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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:
May. 25, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382312 ;
Abstract
An image acquiring device for a component mounting apparatus includes a line sensor provided with photodetecting elements in one array or a plurality of arrays, and a CCD register for transmitting electric charges accumulated in the photodetecting elements to an output part. The device also includes an illumination unit having one or a plurality of light sources of a high directivity for feeding light to illuminate an electronic component. The one or plurality of light sources are arranged to condense the light to an image-acquiring line of the line sensor.