Feeder device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10285313-B2
Application number	US-201515541907-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 22, 2015
Priority date	Jan 22, 2015
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

The present invention includes a tape peeling mechanism provided with a peeling member configured to enter a leading end surface in a feeding direction of fed component supply tape made from carrier tape and cover tape so as to peel the cover tape from the carrier tape, enabling a component to be supplied from at a component supply position, wherein the peeling member is displaced upwards after entering the leading end surface of the carrier tape as the component supply tape is fed. Accordingly, cover tape is reliably peeled without damaging components, and changeover work on the leading end of the component supply tape is not required.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A feeder device comprising:
a component supply tape including carrier tape that stores components respectively in many component storage sections formed in a lengthwise direction of the tape and including cover tape attached to a specified attachment surface on an upper surface of the carrier tape that prevents the components from falling from the component storage sections;
a tape feeding mechanism to feed the component supply tape; and
a tape peeling mechanism provided with a peeling member configured to enter a leading end surface in a feeding direction of the component supply tape so as to peel the cover tape from the carrier tape as the component supply tape is fed thereby enabling the components to be supplied from the component storage sections of the carrier tape at a component supply position, wherein
the peeling member is displaced upwards after entering the leading end surface of the carrier tape as the component supply tape is fed,
the peeling member includes a leading end section configured to enter the leading end surface of the carrier tape first,
the leading end section includes an upper surface ending at a leading end upper edge arranged lower than an upper surface height of the carrier tape, a lower surface parallel to the carrier tape, and a rounded surface that extends between the lower surface and the leading end upper edge, and
a length in the feeding direction of the curved surface of the leading end section of the peeling member is shorter than a distance between the leading end surface of the carrier tape and a leading component storage section in the feeding direction.

2. The feeder device according to claim 1 , wherein
the peeling member, after entering at a position lower than an upper edge of the leading end surface of the carrier tape, is displaced upwards while leaving an entry path in the carrier tape as the component supply tape is fed, and settles between the carrier tape and the cover tape.

3. The feeder device according to claim 1 , wherein
an attachment section extending in a lengthwise direction of the tape is provided on each of the upper surfaces between left and right edges and the component storage section of the carrier tape, and,
for the peeling member, a width dimension in a tape width direction is small at a leading end section that enters the leading end surface of the carrier tape first and gradually increases towards the rear, and the leading end section is arranged between the left and right attachment sections in the tape width direction.

4. The component mounter according to claim 3 , wherein
the tape peeling mechanism includes an opening member configured to open the component storage section of the carrier tape by lifting up cover tape peeled from the one of the attachment sections above the other of the attachment sections that is not peeled from, the opening member being provided forward of the component supply position in the feeding direction.

5. The component mounter according to claim 4 , wherein
one side of the opening member includes an inclined surface that folds the cover tape peeled from the one of the attachment sections toward and over the other of the attachment sections.

6. The component mounter according to claim 1 , wherein
the tape peeling mechanism is biased towards the component supply tape from above in a vertically movable manner.

Assignees

• Fuji Corp

Inventors

• Murase Hiroki
• Ohashi Hiroyasu

Classifications

• H05K13/02 Primary

  Feeding of components · CPC title

• B65H2701/1942

  Web supporting regularly spaced non-adhesive articles · CPC title

• H05K13/0419 Primary

  tape feeders · CPC title

• H05K13/021

  Loading or unloading of containers (H05K13/028 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B32B38/10

  Removing layers, or parts of layers, mechanically or chemically · CPC title