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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2001
Kunio Oe, Chiryu, JP;
Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd., Chiryu, JP;
Abstract
A nozzle-mounting device for removably mounting, on a nozzle holder, a suction nozzle for holding an electric component by suction, wherein the nozzle holder includes one of a first fitting portion and a second fitting portion which respectively have an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface and which are arranged to effect a fitting engagement with each other at the inner and outer circumferential surfaces, while the suction nozzle includes the other of the first and second fitting portions, and one of the first and second fitting portions is provided with a first abutting portion located at an axially intermediate portion of mutually fitting parts of the inner and outer circumferential surfaces, while the other of the first and second fitting portions is provided with a second abutting portion arranged to be brought into abutting contact with the first abutting portion in a direction intersecting the axes of the fitting portions, and wherein a pressing device is provided to force the inner and outer circumferential surfaces against each other by abutting contact of the first abutting portion with the second abutting portion.