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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2001
Noriaki Yoshida, Ikeda, JP;
Takeshi Takeda, Osaka-fu, JP;
Akira Kabeshita, Hirakata, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
In accordance with a component mounting method, a component stored in a component feeder is held by a component holding member and is then mounted in a mounting position on an object. The method includes, when a mounting posture of the component in which the component is mounted onto the object is inclined with respect to a basic posture of the component by a mounting angle, the operation of holding the component from the component feeder by the component holding member that has preliminarily been rotated to the mounting angle in such a direction as to depart from a reference posture of the component holding member prior to the mounting of the component on the object. And afterwards, the component holding member is rotated in a specified direction to finally return the component holding member to the reference posture, and then the component is mounted on the object.