Patent ID: 8336195
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An electronic component mounting apparatus comprising: a feeder base; a component feeding unit disposed on the feeder base and advancing a storage tape having storage portions containing electronic components therein so that each of the electronic components comes to a component pickup position where a suction nozzle is configured to pick up the electronic component fed by the component feeding unit for mounting the electronic component on a printed board; a seam detection device provided for the component feeding unit and detecting a connection tape connecting two storage tapes; a counter counting the advancement of the storage tape, the counter being configured to count a first predetermined number corresponding to the advancement of the storage tape after the connection tape is detected by the seam detection device to the component pickup position; a recognition camera configured to take an image of one of the storage portions of the storage tape when the counter counts to the first predetermined number; a recognition processing device performing a recognition processing to the image taken by the recognition camera; and a control device configured to adjust the component pickup position based on a result of the recognition processing of the recognition processing device.