Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hirofumi Obara

Naoto Mimura

Hiroshi Uchiyama

Akira Kabeshita

Osamu Okuda

Hiroshi Satoh

Chikashi Konishi

Izumi Miura

Hiroshi Ogata

Tomoyuki Nakano

Tadashi Endo

Satoshi Kawaguchi

Takao Kashiwazaki

Masato Tanino

Shuuichi Kubota

Koji Okawa

Kazuyuki Nakano

Nobuyuki Kakita

Shiro Oji

Kazunori Kanai

A cassette control device by which high-speed processing can be expected even by using an arithmetical unit with current processing capability, even when the number of cassettes increases simultaneously with an increase in the number of nozzles which can suck electronic parts. There is provided storage unit () having storage regions in which programs for respective operation patterns of the cassettes (-to-M) are set for each of the nozzles. An arithmetic unit () extracts a specific program required for driving in a specific operation pattern based on a command () inputted according to the content of packaging, from a specific region which is provided in the storage unit () to correspond to a specific nozzle to be used, and the arithmetic unit () operates the specific cassette using the specific program.

Electronic parts installation device and cassette control device

An apparatus and a method for mounting electronic components are provided which shorten a cycle time required for mounting and enable a component mounting machine to be arranged in a small area. There is provided a controller, so that a retreat control for a second electronic component is performed to a second component feeder so as to avoid an interference if a first electronic component or a component holder interferes with the second electronic component of the second component feeder because of movement of a mounting head. The time conventionally required for moving up and down a component holder can be reduced, and moreover the need of uselessly moving along a detour at a time of moving the mounting head is eliminated. The cycle time can be shortened, and eventually costs can be reduced.

Electronic component mounting apparatus and method

There is provided a circuit board fixing table having a structure in which no vibration or shock is applied to a transport motor when a circuit board is fixed and an electronic component mounting apparatus utilizing the circuit board fixing table and capable of mounting electronic components without causing operational failures during transportation. A circuit board fixing table for transporting a circuit board placed on transport belts to a predetermined position and fixing it with an elevating fixing device, the table having a transport motor provided separately from a support member for the transport belts for driving the transport belts and power transmission mechanisms A and B for transmitting a driving force of the transport motor to the transport belts.

Circuit board fixing table, circuit board fixing method and electronic component mounting apparatus

In an electronic component feeding apparatus for feeding components with use of a taping component, a brushless motor is used as a drive motor in a tape sending mechanism that transports the taping component so as to improve productivity in an electronic component mounting apparatus equipped with the electronic component feeding apparatus. Also, an electronic component feeding apparatus is provided with a control part that automatically executes initial processing such as sending of the taping component, as well as detects and reports a sending failure of the taping component when the electronic component feeding apparatus is installed in the electronic component mounting apparatus, which makes it possible to provide an electronic component feeding apparatus enabling easy and prompt detection of the sending failure of the taping component.

Electronic part feeder

Two or more parts feeding sections are provided, and in each of the parts feeding sections, identical combinations of parts cassettes aligned in the same arrangement are prepared. If one or more type of components that are to be picked up at one time by a plurality of suction nozzles is exhausted, the mounting head moves to the other parts feeding section, which provides the same combination of components for all the suction nozzles to pick up the components at one time, so that the mounting operation can be continued without stopping the apparatus for replenishment of components.

Electronic component mounting method

A component mounting apparatus and method allows for components supplied from component supplying members to be simultaneously or continuously held by component holding members without being affected by positional displacements of the component holding members relative to a head, a positional displacement of the component supplying members or the like. With a positional displacement amount (&Dgr;y) along a Y direction relative to a reference position of a nozzle taken into account, at a component supply cassette, driving a motor for moving components one by one along the Y direction to a component supply position is controlled, thereby positionally adjusting a component at the component supply position and absorbing the positional displacement amount.

Device and method for mounting parts

Electronic component mounting apparatus using duplicate sources of components

In a component mounting apparatus, a component (,) is held, positioned and mounted at a predetermined position of a member (,) to be mounted. After the component (,) is mounted to the member (,), a component holding member (,) is raised by a distance corresponding approximately to a push-in amount by which the component holding member (,) has been moved down to mount the component, then stopped to retain the component (,), is kept in this state while retaining the component for a fixed time, and is raised again to a predetermined position.

Device and method for mounting electronic parts

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Nakakoma-gun, Japan

Hirofumi Obara