki Fujita

Takashi Nakanishi

Kenji Kato

Takayoshi Kado

Tomitatu Soga

Hiroaki Terazawa

A chip component supply apparatus of the invention includes a container box for storing chip components in pieces, a means for conveying chip components from the container box onto a conveyor belt, which moves intermittently and conveys the transferred chip components toward a take-out port area where a vacuum suction nozzle of an electronic component placement machine takes out the chip components. A stopper is positioned in the vicinity of the take-out port area for stopping the chip components conveyed by the conveyor belt at the take-out port area. The stopper moves and departs from the vicinity of the take-out port area when the conveyor belt finishes intermittent motion and stops, and returns and is positioned at the take-out port area before the next chip component conveyed by next intermittent motion of the conveyor belt reaches the take-out port area. The vacuum suction nozzle of the electronic component placement machine takes out the chip component at the take-out port area when the conveyor belt is stopped and the stopper is apart from the take-out port area.

Chip component supply apparatus

Chip-type electronic elements are applied in line on the surface of a carrier tape before they are supplied to an automatic electronic-element supply apparatus so as to be automatically mounted on a printed circuit board. Side plates are disposed at an end portion of the body frame of the automatic electronic element supply apparatus for a chip-type electronic element mounting apparatus in such a manner that a plurality of carrier tape reels can be fastened to the side plates and the carrier tapes are discharged from the tape reels in a ratchet manner while moving adjacently in parallel to one another through another end portion of the body frame. Thus, a multiplicity of different kinds of electronic elements can be supplied from one supply apparatus.

Chip-type electronic element supplying apparatus

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Ibaraki, Japan

Hidekazu Nakamura