Patent ID: 7204068
Filing Date: 2007-04-17
Classification: B65B,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of populating a carrier tape with components, comprising: providing a packaging system; providing a carrier tape in the packaging system with passage openings for populating the carrier tape with components; picking up individual components from a support table arranged underneath a guide plate of the packaging system by means of a vacuum pipette; lifting the component into one of the passage openings in the carrier tape by means of a vertical lifting movement of the vacuum pipette; wiping the component off the vacuum pipette by means of the carrier tape; picking up the component and the carrier tape as they are wiped off the vacuum pipette by means of an upper guide and by means of a lower guide; closing an upper side of the tape by applying an upper cover film; and closing an under side of the tape by applying a lower cover film.