Electronic parts mounting apparatus and electronic parts mounting method

• US 8,091,216 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2004
• Issued: 01/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Saho, Hidehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Minh
• Application Number:
  US10/754,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20040139602A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,923 Days
• Field of Search: 29720-722, 29740-743, 29832-834, 297/12, 414/737, 414/225.01, 294/2, 294/64.1
• US Class Current: 29/743
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/041 having multiple pick-up tools
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/0411 having multiple mounting heads
• 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 29/49133 with component orienting
• 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

An electric parts mounting apparatus includes rotary type multi-nozzle mounting heads. Each of the mounting heads has a plurality of suction nozzles disposed in a radial manner on a rotor mechanism, which rotates around a rotation shaft. A parts mount mechanism is configured such that the axial direction of the rotation shaft coincides with an arrangement direction of tape feeders. A shaft-to-shaft distance of the suction nozzles is set to be plural times as large as a pitch of the feeder arrangement. In a pick up process, a plurality of electronic parts can be simultaneously picked up from the tape feeders. In a parts mounting process, while one of the mounting heads mounts the part, the other mounting head can complete a nozzle changeover operation such that the suction nozzle holding an electronic part to be mounted next is moved to an operation position.

Claims

1. An electronic parts mounting apparatus which takes out electronic parts from a parts supply portion, then transfers and mounts the parts on a board, the electronic parts mounting apparatus comprising:

a board positioning portion for positioning the board transferred in a first direction;

parts feeders arranged with a predetermined pitch along the first direction at the parts supply portion;

a plurality of mounting heads secured together in parallel in each of which a plurality of suction nozzles, each revolving around a horizontal rotation shaft set so as to be aligned with the first direction and being capable of sucking and holding the electronic part, are disposed in a radial manner around the rotation shaft; and

a single head moving means for integrally moving a plurality of the mounting heads between the parts supply portion and the board positioning portion, wherein the single head moving means is configured to operatively connect the mounting heads such that the mounting heads cannot move independently with respect to each other.

2. The electronic parts mounting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the mounting heads are disposed in parallel from one another along the first direction.

3. The electronic parts mounting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein a distance between the adjacent mounting heads is set in a manner that a shaft-to-shaft distance between the suction nozzles provided at the respective mounting heads is plural times as large as an arrangement pitch of the parts feeders of the parts supply portion.

4. The electronic parts mounting apparatus according to claim 2, wherein each of a plurality of the mounting heads is provided with a parts recognition camera for recognizing the electronic parts.

5. An electronic parts mounting method for transferring and mounting electronic parts on a board by using an electronic part mounting apparatus which comprising:

a board positioning portion for positioning the board transferred in a first direction;

parts feeders arranged with a predetermined pitch along the first direction at the parts supply portion;

a plurality of mounting heads secured together in parallel in each of which a plurality of suction nozzles, each revolving around a horizontal rotation shaft set so as to be aligned with the first direction and being capable of sucking and holding the electronic part, are disposed in a radial manner around the rotation shaft; and

head moving means for integrally moving a plurality of the mounting heads between the parts supply portion and the board positioning portion, the electronic parts mounting method comprising;

a pick-up step for moving a plurality of the mounting heads to the parts supply portion and taking out electronic parts from the parts feeders by using the suction nozzles of the mounting heads;

a head moving step in which a single head moving means moves a plurality of the mounting heads holding the electronic parts to the board positioning portion such that the mounting heads cannot move independently with respect to each other; and

a parts mounting step for sequentially mounting the electronic parts held by the respective suction nozzles on mounting points of the board by a plurality of the mounting heads, respectively,

wherein in the parts mounting step, while the suction nozzle in one of the mounting heads is moved up and down with respect to the board to mount an electronic part held by the suction nozzle on the board, the suction nozzle holding an electronic part to be mounted next in another of the mounting heads is revolved around the rotation shaft.

6. The electronic parts mounting method according to claim 5, wherein in the pick-up step, electronic parts are simultaneously picked up by a plurality of the mounting heads from a plurality of the parts feeders.

7. The electronic parts mounting method according to claim 5, wherein the electronic parts held by a plurality of the mounting heads are recognized by parts recognition cameras respectively provided at a plurality of the mounting heads.