Sony Corporation

Juki Automation Systems Corporation

Katsuhiko Ohno

Akira Kimura

Atsushi Saito

Koki Maekawa

A component supplying apparatus includes a motor, a rotating body, a transmitting mechanism, and a predicting section. The rotating body engages with a carrier tape in which a plurality of components to be mounted on a circuit board by a component mounting apparatus are accommodated at predetermined pitches and pays out the carrier tape at the predetermined pitches for supplying the plurality of components. The transmitting mechanism transmits a driving force of the motor to the rotating body. The predicting section predicts a deviation amount of a supplying position of each of the plurality of components based on a model formula expressing a periodical fluctuation of the supplying position of each of the plurality of components that is due to the transmitting mechanism and caused at a time the carrier tape is paid out by the rotating body.

Component supplying apparatus, component mounting apparatus, component supplying method, positioning apparatus, and positioning method

A conveyor apparatus includes a conveyor portion, a side member having first and second side members, a connecting member, a first locking member and a driving unit. The first locking mechanism attached to the second side member locks and unlocks a connection between the second side member and the connecting member. In an unlocked state, the second member is movable along the connecting member towards or away from the first member. In a locked state, the second member is immovable relative to the first member. The driving unit is operative to move the second side member along the first direction close to or away from the first side member when the first locking mechanism is in the unlocked state and is operative to move the conveyor portion, the side member and the connecting member in unison along the first direction when the first locking mechanism is in the locked state.

Component mounting apparatus, mounting-component producing method, and conveyor apparatus

A tray supply apparatus includes a tray magazine, a sub magazine, a supply station, and a lifting and lowering mechanism. The tray magazine can store a tray on each of a plurality of stages. The tray stores components. The sub magazine includes a plurality of conveyance mechanisms having a plurality of stages. The sub magazine is adjacent to the tray magazine and capable of taking out the tray from the tray magazine. The supply station includes a plurality of placement portions having a plurality of stages, on each of which the tray is placed, and a stage that lifts and lowers the tray between the plurality of placement portions. The supply station is disposed at a position where the components are picked up. The lifting and lowering mechanism lifts and lowers the sub magazine to convey the tray between the tray magazine and the supply station through the sub magazine.

Tray supply apparatus

A component mounting apparatus includes: a load area to load a substrate; an unload area to unload the substrate; a main area interposed between the load and unload areas, including a first area including a first mounting area, a second area including a second mounting area, and a third area interposed therebetween; two mounting units to mount, on the substrate, first and second components in the first and second mounting areas, respectively; a conveyor group to convey the substrate, including first to fourth conveyors, the second and fourth conveyors being capable of receiving the substrate from the first and third conveyors in the first and second areas, respectively; and a driving mechanism capable of moving at least one of the first and second conveyors between the first and third areas and moving at least one of the third and fourth conveyors between the second and third areas.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Katsuhiko Ohno