Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Manabu Morita

Kunio Tanaka

Takatoshi Mitsushima

Takashi Nakanishi

Takeshi Nishiguchi

Takashi Matsushima

Shigetoshi Negishi

Takayuki Fujita

Mikio Yasuda

Kenji Kato

Tomitatsu Soga

A parts feeder is provided which may be employed in feeding electronic parts such as chip components to a mounting device for mounting them on a printed circuit board, for example. The parts feeder is designed to lift up parts supplied from an inlet to a parts orientation chamber to an outlet along an inner peripheral surface of the parts orientation chamber using a magnetic mechanism. A parts orienting path is defined upstream of the outlet which allows only the parts oriented in given directions to pass therethrough. A guide member is disposed within the parts orientation chamber to guide the parts, which are unoriented in alignment with a parts transport path connecting the outlet and a parts pickup station and which are dropped from the outlet, to an inlet for facilitating transportation of the parts by the magnetic mechanism to the parts orienting path, thereby avoiding jamming of the parts in the parts orienting path.

Parts feeder

Chip-type electronic part storage casing and supply cassette using same

A chip component feeder is provided which includes a chip component storage box, a pick-up slider, a first feeding unit, and a second feeding unit. The pick-up slider slides to enter an outlet of the chip component storage box for picking up chip components and leads them to a feeding path formed in the first feeding unit communicating with the second feeding unit. The feeding path of the first feeding unit has a rectangular cross section suitable for the chip components of rectangular shape as well as square or circular shape.

Structure of chip component feeder

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Neyagawa, Japan

Manabu Morita