A component feeding system including: a stage configured to support components in a scattered state; a holding tool configured to pick up and hold the component scattered on the stage; an imaging device configured to image the components scattered on the stage; and a control device configured to acquire, based on image data of the imaging device, a pickup possible component quantity that is a quantity of components that can be picked up by the holding tool from among the components scattered on the stage.

The operator may first place a blank device in a first socket in a first site. The APS may self-teach the position and orientation of that first socket by removing and replacing the device in the socket one or more times, and by detecting the position of the device in the socket or by monitoring a change in position of the device as it is placed into the socket. The APS then picks the device from the first socket (or from the input tray) and moves it in succession through the rest of the sockets to establish position and orientation of each socket. After all sockets are taught, the APS loads all sockets with blank devices, and programming begins. Alternatively, the programming job begins as each site is taught and before the remaining sites are taught so that production output can begin “immediately.”

A component mounting machine includes a base material device to convey a circuit base material, a component mounting device to mount an electronic component, an imaging device to capture a predetermined region including the circuit base material, a first detection section to detect at least one device mark provided on the base material device and at least one base material mark provided on the circuit base material, a calculation section to calculate a position on the circuit base material where the electronic component is to be mounted, based on the device mark and the base material mark detected by the first detection section, and a feedback section configured to feed back, as a correction value for correcting a position on the circuit base material to be calculated next by the calculation section, a part of the deviation amount detected by a second detection section.

An electronic component mounting apparatus includes: a transfer unit picking up an upper surface of a light emitting device package having a front surface on which a light emitting diode chip is disposed, and transferring the light emitting device package to a printed circuit board, a light source unit disposed on a transfer path of the light emitting device package, and irradiating measurement light onto the front surface of the light emitting device package, a camera capturing an image of the light emitting device package to which the measurement light is irradiated, and a control unit image-processing the image to identify excitation light, emitted when the measurement light is excited from the light emitting diode chip, in the image, and controlling the transfer unit to mount the light emitting device package on the printed circuit board when identifying the excitation light.

A component mounting system is a system in which a mounting machine and an inspection device are connected to a management device so as to enable data communication therewith. The mounting machine includes a mounting analysis unit that acquires suction position shift data for each component mounting operation of a mounting head. The inspection device includes an inspection analysis unit that acquires mounting position shift data corresponding to each of a plurality of target mounting positions. The management device includes a mark generating unit and a display unit. Based on each suction position shift data and each mounting position shift data, the mark generating unit generates a suction shift mark and a mounting shift mark each of which visualizes the direction and the size of a positional shift. The display unit displays each suction shift mark or each mounting shift mark at each marking position on board graphics.

There is provided technology which is a component mounting machine which mounts electronic components onto a circuit substrate and is capable of displaying a movable region of an inner portion of the component mounting machine within a same image. The component mounting machine is provided with a fixed camera which monitors the inner portion of the component mounting machine and a display section which is capable of displaying a captured image of the fixed camera. The fixed camera is capable of imaging a range from a pickup position at which the suction nozzle picks up the electronic component which is supplied from the component feeder to a mounting position at which the electronic component is mounted onto the circuit substrate within the same image.

A component mounting device includes a head unit including a mounting head configured to mount a component on a substrate, a component feeder configured to feed the component to the mounting head, and an imager provided on the head unit and configured to be able to image a component feeding location of the component feeder from a plurality of directions. The component mounting device further includes a controller configured to acquire a horizontal position and a vertical height position of the component at the component feeding location based on images of the component feeding location captured from the plurality of directions by the imager.

A component mounting machine includes a tool station and a determination section. The tool station detachably accommodates a holding member including a main body section which can hold a component to be mounted on a board and multiple identification sections which can identify multiple accommodation angles. The determination section determines an angle difference in which the accommodation angle of the holding member differs from a predetermined accommodation angle. At least one identification section of the multiple identification sections is defined as a first identification section, the at least one identification section being exposed when the accommodation angle of the holding member is the predetermined accommodation angle in a close state in which the multiple identification sections are partially covered by a shielding member. When the determination section cannot recognize the first identification section in the close state, the determination section attempts to recognize a second identification section.

An optical pick and place machine that includes a self-calibrating optical controller for error feedback based optical placement of optical components using active alignment is described. The optical controller can include a loopback mode to generate a baseline value of light generated by a light source and measured by a photodetector within the optical controller. The optical controller can further include an active alignment mode in which the light is coupled from the pick and place machine to the optical device on which the component is placed. The optical coupling of the placed component can be evaluated against the baseline value to ensure that the optical coupling is within specification (e.g., within a prespecified range).

A mounter is provided with a head unit with a suction nozzle capable of picking up an electronic component that transfers the electronic component to a specified position, an imaging device that images the pickup orientation of the electronic component, a component data acquiring device that acquires the size of the electronic component, an image processing section that image processes the captured image, and an image processing pattern selecting section. The image processing pattern selecting section, based on the size of the electronic component, is able to select one image processing range and one image processing accuracy from multiple predetermined image processing ranges and multiple predetermined printing accuracies, and, as the size of the electronic component acquired from the component data acquiring section becomes smaller, selects a smaller image processing range and a more accurate image processing accuracy from the multiple image processing ranges and multiple image processing accuracies.