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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 16, 1996
Stuart Baker, Santa Ynez, CA (US);
George Michael Wohlhieter, Escondido, CA (US);
Amistar Corporation, San Marcos, CA (US);
Abstract
A surface mount placement system with one or more carriages includes, on each carriage, multiple groups of quills, each group being adjustable on one of two principal orthogonal directions of a plane containing a component mounting zone. The quills of each group are independently rotatable with respect to the quills of the other group and are further independently moveable in a third direction orthogonal to the two principal directions. A carriage is moved to the component mounting zone where the two groups are adjusted with respect to each other for placement of at least two components, one from each group, in a single place step.