Patent ID: 6359646
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
A part mounting device where an arbitrarily attachable/detachable picking-up nozzle is attached to a nozzle shaft of a mounting head of a working tower, an electronic part is picked up with the picking-up nozzle from a part supplying device, an image of the electronic part is recognized, a controlling unit for calculating correction values of a mounting position of the electronic part based on a recognition result is included, and the electronic part is automatically mounted on a printed circuit board based on the correction values from the controlling unit, the working tower comprising:an optical waveguide composed of an optical fiber; image transmitting means for transmitting an image of an electronic part picked up by the picking-up nozzle via the optical waveguide; and an image recognizing means for capturing the image of the electronic part, which is transmitted by said image transmitting means.