The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a roll of flexible carrier bearing electronic components. This process includes a step consisting in adding, to this flexible carrier, electronic components, themselves manufactured from a roll of flexible initial substrate. For example, the electronic components may be manufactured on an initial substrate having a width allowing advantage to be taken of densification of the manufacture of the components on this initial substrate. Subsequently, the singulated electronic components are added to the flexible carrier, allowing, for example, packaging that is more suitable, than possible with the initial substrate, to a use of the electronic components, notably when the latter must be integrated into a chip-card. Thus, for example, the flexible carrier may be, or include, an adhesive, which may or may not be conductive, and which is used to fasten, and optionally connect, each electronic component to a chip-card.

A component supply device including: a stage configured such that components can be scattered on the stage; a slide device configured to slide the stage; a contacting section configured to contact the component scattered on the stage in accordance with sliding of the stage by the slide device; and a control device configured to control operation of the slide device, wherein the control device includes a determining section configured to determine whether the stage has been slid to a set position when the stage is slid towards the contacting section, and an operation control section configured to control operation of the slide device so as to, in a case in which it is determined by the determining section that the stage has not been slid to the set position, after sliding the stage in a direction away from the contacting section, once again slide the stage towards the contacting section.

A tray-type component supply device includes a device main body, a magazine configured to be detachably held by the device main body and to accommodate multiple trays in each of which multiple components are arranged vertically, a shuttle mechanism configured to draw any of the trays from the magazine to enable the components to be supplied, a lifting/lowering mechanism configured to move the magazine or the shuttle mechanism up and down to select a tray to be drawn by the shuttle mechanism, and an automatic exchange section configured to exchange the magazine to be collected from the device main body and the magazine to be provided to the device main body.

The current disclosure describes carrier tape systems, which include a cover tape having adhesion areas and non-adhesion areas which are substantially free of adhesive. Methods for supplying semiconductor devices to an apparatus, which in operation, places the semiconductor devices at desired locations are also described. Methods of forming a semiconductor device carrier system are also described.

A component mounting device described herein includes a tape driving section (a driving shaft motor, a front-side sprocket, a timing belt) feeding forward component tapes including components, a tape guide section guiding downward an empty tape that has no component as a result of suctioning with a suction nozzle, a tape cutting section disposed below the tape guide section and cutting the empty tape according to determination that the component tape has no component, and a tape discharge section disposed below the tape cutting section and discharging downward a cut part of the empty tape.

A component mounting system including multiple component mounting devices to collect components from feeders set at multiple feeder holding sections and mount the components on a board, the multiple feeder holding sections being provided on each of the multiple component mounting devices to removably hold the feeders; and a feeder exchanging device to move along a line along which the multiple component mounting devices are arranged and exchange feeders with respect to each of the component mounting devices. The component mounting system acquires a type and arrangement of each of the feeders set on the multiple component mounting devices, determines whether each of the feeders is set at a predetermined appropriate position, and upon determining that there is a feeder that is not set at the appropriate position, uses the feeder exchanging device to reset the feeder that is not set at the appropriate position.

An automatic exchanging device for moving in an arrangement direction of multiple component mounting machines alongside the front face of a component mounting line to set feeders to and/or remove feeders from a feeder setting base of each component mounting machine, and a control device for controlling the movement of the automatic exchanging device. The control device monitors the operational states of the multiple component mounting machines and, when an error requiring the work of the operator occurs in any one of the component mounting machines, sets a predetermined range including the component mounting machine to a movement prohibited area of the automatic exchanging device to move the automatic exchanging device out of the movement prohibited area until it is determined that the work is completed.

The management device includes a management control section configured to set attachment position setting information including an attachment position of a feeder in a tendency such that the feeder is to be replaced in association with production switching to be attached to an attachment portion closer to a storage section based on production plan information including multiple pieces of mounting condition information.

A management device includes a management control section configured to create rearrangement disposition information for rearranging recovery feeders in a recovery storage region and rearranging provision feeders in a provision storage region among feeders temporarily stored in a storage section by using storage position information regarding storage positions of the provision feeders and the recovery feeders temporarily stored in the storage section and region information including the recovery storage region and the provision storage region set in the storage section, and output the created rearrangement disposition information.

A component mounting system includes a component mounting machine group, a storage container, and a loader. The storage container is provided at an upstream side or a downstream side of the component mounting machine group and has a storage area configured to support detachably multiple component supply devices that are arranged in an aligned fashion. The loader automatically detach and/or attach the component supply devices from and/or to the component mounting machines and the storage container. The storage area is divided by a boundary into a collection area configured to detachably support the component supply device for collection that is not used for production and a supply area configured to detachably support the component supply device for supply that is used for production.