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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:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 1/114 ; B23P 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 1/114 ; B23P 1/900 ;
Abstract
A component mounter which includes a component feeder carriage; mounting head having two or more suction nozzles for picking up a component from the feeder carriage; image capturing means for taking an image of each component held by the suction nozzles; and a recognizer for recognizing each component based on image data obtained by the image capturing means according to a mounting sequence of each component. Each component is immediately and individually mounted on a mounting target after recognition. This configuration allows to eliminate wasteful standby time, thus offering efficient component mounting.