Patent ID: 7251354
Filing Date: 2007-07-31
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. An electronic component inspection apparatus, comprising: an inspection portion which inspects a component; a component standby portion in which the component waits before the component is inspected by the inspection portion; a component storage portion which stores the component after the component has been inspected; a component transferring device which has a suction nozzle that applies suction to pick up the component and transfer the component between the component standby portion or the component storage portion and the inspection portion; an image capturing device arranged to capture an image of the component that is being transferred by the component transferring device; and a controlling device which transfers the component to the inspection portion, via a position in which the image capturing device captures an image of the component when the component is held by the suction nozzle and is being transferred from the component standby portion to the inspection portion, and based on a result of the captured image of the component, the controlling device controls the drive of the component transferring device so that the component is set in the inspection portion; wherein the inspection portion, the component standby portion, the component storage portion and the image capturing device, are arranged along a line within a range of motion of the suction nozzle; and the component transferring device includes a track that extends in a direction along which the inspection portion, the component standby portion, the component storage portion and the image capturing device are disposed, and moves the suction nozzle along the track.