Patent ID: 9498945
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: B41F,H05K

Claim Text:
1. A component mounting line comprising: a screen printing apparatus that prints paste on a substrate; and a plurality of component mounting apparatuses that are arranged in series on a downstream side of the screen printing apparatus and perform a component mounting-relevant operation on the substrate on which the paste has been printed by the screen printing apparatus, wherein the screen printing apparatus includes wherein each of the plurality of component mounting apparatuses includes a first substrate carrying lane and a second substrate carrying lane which are arranged in the pattern arrangement direction, carries the first type substrate on which the first pattern has been printed in the first substrate carrying lane, performs a component mounting-relevant operation on the first type substrate, carries the second type substrate on which the second pattern has been printed in the second substrate carrying lane, and performs a component mounting-relevant operation on the second type substrate, and wherein the screen printing apparatus selects a type of the substrate to be carried in depending on whether a substrate is carried in the second component mounting apparatus downstream from the screen printing apparatus.