Patent ID: 8205328

Claim:
A components packaging method in a components packaging system comprising a stamping head which is provided so as to move freely on a guide provided along a first direction which is horizontal and in which a components supply portion for supplying a component and a substrate holding portion for holding a substrate are aligned and which stamps a paste on to a substrate held at the substrate holding portion by use of a stamping tool, a pick-up head which is provided so as to move freely on the guide and which picks up a components supplied by the components supply portion by use of a pick-up tool, a mounting head which is provided so as to move freely on the guide and which receives the component picked up by the pick-up head by use of a mounting tool to mount the component so received on the substrate on to which the paste has been stamped by the stamping head, and a tools holding member which is provided on an overlapping area of moving areas over which the pick-up head, the mounting head and the stamping head can move, respectively, between the components supply portion and the substrate holding portion and which holds replacement tools for the pick-up tool, the mounting tool and the stamping tool on a moving table which can move freely in a second direction which is horizontal and which is at right angles to the first direction, the method for packaging the component in a predetermined position on the substrate comprising the steps of: disposing the replacement pick-up tool, the replacement mounting tool and the replacement stamping tool on the tools holding member so that an order in the first direction in which the replacement pick-up tool, the replacement mounting tool and the replacement stamping tool are arranged is the same as an order in the first direction in which the pick-up head, the mounting head and the stamping head are aligned; replacing the pick-up tool with the replacement pick-up tool; picking up the component with the replacement pick-up tool; replacing the mounting tool with the replacement mounting tool; receiving the component picked up with the replacement mounting tool; replacing the stamping tool with the replacement stamping tool; and stamping a paste on to a substrate held on the substrate holding portion with the replacement stamping tool.