Component mounting apparatus

• US 20050115063A1
• Filed: 11/05/2004
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Saito, Atsushi, Kimura, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 7,340,827 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 29/743
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/0409 Sucking devices
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/041 having multiple pick-up tools
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/0413 with orientation of the component while holding it; Drive mechanisms for gripping tools, e.g. lifting, lowering or turning of gripping tools
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53174 Means to fasten electrical component to wiring board, base, or substrate
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53178 Chip component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53191 Means to apply vacuum directly to position or hold work part

Abstract

A component mounting apparatus is proposed, which has a plurality of vacuum pick-up nozzles attached to a mount head so as to revolve about a main shaft, causing one of the vacuum pick-up nozzles to move to a location to be driven by an actuator that is provided at a designated location in the direction of revolution, and causing the vacuum pick-up nozzle to make a forward movement by the actuator for vacuum pick-up and/or mounting of a component, wherein each of the vacuum pick-up nozzles is provided with a pushed plate of a designated size in the moving direction of the vacuum pick-up nozzle at a driven portion thereof.

Claims

1. A component mounting apparatus having a plurality of vacuum pick-up nozzles attached to a mount head so as to revolve about a main shaft, causing one of said vacuum pick-up nozzles to move to a location to be driven by an actuator that is provided at a designated location in the direction of revolution, and causing said vacuum pick-up nozzle to make a forward movement by said actuator for vacuum pick-up and/or mounting of a component;

wherein each of said vacuum pick-up nozzles is provided with a pushed plate of a designated size in the moving direction of said vacuum pick-up nozzle at a driven portion thereof.

2. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said pushed plate is a circular disk.

3. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said circular disk is rotatably attached to said vacuum pick-up nozzle.

4. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a driving portion of said actuator is a rotary member.

5. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said driving portion of said actuator is a roller that can rotate in said direction of revolution.

6. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said driving portion of said actuator is swingable.

7. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said driving portion of said actuator is a roller rotatably supported by a support that can be swingably pivoted about a supporting shaft.

12. The component mounting apparatus according to either one of claim 1, 8, or 10,

wherein said vacuum pick-up nozzle picks up said component while spinning and also mounts said picked up component on a designated location on a circuit board.

8. A component mounting apparatus having a plurality of vacuum pick-up nozzles attached to a mount head so as to revolve about a main shaft, causing one of said vacuum pick-up nozzles to move to a location to be driven by an actuator that is provided at a designated location in the direction of revolution, and causing said vacuum pick-up nozzles to make a forward movement by said actuator for vacuum pick-up and/or mounting of a component,

wherein a control means is provided for controlling said vacuum pick-up nozzle to make a forward movement by said actuator at the time when said actuator is moved to a location not to interfere with an adjacent vacuum pick-up nozzle in the process of moving said vacuum pick-up nozzles in the direction of revolution by said actuator to a location to be operated by said actuator.

9. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein said vacuum pick-up nozzle moves forward to pick up or mount said component.

10. A component mounting apparatus having a plurality of vacuum pick-up nozzles attached to a mount head so as to revolve about a main shaft, causing one of said vacuum pick-up nozzles to move to a location to be driven by an actuator that is provided at a designated location in the direction of revolution, and causing said vacuum pick-up nozzles to make a forward movement by said actuator for vacuum pick-up and/or mounting of a component,

wherein a control means is provided for controlling said mounting head to revolve about said main shaft at the time when said actuator makes a backward movement to a position not to interfere with an adjacent vacuum pick-up nozzle in the process of backward movement of said vacuum pick-up nozzle.

11. The component mounting apparatus according to claim 10,

wherein said backward movement of said vacuum pick-up nozzle is made subsequent to vacuum pick-up or mounting of said component by said vacuum pick-up nozzle.