METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOUNTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT

• Main Authors: KURIBAYASHI TAKESHI, KURATA HIROAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.02.1993
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; COMBINED OPERATIONS; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; CONVEYING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; MACHINE TOOLS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; OTHER WORKING OF METAL; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; REGULATING; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; STORING; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING; UNIVERSAL MACHINE TOOLS

PURPOSE:To provide a method and an apparatus for mounting an electronic component, which can flexibly cope with production of many types of products by automatically switching mounting data corresponding to the type of the product of a printed circuit board. CONSTITUTION:Data 7 representing a type of a product described on a printed circuit board 6 is read, and the data is collated with production plan data 31. Then, necessary data is extracted from mounting data 41 to mount an electronic component on the board 6. According to this method, even if the board is conveyed in any order, a production is performed without an operator.