Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tomitatsu Soga

Kunio Tanaka

Takatoshi Mitsushima

Takashi Matsushima

Takashi Nakanishi

Takashi Munezane

Kimio Iizuka

Noboru Furuta

Manabu Morita

Cassettes contain electronic parts. First and second feeders are operative for feeding the electronic parts from the cassettes. A first mounting head has sucking nozzles for picking up the electronic parts fed by the first feeder. A second mounting head has sucking nozzles for picking up the electronic parts fed by the second feeder. A table arrangement is operative for holding a printed circuit board. The first and second mounting heads are alternately moved along a first direction to a region above the printed circuit board on the table arrangement. The table arrangement includes a mechanism for moving the printed circuit board on the table arrangement in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Also, the table arrangement includes a mechanisms for rotating the printed circuit board on the table arrangement about an axis perpendicular to both the first and second directions. The sucking nozzles of the first mounting head place the electronic parts on the printed circuit board on the table arrangement when the first mounting head is in the region above the printed circuit board. The sucking nozzles of the second mounting head place the electronic parts on the printed circuit board on the table arrangement when the second mounting head is in the region above the printed circuit board.

Electronic-parts mounting apparatus

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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