Patent ID: 8797397

Claim:
A method of operating a chip mounter, the method comprising: preparing an electronic part on a part supply unit, which includes a conveyor and a nozzle module, and a printed circuit board on a main body; gripping the electronic part using a part conveyor unit to move the electronic part along a part moving path on the part supply unit and the main body, and the conveyor is combined with the nozzle module to move the nozzle module along the part moving path, and the nozzle module moves along X-, Y-, and Z-axes on the part moving path to suction the electronic part; photographing the electronic part using an image processing unit when the electronic part is located at a part recognition region within the part moving path without stoppage and during the movement of the electronic part; transmitting a photographed image of the electronic part to a controller using the image processing unit; comparing the photographed image with a reference image using the controller; and displaying the photographed image to the exterior using the controller; wherein the part recognition region is set by at least one coordinate in the controller to be located on a light source of the image processing unit.