Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Means to assemble electrical device
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-23
2002-07-02
Vo, Peter (Department: 3729)
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Means to assemble electrical device
C029S740000, C029S838000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06412166
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an apparatus for automatically mounting electronic components to a board, and more particularly to an apparatus which is adapted to insert electronic components having lead wires to holes of a board, cut and fold the lead wires and fix the electronic components to the board.
In a conventional mounting apparatus of the type referred to above, there are arranged a table part for positioning a board at a predetermined position, a feeding part for feeding tape-bonded electronic components having lead wires, an insertion head for separating the electronic components supplied from the feeding part from the tapes and inserting then into holes of the board, and a fixing head opposed to the insertion head via the board for fixing the electronic components to the board after cutting and folding the lead wires of the inserted electronic components. One AC servo motor is used as a driving source for the insertion head and the fixing head because of a necessity to synchronize both heads. The AC servo motor is connected directly with the insertion head, but connected to the fixing head via timing pulleys and a timing belt to transmit a driving force, thereby driving both heads synchronously. A chain and sprockets, or gears and a transmission shaft, are used in some cases instead of the timing pulleys and the timing belt.
The conventional apparatus will be described with reference to FIG.
4
. The apparatus consists of components designated by
33
-
43
. More specifically, in
FIG. 4
, an electronic component having lead wires is supplied from a feeding part
31
in a tape-bonded state. The electronic component is separated from the tapes before the electronic component is inserted into a hole of a board
32
by an insertion head
33
. A fixing head
34
facing the insertion head
33
via the board
32
cuts and folds the lead wires of the electronic component inserted into the board, then fixes the electronic component to the board
32
. A single driving source, i.e., AC servo motor
35
, applies a driving force simultaneously to the insertion head
33
and the fixing head
34
. Besides the above-described component parts, the apparatus includes a timing pulley
36
set at an output shaft of the AC servo motor
35
, a timing pulley
37
at a driving shaft of the fixing head
34
, a timing belt
38
for transmitting a driving force of the timing pulley
36
to the timing pulley
37
, a manual handle
39
for bringing rotary encoders connected to the insertion head
33
and the fixing head
34
to origins of the encoders after the apparatus. stops, a cam
40
as a part of the insertion head
33
, a lever
41
for driving the insertion head
33
in association with the cam
40
, a cam
42
as a part of the fixing head
34
, and a lever
43
following the cam
42
for driving the fixing head
34
.
The above mounting apparatus operates in the following manner. First, the insertion head
33
is driven by a driving force of the AC servo motor
35
. The electronic component is received from the feeding part
31
and inserted into the hole of the board
32
. At the same time, the driving force of the AC servo motor is transmitted via the timing pulleys
36
,
37
and timing belt
38
to drive the fixing head
34
. As a result, the lead wires of the electronic component inserted to the hole of the board
32
are cut and folded, and the electronic component is thus fixed to the board
32
.
The above constitution necessitates the single driving source to drive both the insertion head
33
and the fixing head
34
, generating a large rotational load. The AC servo motor
35
becomes disadvantageously bulky in size. Moreover, a large inertia of the rotational load lengthens the time for activating or stopping the apparatus. Further, distant shafts such as those of the insertion head
33
and fixing head
34
have to be simultaneously driven in an interlocking manner with the use of the transmission component, e.g., the timing belt
38
or the like, causing the apparatus to be complicated in structure. The amount of stroke cannot be changed by an up-down mechanism consisting of the cam
42
and lever
43
in the fixing head
34
, and the assembly of the up-down mechanism is hard to adjust, complicated in structure and large in size. Since a lifting part for moving the whole fixing head
34
up and down and a folding part for cutting and folding the lead wires of the electronic components and fixing the electronic components to the board are driven by one driving source, the rotational load is increased to make the driving motor large. The inertia of the rotational load is so large that a long time is required for stopping and starting the apparatus.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide a mounting apparatus for electronic components which is simplified in structure, with a driving motor miniaturized in size, whereby a time for starting and stopping the apparatus is shortened, thereby reducing a mounting cycle time.
In accomplishing these and other aspects, according to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for mounting electronic components, comprising an electronic component feeding member for feeding electronic components having lead wires in a tape-bonded with tapes.
An insertion head inserts the lead wires of one of the electronic components fed from the feeding member into holes of a board after separating the lead wires from the tapes.
A fixing head faces the insertion head via the board for cutting and folding the lead wires of the electronic component inserted in the holes of the board, and fixes the electronic component to the board.
A driving source is set for each of the insertion head and the fixing head to independently drive the corresponding head.
A synchronizing device sychronizes the driving sources.
According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for mounting electronic components, comprising
an electronic component feeding member for feeding electronic components with lead wires in a tape-bonded state by use of tapes.
An insertion head inserts the lead wires of one of the electronic components fed from the feeding member into holes of the board after separating the component from the tapes.
A fixing head faces the insertion head via the board for cutting and folding the lead wires of the electronic component inserted into the holes of the board and fixes the electronic component to the board. The fixing head includes a lifting part for moving the whole fixing head up and down and a folding part arranged inside the fixing head for cutting and folding the lead wires of the electronic component.
A first driving motor is provided for the insertion head.
A cam is fitted at a driving shaft connected to the first driving motor, for driving the insertion head.
An encoder detects a rotating position of a rotor of the driving motor.
A second driving motor and an encoder detects a rotating position of a rotor of the second driving motor, with which each of the lifting part and the folding part is equipped.
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Imai Kiyoshi
Inaba Yuzuru
Kinoshita Hiromi
Watanabe Hideaki
Smith Sean
Vo Peter
Wenderoth , Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
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