Patent ID: 7712208

Claim:
An electronic component mounting apparatus comprising: a feeder base; a component feeding unit disposed on the feeder base and advancing a storage tape comprising storage portions containing electronic components therein so that each of the electronic components comes to a component pickup position where a suction nozzle is configured to pick up the electronic component fed by the component feeding unit for mounting the electronic component on a printed board; a seam detection device provided for the component feeding unit and detecting a seam portion between two storage tapes; a connection tape attached to the two storage tapes at the seam portion and having an opening, the connection tape covering a plurality of storage portions of the two storage tapes at the seam portion so as to expose at least portions of the plurality of storage portions through the opening; a recognition camera taking an image of one of the storage portions located at the seam portion through the opening of the connection tape when the seam portion comes to the component pickup position; a recognition processing device performing a recognition processing to the image of one of the covered storage portions taken by the recognition camera; and a control device preforming an adjustment of the component pickup position based on a result of the recognition processing on the image of one of the covered storage portions and starting a pickup operation with the suction nozzle for a trailing storage tape of the two storage tapes based on the adjustment.