Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hideki Yoshihara

Kenichi Sato

Satoshi Masuda

Tatsuya Kawamura

Setsuo Horimoto

Naomi Nishi

A method for mounting electronic components on circuit boards by operating an electronic component-mounting apparatus based on numerical control (NC) data involves the storage of component information, including supply numbers of components purchased from a plurality of makers, maker names of the purchased components, sizes thereof, configurations thereof, and mounting conditions, into a component mounting data base. A correspondence is established between factory numbers listed in a CAD data table and the supply numbers, thereby allowing the management of the supply numbers by grouping one or more supply numbers with each factory number. The supply numbers corresponding to a factory number are used as an index to obtain component information corresponding to each of the supply numbers. This obtained component information is used to generate the numerical control (NC) data for the component-mounting apparatus.

Method for component mounting based on numerical control data generating

A component mounting apparatus includes a holding section for holding a plurality of component mounting heads, each head having a component sucking nozzle. One of the component mounting heads selectively held by the holding section can be mounted on a component mounting section. A storage section, provided on each component mounting head, stores information of each component mounting head, and a reading section, provided on the component mounting section, reads the information of the storage section.

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Moriguchi, Japan

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