Patent ID: 8782875
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H05K,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A component mounting apparatus comprising: a conveyor line comprising a plurality of substrate conveying conveyors which are arranged in parallel and each of which is configured to convey a substrate and comprises a substrate holding unit configured to position and hold the substrate; a component supplying unit positioned lateral to the conveyor line, and configured to supply a component to be mounted to the substrate; a substrate distributing unit configured to distribute substrates delivered from an upstream apparatus to the plurality of substrate conveying conveyors; a substrate conveyance controlling unit configured to control the substrate distributing unit and the substrate conveying conveyors, thereby performing a substrate conveying operation of carrying in one of the substrates delivered into the substrate holding unit of any one of the substrate conveying conveyors; a component mounting mechanism configured to pick up a component from the component supplying unit by a mounting head, and configured to mount the component to the substrate positioned and held by the substrate holding unit; and a signal outputting unit configured to determine, based on a result of a detection of existence or non-existence of a substrate in the substrate conveying conveyor, whether the substrate conveying conveyor is in a state where the substrate conveying conveyor can receive a new substrate or not, the signal outputting unit being configured to output, based on a result of the determination, a substrate request signal for requesting carrying in of the new substrate into the substrate conveying conveyor, wherein in a case where the substrate request signal is output for the plurality of substrate conveying conveyors, the substrate conveyance controlling unit causes the new substrate to be carried in from the substrate distributing unit into one of the substrate conveying conveyors which is closest to the component supplying unit.