Patent ID: 6568069
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: H05K,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus for equipping printed circuit boards with electrical components, said apparatus having a chassis with two linear longitudinal guides extending essentially parallel to one another in a first direction with the guides being immediately adjacent to one another and facing away from each other, at least one carriage being displaceable on each longitudinal guide, each carriage having a transverse bar extending from the carriage in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, each transverse bar providing a transverse guide for a longitudinal guidance of at least one processing head for printed circuit boards being displaceable along said second direction on said bar, the bars of the carriages on one of said longitudinal guides extending in an opposite direction to the bars of the carriages associated with the other of the longitudinal guides so that each head is movable in a plane defined by the first and second directions, each head having a nozzle movable in a third direction perpendicular to the plane of the first and second direction for inserting an electrical component on the circuit board, and the chassis having two stationary processing locations for holding two circuit boards, said locations being spaced apart in the second direction with the two longitudinal guides extending therebetween, so that two circuit boards may be simultaneously equipped.