Patent ID: 7032299
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: H01R,H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for mounting electronic parts comprising: (a) a mounting head for holding and transferring electronic parts; (b) an image reader for taking images of the electronic parts when held by said mounting head; (c) an image recognition section for recognizing the images taken by said image reader so as to detect positions of the electronic parts when held by said mounting head; (d) a data storage for storing mounting schedule data specifying a mounting sequence to be performed by said mounting head for the electronic parts when held by said mounting head, and for storing part data of kinds of the electronic parts, with the part data including image capture window information indicative of image capture windows to be set within an image-taking field of view of said image reader; and (e) a controller for causing said mounting head to perform a mounting operation based on positions of the electronic parts, as detected by said image recognition section, and the mounting schedule data, wherein said image reader includes: (b1) a photodetecting section having pixels; (b2) a pixel selecting information generating section for generating, based on the mounting schedule data and the image capture window information, pixel selecting information specifying some of the pixels, as specified pixels, that are to become image capture regions in said photodetecting section; and (b3) a pixel selecting section for allowing image signals to be selectively output from the specified pixels.