Feeder and mounting machine

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10015918-B2
Application number	US-201314891764-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 4, 2013
Priority date	Jun 4, 2013
Publication date	Jul 3, 2018
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018

Abstract

A feeder, which is used through installation in a mounting machine and which is configured to supply components that a mounting machine mounts on a printed circuit board. The feeder is a second type of feeder which is capable of performing a second aspect component supply operation, and is interchangeable with a first type of feeder which performs a first aspect component supply operation. The feeder is configured to transmit feeder information indicating that the feeder is the first type of feeder and perform the first aspect component supply operation when a request for feeder information is received from the mounting machine by a first command, and transmit feeder information indicating that the feeder is the second type of feeder and perform the second aspect component supply operation when a request for feeder information is received from the mounting machine by a second command.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A component feeder, which is used through installation in a mounting machine and which is configured to supply components that the mounting machine mounts on a printed circuit board, wherein the component feeder is a second type of feeder configured to perform a first aspect component supply operation and perform a second aspect component supply operation different from the first aspect component supply operation and wherein the second type of feeder is different from a first type of feeder configured to perform the first aspect component supply operation,
the component feeder comprising:
a controller configured to:
receive a request for feeder information from the mounting machine, wherein the request for feeder information can be a first command or a second command different from the first command and wherein the first command corresponds to the first aspect component supply operation and a corresponding first aspect component mounting operation of the mounting machine and the second command corresponds to the second aspect component supply operation and a corresponding second aspect component mounting operation of the mounting machine,
transmit feeder information indicating that the component feeder is the first type of feeder, even though the component feeder is the second type of feeder, and cause the component feeder to perform the first aspect component supply operation when the request for feeder information is the first command, and
transmit feeder information indicating that the component feeder is the second type of feeder and cause the component feeder to perform the second aspect component supply operation when the request for feeder information is the second command.

2. The component feeder according to claim 1 , wherein the second type of feeder is a new model feeder configured to be used in the place of the first type of feeder.

3. The component feeder according to claim 1 , wherein a feeding speed of the second aspect component supply operation is faster than a feeding speed of the first aspect component supply operation.

4. A component mounting machine in which a component feeder is installed and which is configured to mount components that are supplied by the component feeder on a printed circuit board, wherein the component mounting machine is configured to perform a first aspect component mounting operation and a second aspect component mounting operation and wherein the component feeder installed in the mounting machine is either one of (1) a first type of feeder which transmits feeder information indicating that the component feeder is the first type of feeder and performs a first aspect component supply operation when a first command for feeder information corresponding to the first aspect component supply operation and the first aspect component mounting operation is received by the first type of feeder from the component mounting machine and (2) a second type of feeder, different from the first type of feeder, which transmits feeder information indicating that the component feeder is the second type of feeder and performs a second aspect component supply operation when a second command for feeder information corresponding to the second aspect component supply operation and the second aspect component mounting operation, different from the first command for feeder information, is received by the second type of feeder from the component mounting machine,
the component mounting machine comprising:
a controller configured to, when the component feeder is installed:
send the second command for feeder information to the component feeder,
cause the component mounting machine to perform the second aspect component mounting operation corresponding to the second aspect component supply operation of the component feeder when the feeder information indicating that the component feeder is the second type of feeder is received from the component feeder,
send the first command for feeder information to the component feeder when the feeder information indicating that the component feeder is the second type of feeder is not received from the component feeder, and
cause the mounting machine to perform the first aspect component mounting operation corresponding to the first aspect component supply operation when the feeder information indicating that the component feeder is the first type of feeder is received from the component feeder.

5. The component mounting machine according to claim 4 , wherein the second type of feeder is a new model feeder configured to be used in the place of the first type of feeder.

6. The component mounting machine according to claim 4 , wherein a feeding speed of the second aspect component supply operation is faster than a feeding speed of the first aspect component supply operation.

7. The component mounting machine according to claim 4 , wherein a cycle time of the second aspect component mounting operation is shorter than a cycle time of the first aspect component mounting operation.

8. The component mounting machine according to claim 4 , wherein the second type of feeder transmits feeder information indicating that the feeder is the first type of feeder and performs the first aspect component supply operation when the first command is received by the second type of feeder from the component mounting machine.

Assignees

• Fuji Machine Mfg

Inventors

• Koike Hirokazu

Classifications

• B65H20/00

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