Patent ID: 6691400
Filing Date: 2004-02-17
Classification: H05K,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An electronic parts mounting apparatus comprising:a first parts feeder including a plurality of cassettes each of which stores therein electronic parts and has a pick-up station; a second parts feeder including a plurality of cassettes each of which stores therein electronic parts and has a pick-up station, said second parts feeder being positioned at a preselected interval away from said first parts feeder in a first direction; a table for holding thereon a printed board on which the electronic parts are to be mounted, said table being disposed within the preselected interval between said first and second parts feeders and designed to move in a second direction perpendicular to said first direction linearly; a first mounting head including a plurality of pick-up nozzles movable in a vertical direction for simultaneously picking up the electronic parts from the pick-up stations, said first mounting head being disposed so as to move in said first direction linearly, all of the pick-up nozzles of said first mounting head being arranged adjacent to one another in a single linear array; a second mounting head including a plurality of pick-up nozzles movable in the vertical direction for simultaneously picking up the electronic parts from the pick-up stations, said second mounting head being disposed so as to move in said first direction linearly, all of the pick-up nozzles of said second mounting head being arranged adjacent to one another in a single linear array; a first and a second sensor monitoring the presence and orientation of the electronic parts picked up by the pick-up nozzles of said first and second mounting heads and providing signals indicative thereof during linear movement of said first and second mounting heads in said first direction; a controller for controlling linear movement of said table in the second direction and the linear movement of said first and second mounting heads in the first direction so that said first and second mounting heads pick up the electronic parts from the pick-up stations and then mount the electronic parts on given places of the printed board held on said table.