Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.

Jong-Eok Ban

Seong-Ku Kim

Tae-Sung Jang

Jhin-Woo Shin

An electronic component feeder and a chip mount having the electronic component feeder are provided. The electronic component feeder includes a body having a pickup position at which electronic components are picked up and a plurality of component feed paths guiding respective component feed tapes holding the electronic components to the pickup position, and which switches the component feed paths to select a component feed path guiding a component feed tape to the pickup position so that the electronic components held in the component feed tape are picked up at the pickup position, based on a component holding state about the electronic components held in one of the component feed tapes.

Electronic component feeder

A head assembly for a chip mounter is provided. The head assembly includes a nozzle module disposed above a printed circuit board (PCB) and configured to pick up and move an electronic component to mount the electronic component on the PCB, and a component recognition module electrically connected to the nozzle module and configured to recognize presence of the electronic component, a distance between the PCB and the nozzle module, and alignment of the electronic component at least one given moving position of the electronic component.

Head assembly for chip mounter

A substrate transfer apparatus and a method of driving the same includes a first guide block and a second guide block, and a single ball screw shaft connected to the first and second guide blocks moves the guide blocks in an axial direction thereof. A first drive unit rotates the ball screw shaft to concurrently move the pair of guide blocks, and a second drive unit connected to the second guide block separately moves the second guide block with respect to the first guide block.

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Jong-Eok Ban