Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – With testing or indicating
Patent
1998-08-07
1999-12-07
Hughes, S. Thomas
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
With testing or indicating
29833, 29743, 29721, 29740, B23Q 1700
Patent
active
059962038
ABSTRACT:
An electronic component mounting apparatus for determining whether or not a nozzle replacement operation is successfully performed. A horizontal array of nozzles are accommodated in the holder in a nozzle stocker, and a light emitting device and a light receiving device are arranged so that the light path between both runs above the nozzles. The nozzle stocker is arranged in a travel path of a feeding head. The nozzle mount of the feeding head returns a used nozzle into the holder or mounts a new nozzle thereon. When any nozzle remains lifted from the holder intercepting the light path, a returning operation of the used nozzle is determined to be a failure. When a nozzle replacement is performed, its success or failure is reliably determined by detecting a intercepting height of light and release height of light by the nozzle and nozzle mount, respectively.
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Abe Nobutaka
Nishimura Akira
Blount Steven
Hughes S. Thomas
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
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