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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1987
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bernd Schneider, Munich, DE;
Stefan Mueller, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin and Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23P / ; B23P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29705 ; 29 3 / ; 29407 ; 29741 ; 29759 ;
Abstract
In the automatic equipping of, for example, printed circuit boards with components, the problem of the unknown position of the component legs occurs. According to the invention, the positions of the component legs in a component picked up by a gripper are measured by a sensor immediately before plug-in. This sensor is essentially composed of two independently horizontally movable perforated plates, each including an infrared emitting diode which emits onto a stationary position photodiode situated therebelow. The measured result can be employed for the positional correction or for the rejection or acceptance of the component.