Patent ID: 6189733
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
A component feeder comprising:a feeder body;a rotary drum rotating relative to said feeder body about a horizontal axis;a component storage housing formed between said feeder body and said rotary drum for storing chip components;a circumferential wall formed in said rotary drum, which divides said component storage housing into an inner housing and an outer housing;supplying means for supplying a predetermined number of chip components at a time from the inner housing to the outer housing in accordance with the rotation of said rotary drum;an aligning and discharging section disposed in the outer housing for aligning chip components in a line and discharging them;a return path for returning chip components from the outer housing to the inner housing; andraking-up means rotating along the outer housing for raking up excess chip components in the outer housing so as to return them to the inner housing via said return path.