Patent ID: 8091215

Claim:
A mounting apparatus to which a plurality of tape feeders are attachable, each of the tape feeders successively feeding components held on a component supplying tape at predetermined intervals to a predetermined pickup position, the mounting apparatus comprising: a transfer head to pick up and transfer a component fed to the pickup position for each of the tape feeders to a predetermined mounting position on a board; and a tape feeding action controller, said tape feeding action controller is adapted to control each of the tape feeders so as to feed components held on the tape to the pickup position before the transfer head picks up a component, and carry out a tape feeding action to place the component that has not been picked up in the pickup position again, by allowing a reverse feeding action in which the component left in the pickup position is returned to a position upstream of the pickup position in the tape feeding direction by at least one frame which corresponds to an interval between the components, when the transfer head has not picked up a component.