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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1994
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
Various component supplying cassettes contain components of different kinds and feed predetermined numbers of the components to take-out openings of the cassettes. A tool supplying cassette contains several kinds of tools for use with the components or for use in assembling the components and selectively feeds the tools to a take-out opening of the cassette. The component and tool supplying cassettes are set in or removed from a component/tool supplying unit of an apparatus using the components and tools in accordance with operating procedures of the apparatus and the quantity of consumption of components, thereby allowing supply of necessary components and tools to the apparatus for every necessary occasion.