Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Werner Jung

Stefan Dietrich

Friedrich Pedall

Lothar M&uuml;ller

Daniel Metz

Bernd-Friedrich Scholl

Franz Haan

Birgit Haase

Kurt Gromer

An apparatus for the laser processing of workpieces with shortened processing time. Two laser units that can be simultaneously operated are directed towards each other. Workpieces, for example printed circuit boards, are moved between the two laser units such that the two sides of the workpieces are simultaneously processed. As a result the processing time is considerably shortened.

Device for the laser processing of workpieces

Workpieces in the shape of plates can be transported from an input station to a workstation and from there to an output station by means of two manipulation device in a working plane. A gripper of one of the manipulation means can be displaced between the input station and the workstation. The gripper of the other manipulation device can be displaced between the workstation and the output station, whereby the displacement ranges overlap. As the first half of the processing time has been approximately completed in the workstation, the workpiece r is transferred from the gripper on the input side to the gripper on the output side. Meanwhile, the respectively free gripper returns to its station and to the workstation, so that the processing can be carried out almost without any interruption.

Apparatus for the automated processing of workpieces

An apparatus for automatically equipping printed circuit boards with components includes at least two equipping heads arranged stationarily at a distance from one another. A printed circuit board displacement apparatus moves corresponding printed circuit boards simultaneously into corresponding equipping positions relative to the equipping heads. Each equipping head is actuated when the printed circuit board allocated to that equipping head is moved into the corresponding equipping position. After the equipping program has been executed, the printed circuit boards are clocked for work by one equipping head division so that an unequipped printed circuit board is supplied to the first equipping head in the conveying direction and a completely equipped printed circuit board is discharged from the last equipping head. This spatially separate, serial equipping of the printed circuit boards enables the equipping heads to be reloaded when they are not actively engaged in executing an equipping event.

Apparatus for equipping printed circuited boards

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Waghäusel, Germany

Werner Jung