Patent ID: 6705000
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: H05K,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A nozzle-mounting device for removably mounting, on a nozzle holder, a suction nozzle for holding an electric component by suction under a negative pressure, said nozzle-mounting device comprising:said nozzle holder including one of a first fitting portion and a second fitting portion which respectively have an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface and which are arranged to effect a fitting engagement with each other at said inner and outer circumferential surfaces, said suction nozzle including the other of said first and second fitting portions; one of said first and second fitting portions being provided with a first abutting portion located at an axially intermediate portion of mutually fitting parts of said inner and outer circumferential surfaces, while the other of said first and second fitting portions being provided with a second abutting portion which is arranged to be brought into abutting contact with said first abutting portion in a direction intersecting axes of said first and second fitting portions; and a pressing device operable to force said inner and outer circumferential surfaces against each other in one radial direction of said first and second fitting portions by abutting contact of said first abutting portion with said second abutting portion, such that said inner and outer circumferential surfaces are held in contact with each other at predetermined one circumferential position of each of said inner and outer circumferential surfaces.