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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1998
Yoshimichi Ishii, Neyagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Mochizuki, Katano, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Components ( ) are consecutively taken out from a plurality of component feeders ( ) which supply a multiplicity of components to a component feeding position ( ) in succession, transferred to a prescribed assembling position ( ), and assembled into a product ( ), which is then transferred to and held in each of a multiplicity of holding recesses provided in a product storing means ( ). This method allows the components to be assembled into a product by a component assembling apparatus of compact and simple construction, as well as permits the assembled product to be held and carried in the holding recesses of the product storing means to the next step of the process.