Patent ID: 8402639

Claim:
An electronic component mounting system including, on an upstream side of a component loading unit for loading electronic components on a substrate, a screen printing unit for printing paste for use in bonding the electronic components on the substrate and a coating unit that applies a coat of resin for use in bonding electronic components, the system comprising: a plurality of individual printing mechanisms that are provided in the screen printing unit, that can independently perform printing operation under separate control, and that can separately perform tooling change operation incidental to switching of a type of a substrate subject to printing; a plurality of printed substrate conveyance mechanisms, and a coating operation mechanism that are provided in the coating unit, the plurality of printed substrate conveyance mechanisms respectively conveying printed substrates carried out of the plurality of individual printing mechanisms, and the coating operation mechanism subjecting the printed substrates conveyed by the plurality of printed substrate conveyance mechanisms to the resin coating operation; and a plurality of coated substrate conveyance mechanisms and a plurality of component loading mechanisms that are provided in the component loading unit, the plurality of coated substrate conveyance mechanisms respectively conveying coated substrates delivered from the coating unit and the plurality of component loading mechanisms subjecting the coated substrates conveyed by the plurality of coated substrate conveyance mechanisms to component loading operation, wherein a plurality of individual mounting lanes, each of which is built by combination of a corresponding individual printing mechanism of the plurality of individual printing mechanism, a corresponding substrate conveyance mechanism of the plurality of printed substrate conveyance mechanisms and the plurality of coated substrate conveyance mechanisms, and a corresponding component loading mechanism of the plurality of component loading mechanisms, are activated so that a plurality of substrates are concurrently subjected to component mounting operation.