Fuji Corporation

Shigeo Saito

Takuya Nagaishi

Yasunari Mizuno

Kenji Tanaka

Itaru Soga

Fumiya Kato

A bending device is provided in a tape feeder. In the bending device, lead wires of a bending target lead component that has reached a bending position of lead component tape fed by a feeding device are bent. In addition, as the lead wires are cut by a cutting device, bent lead components are separated from a carrier tape, and the bent lead components are supplied one by one. In this manner, in the tape feeder, as the lead wires of the lead component tape are bent, the bent lead components are supplied.

Tape feeder

With a recognition device of the present invention, when a target component that is an imaging target is moved in a direction from one to another of an upper limit imaging position and a lower limit imaging position, a protruding section of the target component is imaged at each of a predetermined pitch (0.1 mm). Then, it is determined whether it is possible to recognize the position of the protruding section of the target component based on image data of each pitch (O: recognition possible, X: recognition not possible). Here, from among imaging positions (Hto H) according to image data for which it was determined to be possible to recognize the position of the protruding section of the target component, a position (H) that is at a central point between a position closest to the upper limit imaging position (H) and a position closest to the lower limit imaging position (H) is decided as a recommended imaging position. By this, it is possible to image the protruding section close to a central point inside the emitting range of the light emitted from the light source, meaning that the protruding section is appropriately imaged and the position of the protruding section can be appropriately recognized.

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Toyota, Japan

Shigeo Saito