Patent ID: 8152049

Claim:
An electronic component mounting apparatus that mounts on a substrate an electronic component having a bump to which a paste spread over a transfer surface is transferred, the apparatus comprising: a paste transfer unit that horizontally, relatively moves a squeegee and the transfer surface with respect to each other, thereby spreading, over the transfer surface, a paste film whose thickness is equivalent to a height of a squeegee gap formed from a clearance between the squeegee and the transfer surface; a database of optimum squeegee-gap heights set for respective bump heights and paste types; a storage unit that stores the database; a squeegee-gap height deriving unit that derives, from the database, a squeegee-gap height in correspondence with a height of the bump of the electronic component to be mounted and a type of the paste to be transferred; and a squeegee-gap height adjustment unit that adjusts the height of the squeegee gap formed from the clearance between the squeegee and the transfer surface to the derived squeegee-gap height.