Patent ID: 6374146
Filing Date: 2002-04-16
Classification: B25J,G05B,Y02P,Y10T

Abstract:
A component suction site-teaching system for an electronic component-mounting apparatus including a vacuum nozzle having a nozzle end face for picking up an electronic component thereat by vacuum, the component suction site-teaching system comprising:nozzle moving means for moving said vacuum nozzle in directions of X axis and Y axis; image taking means for taking an image of said electronic component set at a pickup position; image creating means for creating a graphical image of said nozzle end face of said vacuum nozzle from shape data of said vacuum nozzle; display means for displaying on a screen thereof said image of said electronic component taken by said image taking means and said graphical image of said nozzle end face created by said image creating means, such that said graphical image of said nozzle end face is superimposed on said image of said electronic component; image control means for moving said image of said electronic component and said graphical image of said nozzle end face relative to each other on said screen of said display means, thereby effecting alignment of said graphical image of said nozzle end face with an image of a predetermined site of said electronic component; and suction site-teaching means for teaching to said nozzle moving means a location of said predetermined site of said electronic component said image of which has been aligned with said graphical image of said nozzle end face by said image control means, as a location of a suction site of said electronic component to be sucked by said vacuum nozzle.