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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 07, 1998
Takashi Ando, Kofu, JP;
Yoshihisa Naitoh, Yamanashi, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A component feeder being capable of supplying flat and minute components stably and rapidly. The component feeder comprises an agitation room 111 in which the components 102 are stirred by air, and a component conveying path 113 connected to the front of the agitation room 111 into which the components 102 of certain posture are blown, where they are aligned and transferred by air toward a given component feeding position. When the component 102 has the dimensions of l>w>t where l is the length, w is the width, and t is the thickness, the horizontal width D of a front part 111c of the agitation room 111 nearest to the component conveying path 113 as well as of an opening of the component conveying path 113 connecting to the agitation room 111 is set to be w>D>t