Patent ID: 8100413

Claim:
A workpiece vacuum chuck head used to vacuum-chuck a light, minute workpiece and to release and place the vacuum-chucked workpiece on a workpiece placement surface, comprising: a base section; a workpiece vacuum chuck section; and a lower mechanism section for connecting together the base section and the workpiece vacuum chuck section; wherein: the base section, the workpiece vacuum chuck section, and the follower mechanism section are in the form of an integral structure of a spring-tempered metal; the base section has an attachment surface for attaching the workpiece vacuum chuck head to a head drive mechanism; the workpiece vacuum chuck section has a workpiece vacuum chuck surface for vacuum-chucking the workpiece, and a negative-pressure chamber provided within the workpiece vacuum chuck section and opening at the workpiece vacuum chuck surface via a suction hole to hold the workpiece on the workpiece vacuum chuck surface; and the follower mechanism section has a structure that is easily elastically deformable in three dimensions, so as to cause the workpiece vacuum chuck surface to follow an inclination of the workpiece placement surface.