Patent ID: 9361682
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06T,H01L,H05K

Claim Text:
1. A method of assembling a printed circuit board (PCB) with a pick-and-place machine, the method comprising: providing a pickup head including a pickup device and an imaging device; successively picking up, with the pickup device, a plurality of components from a pickup zone of the pick-and-place machine; placing each component on a substrate in accordance with predetermined locations; automatically acquiring, with the imaging device, an image of each component then placed on the PCB; automatically grouping and displaying the acquired component images in a user interface display such that images corresponding to components that were intended to be of a same component identification type are grouped together; and inspecting the PCB by analyzing the user interface display to determine whether (a) each group of component images are of a same component identification type; (b) each group of component images corresponds to an intended component identification type; and/or (c) each component was installed with the correct orientation.