Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Motohiro Higuchi

Minoru Kitani

Shigeru Matsukawa

Kazuo Kido

Kazunori Kanai

Ryoji Inutsuka

Seikou Abe

Manabu Morioka

Shozo Kadota

Kei Tsunemasa

Masami Fujiyama

A component supply device that supplies a component stored in a carrier tape to a component mounting apparatus, the component supply device includes a curl corrector that corrects curl of an empty tape which is a carrier tape from which the component is picked up by the component mounting apparatus.

Component supply device

A component supplying apparatus comprises a tape guide surface facing a lower surface of the carrier tape, a preceding tape contact part climbing onto a upper surface of the preceding carrier tape, and a subsequent tape blocking part configured to wait on the upstream side of the preceding tape contact part in a tape feeding direction while keeping a distance from the tape guide surface so as to enable the carrier tape to pass between the subsequent tape blocking part and the tape guide surface, and to move downwardly toward the preceding carrier tape when the preceding tape contact part is climbed onto the preceding carrier tape. The subsequent tape blocking part keeps the subsequent carrier tape waiting by contacting a front end of the subsequent carrier tape stacked on the preceding carrier tape onto which the preceding tape contact part climbs.

Component supplying apparatus and component supplying method

A component supplying apparatus comprises an inclined straight path Pwhich is for the carrier tape and which extends obliquely upward, a horizontal straight path Pwhich is for the carrier tape and which extends in the horizontal direction from a front end of the inclined path Pand runs through the component supply position Q, a first sprocket wheel engaging with the feed holes of the carrier tape within the inclined path P, a guide member locating the carrier tape in the width direction within the horizontal path, a top tape removing device disposed above the inclined path Pbetween the first sprocket wheel and the horizontal path Pand partially removing the top tape from the base tape so as to expose the components, and a sprocket wheel drive device rotating the first sprocket wheel.

A component supplying apparatus has a tape guide part for guiding a carrier tape, a blade for entering between a top tape and a base tape, and a first tape press part for facing the carrier tape on an upstream side of a top tape removing position. A first biasing part biases the first tape press part to have the carrier tape held between the tape guide part and the first tape press part and to attain positioning of the carrier tape in thickness direction thereof. A sprocket wheel wedges the carrier tape between the tape guide part and the first tape press part, and a second biasing part presses the carrier tape against the tape guide part by a second tape press part.

An object of the present invention is to provide a component a mounting apparatus capable of accurately determining minute mounting applied pressure. The component mounting head of the component mounting apparatus includes: a movable part having a suction bit section and a movable shaft, a weight compensation mechanism for engaging with the movable shaft to compensate for the gravitational force of the total weight of the movable part and a component suctioned to the suction bit section, on the basis of the total weight; a force determination unit for determining a force applied to the movable part in the vertical direction; and a drive unit for moving the force determination unit in the vertical direction. The control unit of the component mounting apparatus controls the drive unit in such a manner that the determination value of the force determination unit becomes a target value.

Component mounting apparatus, component mounting head, and component mounting method

The component mounting apparatus includes a component delivery unit, a chuck ( ) provided on the component delivery unit, a component transfer unit ( ) for receiving a component held by the chuck ( ), and a head ( ) for receiving the component held by the component transfer unit ( ). The head ( ) includes a main head body ( ), a vertically moving mechanism ( ) for the main head body ( ), insertion nails ( ) provided at a bottom portion of the main head body ( ), an opening/closing mechanism ( ) for the insertion nails ( ), and a turning mechanism ( ) for moving the insertion nails ( ) in forward and backward directions. A cam plate ( ) constituting the turning mechanism ( ) is mounted detachably on the main head body ( ).

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Nara, Japan

Motohiro Higuchi