Component mounting method

• US 6,865,803 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2003
• Issued: 03/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hidese, Wataru
• Primary Examiner(s): Arbes, Carl J.
• Application Number:
  US10/452,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20030192178A1
• Time in Patent Office: 652 Days
• Field of Search: 29/33.M, 298/32, 298/33, 297/39, 297/40, 298/40, 298/34, 298/36, 295/641, 297/43
• US Class Current: 29/832
• 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 29/4913 Assembling to base an electrical component, e.g., capacitor, etc.
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49131 by utilizing optical sighting device
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5193 Electrical connector or terminal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53 Means to assemble or disassemble
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53022 with means to test work or product
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53178 Chip component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53183 Multilead component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53191 Means to apply vacuum directly to position or hold work part

Abstract

A component mounter which picks up components from two or more tape feeders aligned in a component feeder carriage, and mounts them a board. Suction nozzles for vacuum-holding components are disposed on the transfer head at a predetermined basic pitch in the X direction (tape feeders alignment direction) to form a nozzle line. Two or more nozzle lines are aligned in the Y direction (perpendicular to the X direction). These suction nozzles pick up two or more components from the tape feeders simultaneously, enabling to reduce the space required for installing the mounter and making the mounter more compact. Increased feasibility of simultaneous pickup of several components also improves mounting efficiency.

Claims

1. A component mounting method for a component mounter, said method comprising the steps of, simultaneously picking up a plurality of components from said parts feeders by a transfer head, and said component mounter comprising:

a plurality of parts feeders aligned in an alignment direction in a component feeder carriage; and

a transfer head for picking up said components from said parts feeders and mounting them on a board, and said transfer head having a plurality of suction nozzles for vacuum-holding said components;

aligning said suction nozzles from each other, at a predetermined basic pitch or at a multiple of said predetermined basic pitch, alongside said parts feeders in a plurality of nozzle lines, and disposing said plurality of nozzle lines perpendicular to the alignment direction of said plurality of parts feeders.

2. The component mounting method as defined in claim 1 further comprising the step of individually picking up said components in accordance with mounting sequence data when said transfer head is unable to simultaneously pick up said plurality of components from said parts feeders.

3. The component mounting method as defined in claim 2, wherein one nozzle line in said plurality of nozzle lines picks up components and then another nozzle line picks up other components.

4. A component mounting method for mounting a component picked up from a plurality of parts feeders in a component feeder carriage on a board by a transfer head, said plurality of parts feeders aligned in an alignment direction in said component feeder carriage,

wherein said transfer head has a plurality of suction nozzles with different sizes for vacuum-holding said component, said plurality of suction nozzles being aligned from each other in a plurality of nozzle lines and at least at one of a predetermined basic pitch and multiple of said basic pitch, and said plurality of nozzle lines disposed perpendicular to the alignment direction of said plurality of parts feeders and alongside said parts feeders;

and

said method comprising the step of simultaneously picking up a plurality of components with different sizes from said parts feeders by said transfer head.