Patent ID: 7350289

Claim:
A component feeding head apparatus for holding at a component pickup position, a component, from a mounting-side surface of the component, arrayed in a component arrangement unit and to be mounted on a substrate, then transferring the held component to a component transfer position while inverting the mounting-side surface of the component, and then transferring the component to a mounting head unit at the component transfer position so as to mount the component on the substrate by the mounting head unit, said component feeding head apparatus comprising: a head unit having a holding unit for releasably holding the component with the mounting-side surface of the component and a central axis of said holding unit being orthogonal; a head inverting device having a lifting-support-guiding section which supports said head unit in a manner allowing up-and-down movement along the central axis of said holding unit, for guiding the up-and-down movement, said head inverting device for inverting said head unit about an inversion axis arranged in a direction almost orthogonal to the central axis of said holding unit via said lifting-support-guiding section so as to invert said holding unit relative to a direction of the central axis; a head lifting device for moving said head unit up and down in a direction along the central axis of said holding unit while being guided by said lifting-support-guiding section so as to move said holding unit up and down; a head support unit for supporting said head lifting device and said head inverting device; and a head moving device for moving said head support unit between the component pickup position and the component transfer position along a movement direction which is a direction along a surface of the substrate, wherein said head unit is independent of said head inverting device and said head lifting device such that inversion of said head unit by said head inverting device is performed without inversion of said head lifting device, and such that up-and-down movement of said head unit by said head lifting device is performed without up-and-down movement of said head inverting device.