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Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Koji Saito, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 15/04 (2006.01); B65B 35/10 (2006.01); B65B 57/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B 15/04 (2013.01); B65B 35/10 (2013.01); B65B 57/14 (2013.01); B65G 2201/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a taping apparatus including: a tray storage device supplying a designated one of plural kinds of trays on which respective different kinds of parts are scattered; a carrier tape feed device intermittently moving a designated one of plural kinds of carrier tapes which correspond to the respective different kinds of parts; a first camera capturing an image of the scattered parts on the designated tray; a first image recognizing device recognizing respective centers of the scattered parts; a rotary head individually sucking the scattered parts to rotatable suction nozzles; a second camera capturing an image of the parts sucked to the suction nozzles; a second image recognizing device recognizing respective orientations of the sucked parts; and a part inserting device adjusting the orientations of the sucked parts to orientations insertable into part storage recesses defined in the designated carrier tape and then inserting the parts into the part storage recesses, respectively.


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