Patent ID: 7677383
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
1. Apparatus providing a guide path for electronic components having side face surfaces, with a guide channel, in which the components are conducted past a light barrier which detects the components, said light barrier having a transmitter and receiver arranged laterally next to the guide path, such that the light beams are introduced from the side of the guide path into the guide channel, wherein the guide path has guide elements, by means of which the components are guided, at least in the area of the light barrier, obliquely to the direction of the light beams, the guide elements being structured to cause the components to produce shadow surfaces which are higher than the side face surfaces of the components, wherein the guide elements comprise a lower longitudinal rail and a higher longitudinal rail, and wherein a guide web opposite the lower longitudinal rail projects further into the guide channel than a guide web opposite the higher longitudinal rail, such that on both sides of the guide channel the distance interval between each longitudinal rail and each guide web allocated to it is at least essentially the same.