Patent ID: 6857546
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: B65H,H05K

Abstract:
1. A tape feeder, for supplying electronic parts held on a carrier tape to a pick-up position for a mount head of an electronic part mounting apparatus by feeding the carrier tape in pitch-feed motion, comprising: plural tape feed mechanisms each including: wherein said first bevel gears are arranged in positions where they hold their shaft axis in common, said electric motors having a diameter are arranged in radial pattern so that their rotary shaft directions coincide with each other toward the shaft axis of the first bevel gears, wherein the shafts form an angle α such that the motors are not superimposed with respect to each other as viewed parallel to the shaft axis of the first bevel gears and wherein the width required to arrange multiple motors is less than the combined width of the diameter of the multiple motors, and said plural tape feed mechanisms are arranged in parallel positions.