Patent ID: 8646171

Claim:
A component mounting apparatus comprising: a conveyor device for sucking and holding a flat plate-shaped substrate in a substantially vertical posture and conveying the sucked and held substrate in a direction extending along its flat plate surface and moreover performing delivery of the substrate at a plurality of substrate delivery positions set along the substrate conveyance direction; and a plurality of working devices which are placed in correspondence to the plurality of substrate delivery positions of the conveyor device and which perform, in working positions, a working process for mounting components to a mounting area on which the components provided in edge portions of the substantially vertical-postured substrate received from the conveyor device are to be mounted, wherein each of the working devices comprises: a substrate holder for, at the substrate delivery position of the conveyor device, sucking and holding the flat plate surface of the substrate except at least the mounting area of the lower-side edge portion of the substantially vertical-postured substrate; a holder moving device for moving the substrate holder so that the substantially vertical-postured substrate is positioned at the substrate delivery position of the conveyor device and the working position; a receiving member which is enabled to move the mounting area of the lower-side edge portion of the substrate, positioned in the working position, between a support position where the substrate is supported from its back face side that is opposite to the mounting area side and a withdrawal position withdrawn from the support position; and a working unit for performing the working process on the mounting area of the edge portion of the substrate positioned in the working position from its front face side that is the mounting area side.