Automatic equipping unit for electrical assemblies with a belt store unit for discharged components

• US 6,073,751 A
• Filed: 07/14/1998
• Issued: 06/13/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Worzischek, Alexander
• Primary Examiner(s): VALENZA, JOSEPH E
• Application Number:
  US09/114,368
• Time in Patent Office: 700 Days
• Field of Search: 198/341.01, 198/341.04, 198/341.05, 198/460.1, 198/460.3, 198/464.2, 198/464.3, 198/502.2
• US Class Current: 198/460.1
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/0417 Feeding with belts or tapes

Abstract

An automatic equipping unit for electrical assemblies with a belt store unit for discharged components wherein the components discharged by the automatic equipping unit are placed onto the belt store unit in a defined position. A belt drive that can be controlled in fine steps accepts the corresponding length values of the component from a central controller of the automatic equipping unit and conveys this component out of a deposit area of the belt store unit. As a result thereof, the control outlay is reduced and the deposit capacity is increased.

Claims

1. An automatic equipping unit for equipping electric supplies, comprising:

a belt store unit having both a belt drive and a circulating conveyor belt wherein the conveyor belt is driven by the belt drive and includes a component deposit area;

a movable equipping head for placing components on the component deposit area when the conveyor belt is stationary wherein a front side of each component points in a conveying direction;

a monitor having a step counter, the monitor coupled to the belt drive for controlling feed length of the conveyor belt wherein the monitor activates the belt drive upon placement of a component on the component deposit area and advances the conveyor belt a distance associated with a length of the component; and

a central controller connected to both the monitor and the movable equipping head, the central controller containing the length dimension data of the components and transferring the length dimension data to the monitor.

2. An automatic equipping unit as claimed in claim 1, wherein cumulative feed length data of the conveyor belt is stored in the central controller.