CN1214661A - Electrical component feeding and delivery system - Google Patents

Electrical component feeding and delivery system Download PDF

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CN1214661A
CN1214661A CN97193388A CN97193388A CN1214661A CN 1214661 A CN1214661 A CN 1214661A CN 97193388 A CN97193388 A CN 97193388A CN 97193388 A CN97193388 A CN 97193388A CN 1214661 A CN1214661 A CN 1214661A
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林家得
张品超
徐冠庆
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05KPRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K13/00Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or adjusting assemblages of electric components
    • H05K13/02Feeding of components
    • H05K13/028Simultaneously loading a plurality of loose objects, e.g. by means of vibrations, pressure differences, magnetic fields
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05KPRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K3/00Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits
    • H05K3/30Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65GTRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING OR TIPPING, SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS OR PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS
    • B65G51/00Conveying articles through pipes or tubes by fluid flow or pressure; Conveying articles over a flat surface, e.g. the base of a trough, by jets located in the surface
    • B65G51/02Directly conveying the articles, e.g. slips, sheets, stockings, containers or workpieces, by flowing gases

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A feeder (1) for supplying electrical components to pick-and-place machine. The feeder has a hopper for storing the components and a pick up location for supplying the components to the pick-and-place machine. A channel provides communication between the hopper and pick up location. The channel has an upwardly inclined portion which is upwardly inclined towards the pick up location and there are controlled air jet through nozzles for providing pulsed air jets to push the components up the inclined portion and towards the pick up location. Further, one of the air jets passing through the nozzle is used to stop the components from sliding out of the inclined portion.

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Electrical component feeding and delivery system
The present invention relates to be used for providing the improved feed-in machine of electronic component to pick up location.The present invention is specially adapted to but is not necessarily limited to provide the surface-mountable electronic component that is stored in the magazine to pick up location, is used for being installed to continuously circuit card.
The feedback element is known process in surface mounting technique (SMT).Usually, feed-in machine is used for providing surface-mountable electronic component to pick up location continuously, is used for being placed into continuously and preprinting the printed circuit board (PCB) (PCB) that is brushed with scolder by picking up the machine of putting.
A kind of form of feed-in machine is a cylinder winding feed-in machine, and wherein, electronic package is contained on the belt that twists on the cylinder.Belt comprises each sack, and each contains by thin film lid and is packaged in one of electronic component in the sack separately.In use, when belt entered pick up location, film was removed, therefore stay contain one of electronic component sack in putting the machine position contacting by picking up.Unfortunately, the actual element that is arranged in sack of being wider than of belt has increased the width of feed-in machine.Also have, be used to remove the cylinder of film and width and the overall dimensions that device also increases feed-in machine.
Be also referred to as the alternative cylinder winding of the magazine feed-in machine feed-in machine of cabin or pipe feed-in machine.The magazine feed-in machine comprises the magazine that transmits along declivity path and pick up location.The declivity path provides element with gravity to pick up location.Provide element for further helping to pick up location, also use gravity and jet combination.
Pick up location has applying wall and hole.The applying wall at element by before picking up the machine of putting and removing by the hole, the element of fitting and providing from magazine.Must control and provide element to pick up location, otherwise, the undesirable friction force between applying wall and applying element can be caused.This friction force be since in the declivity path element of bulk deposition push away the applying element in the applying wall.Therefore, when picking up the machine of putting and attempt to remove adjacent element, this friction force can cause problem.Also have, the friction force of N/R between applying element and adjacent element can also hinder removes the applying element.
For reducing above-mentioned friction force, mechanically control element is provided, with the separately element in the declivity path and the element of pick up location to pick up location.For example, a traditional method is to use the in series slotted disk of the air operated control of level between pick up location and declivity path.Slotted disk has the relative seam of two diametric(al)s, is used for the order fastener element.Dish is regularly to turn over 180 degree in proper order, therefore to be engaged in the discrete-component of one of seam to pick up location from channel transfer.
The limited space that the method needs that above-mentioned traditional mechanically control element separates are valuable.Greater than element and because practical reason, dish is a horizontal positioned, therefore increases the width of feed-in machine mainly due to dish essence for this.
In the use, traditional magazine feed-in machine or cylinder winding feed-in machine are positioned at along picking up puts the both sides, transmission road that captain's degree stretches.Transmit the road and transmit printed circuit board (PCB), to allow being installed to circuit card from magazine feed-in machine or the next element of cylinder winding feed-in machine feedback to a zone of picking up the machine of putting.This machine of putting of picking up is very expensive and their length is shorter.Therefore, whenever pick up the machine of putting and be less than 400 magazines or cylinder winding feed-in machine or their combination (200 on every limit, road) with the typical case.The result is possible need the other machine of putting of picking up to finish installation elements to circuit card.Therefore increase and make and maintenance cost.In addition, traditional magazine feed-in machine and cylinder winding feed-in machine have moving-member, and this also can increase the cost that has in safeguarding.
The objective of the invention is to overcome or alleviate at least one problem of relevant prior art feed-in machine.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of being used for to provide the feed-in machine of electronic component to picking up the machine of putting, described feed-in machine comprises:
At least one memory storage is used to store some described elements;
Pick up location is used for providing described element to the described machine of putting of picking up;
Passage is provided at the transmission between described memory storage and the described pick up location, and described passage comprises the updip part, and it is to described pick up location updip;
Mobile device is used for moving described element along described updip part and to described pick up location;
Accordingly, described mobile device can comprise a fluid thrust unit, is used for auxiliary described element and partly makes progress along described updip.
Accordingly, an end of described updip part can be directly coupled to described pick up location.
In another form, described passage has the middle part between described pick up location and described updip part.
Accordingly, there is the member supports face at described middle part, and the member supports face of described relatively updip part has an angle.
Accordingly, the described member supports face reality at described middle part is in alignment with horizontal surface.
Preferably, the member supports face of described pick up location can with the member supports face of described updip part at angle, the member supports face of described pick up location can be aimed at horizontal surface essence.
Accordingly, described passage comprises the first that is provided at transmission between described memory storage and the updip part, and wherein, the appearance of described first to described updip part at angle.
Preferably, device for choking fluid flow is arranged, be used to prevent that at least some described elements from skidding off described updip partial sum and slipping into described first.
Accordingly, each of described device for choking fluid flow and described fluid thrust unit comprises at least one gas blowout outlet, is coupled to compressed gas source effectively, and wherein, described source of the gas may command arrives one of described gas blowout outlet so that gas selectively to be provided.
Preferably, described memory storage can be the magazine of related exciting bank.
Preferably, the gas blowout of described fluid thrust unit outlet can be positioned at described magazine, so that described exciting bank to be provided.
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For the present invention being understood easily and realizing, referring now to the preferred embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:
Fig. 1 is the lateral plan according to the preferred embodiment of feed-in machine of the present invention;
Fig. 2 is the planar view of the feed-in machine of Fig. 1;
Fig. 3 describes the feed-in machine of operating Fig. 1;
Fig. 4 is when the contiguous transmission road of picking up the machine of putting is installed, the planar view of the feed-in machine of set of diagrams 1.
Referring to figs. 1 through Fig. 3, describe feed-in machine 1, be used for providing electronic component to picking up the machine of putting.Feed-in machine 1 comprises the memory storage of magazine 2 forms, pick up location 3 and passage 4.Passage 4 is provided at the transmission between magazine 2 and the pick up location 3, and therefore, the electric device 20 in the magazine 2 can be sent to pick up location 3.
Channel 4 comprises updip part 5, and it is to pick up location 3 updips.The device for choking fluid flow that gas jets 6 forms that are arranged in first 12 are arranged.Passage 4 has the middle part 7 between pick up location 3 and updip part 5.The middle part 7 member supports face 8b that have in horizontal surface.Therefore, the member supports face 8a of the relative updip part 5 of bearing surface has an angle.
Pick up location 3 has member supports face 9, in alignment with face 8b.Applying wall 10 is also arranged, be used to stop element 20, and setting element 20 and insert hole 11, be used for allowing putting the machine (not shown) and removing element 20 from pick up location 3 by picking up.
Passage 4 also has first 12 and the second portion 13 that is in certain angle.One end of second portion 13 is coupled to the outlet 21 of magazine 2, and the other end is coupled to an end of first 12.The other end of first 12 is coupled to an end of updip part 5, and first's 12 relative updip parts 5 at angle.
The excitor and the fluid thrust unit of the combination of gas jets 14 forms that are arranged in magazine 2, are adjacent to outlet 21 are arranged, be used for element 20 being pushed to updip part 5 to pick up location 3.Airway 17 allows to provide gas to mouth 14, and another airway 18 allows to provide gas to mouth 6.
Passage 4, pick up location 3, magazine 2 and airway 17,18 are fabricated in the surface of piece 15, and by sticking and encapsulate (not shown bolt) by bolt to the transparent plate 16 of piece 15.
In the use, airway 17 and 18 is coupled to controlled pulse compression source of the gas effectively.Source of the gas provides gas blowout by mouth 14, excites the element 20 in the magazine 2.Therefore, by after the gas blowout of mouth 14, one or more elements 20 can enter second portion 13 by exporting 21 at every turn.Element 20 in the second portion slides into first 12 and forms formation with the direction of arrow A usually.
If available space is arranged in updip part 5, the gas blowout of following of passing through mouth 14 will on push away element 20 in part 13 or 14 to updip part 5 (with the direction of arrow B).Further, if available space is arranged, leading one of the element 20 in the formation will be pushed into middle part 7.Yet if there is not available space in the middle part 7, based on finishing of gas blowout, because the effect of gravity, element 20 will slide updip part 5 with the direction of arrow C.The element that is arranged in updip part 5 for prevention slips into first 12, by the interval between the gas blowout of mouth 14, provides controlled pulse compression source of the gas by mouth 6.
When pick up location 3 did not have element, next gas blowout pushed position 3 with leading of element.This leading element is with applying wall 10 and be positioned at and insert under the hole 11, prepares to remove by picking up the machine of putting.Also have, if there is element 20 to be positioned at middle part 7, this will push away with the element that helps to remain ahead and fit in wall 10.
With reference to Fig. 4, describe the planar view that vicinity is picked up one group of feed-in machine 1 installing in the transmission road 22 of the machine of putting.Transmit road 22 and be used to transmit printed circuit board (PCB) 24 to the position near pick up location 3, therefore, mechanical arm 25 can be removed element in the pick up location 3 by inserting hole 11.Then, mechanical arm 25 is put element needs in their position to plate 24.
As depicted, only have one sticking and by the transparent plate 16 of bolt to piece 15.All other pieces 15 are adjacent to the surface of adjacent block 15, and this reduces the integral width of feed-in machine 1 excellently.Therefore, along the length that transmits road 22, can put more feed-in machine 1.Also have, have the conduit 26,27 of bendable to be coupled each conduit 18,17 respectively to controlled pulse compression source of the gas 28.The conduit 26,27 of bendable is connected respectively to the outlet of the conduit 18,17 that is positioned at each feed-in machine 1 lower surface, and this also reduces the integral width of feed-in machine 1.
As above the present invention who is described has limited the amount of the friction force of 20 pairs of applying walls 10 of element excellently, and does not need slotted disk and analogue.
Another advantage of the present invention is not have mechanical part control to provide element 20 to the pick up location 3 of each feed-in machine.This reduces the width of each feed-in machine 1 also excellently, therefore improves space utilization.As a result, required the picking up that cause manufacturing a product put the machine number and compared minimizing with the feed-in machine of prior art.In addition, because the present invention does not need moving-member or sensor to provide element 20 to pick up location 3, reduce maintenance cost.
Though described the present invention, should know the embodiment that the invention is not restricted to describe here with reference to embodiment preferred.

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1, feed-in machine is used for providing electronic component to picking up the machine of putting, and described feed-in machine comprises:
At least one memory storage is used to store some described elements;
Pick up location is used for providing described element to the described machine of putting of picking up;
Passage is provided at the transmission between described memory storage and the described pick up location, and described passage comprises the updip part, and it is to described pick up location updip;
Mobile device is used for moving described element along described updip part and to described pick up location.
2, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described mobile device can comprise a fluid thrust unit, is used for auxiliary described element and partly makes progress along described updip.
3, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described passage has the middle part between described pick up location and described updip part.
4, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 3, wherein, there is the member supports face at described middle part, and the member supports face of described relatively updip part has an angle.
5, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 4, wherein, the described member supports face reality at described middle part is in alignment with horizontal surface.
6, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described passage comprises the first that is provided at transmission between described memory storage and the updip part,
And wherein, the appearance of described first to described updip part at angle.
7, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 6 wherein, has device for choking fluid flow, is used to prevent that at least some described elements from skidding off described updip partial sum and slipping into described first.
8, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 7, wherein, each comprises at least one gas blowout outlet described device for choking fluid flow and described fluid thrust unit, is coupled to compressed gas source effectively,
And wherein, described source of the gas may command arrives one of described gas blowout outlet so that gas selectively to be provided.
9, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 1, wherein, described memory storage can be the magazine of related exciting bank.
10, feed-in machine as claimed in claim 8, wherein, the gas blowout of described fluid thrust unit outlet can be positioned at described magazine, so that described exciting bank to be provided.
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