Patent ID: 7217075

Claim:
In a method of controlling a tape feeder comprising a tape feeding portion structured to selectively feed manual feeding tapes and automatic feeding tapes to a tape heating unit, a stack cassette having the automatic feeding tapes therein, and a tape moving path moving the automatic feeding tapes in the stack cassette to the tape feeding portion, wherein the tape moving path includes a slot into which the manual feeding tapes are externally input, an automatic feeding tape sensor, and a tape feeding sensor, and the tape feeding portion includes a tape aligning position sensor sensing the position where the automatic feeding tape or the manual feeding tape has been fed to the tape heating unit, the method is characterized in that the manual feeding tape prior to the automatic feeding tape is moved to the tape feeding portion by a signal of the tape feeding sensor when the automatic feeding tape sensor and the tape feeding sensor respectively sense the automatic feeding tape and the manual feeding tape.