Patent ID: 6223425
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
A circuit-component supplying system comprising:a single supplying device which stores both of a plurality of circuit components and a plurality of circuit-component holders, and which supplies both of the circuit components and the circuit-component holders;at least one movable member to which one of the circuit-component holders is detachably attachable; anda movable-member moving device, operatively associated with the single supplying device, which moves, in a predetermined two-dimensional area which is defined by a first axis and a second axis intersecting each other and in which at least a portion of the supplying device is located, the movable member in a first direction parallel to the first axis and a second direction parallel to the second axis so that the movable member receives said one circuit-component holder from the supplying device, and which moves, in said two-dimensional area, a holding head including the movable member and said one circuit-component holder held by the movable member, in said first and second directions so that said one circuit-component holder receives one of the circuit components from the supplying device and holds said one circuit component.