Patent ID: 8157142

Claim:
A feed amount data setting system, comprising: a tape feeder, wherein said tape feeder including a sprocket formed with a plurality of pins engageable with respective feed holes provided in a tape which holds electronic components, and a motor adapted to drivingly rotate said sprocket to drivingly feed said tape, said feed amount data setting system being configured to set a feed amount of said motor for allowing said electronic components held by said tape to be sequentially fed to a given pickup position so as to rotationally control said, motor to rotate said sprocket one or more turns, while sequentially detecting feed amounts of said motor at respective times when respective ones of said electronic components held by said tape reach said pickup position, and store said sequentially detected feed amounts in a feed amount data storage device equipped in said feeder or a mounter, in correspondence with respective ones of said pins engaged with said feed holes of said tape to drivingly feed said tape at said respective times when said respective electronic components reach said pickup position.