Patent ID: 9332686
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: H05K,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A lower supporting pin layout determination apparatus which determines whether or not a lower supporting pin for receiving a downside of substrate is correctly arrayed in an electronic parts mounting apparatus that mounts electronic parts on a substrate held by a substrate holding section, wherein the lower supporting pin has a shape including a base to be supported by a support plate placed in the substrate holding section, a shaft extending upward from the base, a smaller-diameter section that is on an upper portion of the shaft and in which an outer diameter of the shaft becomes smaller, and a contact surface that is formed on top of the smaller-diameter section and that contacts and receives a downside of the substrate; and the lower supporting pin layout determination apparatus has: an imaging unit that captures an image of the lower supporting pin from above, so as to acquire a planar image; a shaft shape detection section that subjects the image to recognition processing, so as to detect an outer shape of the shaft at a recognition reference position set at a height where a transition occurs from an outer periphery of the shaft to the smaller-diameter section, the smaller-diameter section appearing as an area of the image that is dark in a bright background; and a pin layout determination section that compares a planar position of the lower supporting pin determined from the detected outer shape with preset pin layout data, thereby determining whether or not the lower supporting pin is correctly arrayed, wherein the shaft assumes a circular cross sectional profile; and the smaller-diameter section includes a small diameter portion having an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the shaft and the small diameter portion has on its top the contact surface and a tapered portion in which a periphery of the small diameter portion and a periphery of the shaft are interconnected unit of a conical tapered surface.