Patent ID: 6526652
Filing Date: 2003-03-04
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for automatically resetting a printed-wiring-board supporting device including a supporting table and at least one supporting member which is set on a supporting surface of the supporting table to support a back surface of a printed wiring board, the apparatus comprising:a storing device in which said at least one supporting member is stored; a holding head which holds the supporting member; a moving device which moves at least one of the holding head, the supporting table, and the storing device, relative to at least one other of the holding head, the supporting table, and the storing device; and a control device which includes a control-information memory in which prescribed control information is stored, and a computer including an information processor that processes the control information stored in the control-information memory, and which controls, according to the control information, the moving device so that the holding head takes the supporting member from a storing position in the storing device and sets the supporting member at a setting position on the supporting surface of the supporting table, and takes the supporting member from the setting position and stores the supporting member at the storing position, the computer further including at least one of (a) a first starting means for starting, in response to a start command supplied from a host computer, the information processor to process the control information, and (b) a second starting means for starting, in response to a start command input by an operator through an input device, the information processor to process the control information.