Patent ID: 9592986
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B65H,H05K

Claim:
1. A component supplying apparatus for serially-feeding a plurality of carrier tapes accommodating components in a tape feeding direction which is a tape longitudinal direction, and for keeping a subsequent carrier tape waiting with the subsequent carrier tape stacked on a preceding carrier tape, the component supplying apparatus comprising: a tape guiding part having a tape guide surface facing a lower surface of the carrier tape and guiding the carrier tape so as to make the carrier tape move along a tape path, a preceding tape contact part capable to climb onto an upper surface of the preceding carrier tape by coming into contact with the preceding tape moving in the tape feeding direction along the tape guide surface of the tape guiding part, a subsequent tape blocking part configured to wait on the upstream side of the preceding tape contact part in the tape feeding direction while facing to and keeping a distance from the tape guide surface of the tape guiding part so as to enable the carrier tape to pass between the subsequent tape blocking part and the tape guiding part, to move downwardly from the waiting position toward the upper surface of the preceding carrier tape when the preceding tape contact part has climbed onto the upper surface of the preceding carrier tape, and to move upwardly from the preceding carrier tape toward the waiting position when the preceding tape contact part has climbed down from the upper surface of the preceding carrier tape, a swingable stopper part having free ends positioned upstream and downstream sides of a swinging center thereof in the tape feeding direction, and further having the subsequent tape blocking part on the upstream free end side, and a movable locking part having the preceding tape contact part and a stopper contact part locking the subsequent tape blocking part of the stopper part at the waiting position by coming into contact with the downstream free end side of the stopper part from at least above, wherein the locking part is configured to move by the climbing of the preceding tape contact part of the locking part onto the upper surface of the preceding carrier tape moving in the tape feeding direction, so that the stopper contact part of the locking part moves away from the stopper part so as to unlock the subsequent tape blocking part of the stopper part and, consequently, the stopper part swings until the subsequent tape blocking part thereof comes into contact with the upper surface of the preceding carrier tape, and wherein the subsequent tape blocking part is configured to keep the subsequent carrier tape waiting by contacting a front end of the subsequent carrier tape stacked on the preceding carrier tape while the preceding tape contact part is on the preceding carrier tape.