JP2000082875A - Coating-agent applying device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow rapid trial coating on a surface to be coated in trial by allowing easy trial coating on the surface to be coated in trial, so that no large part remains without applying trial for saving a lot of waste on the surface. SOLUTION: A coating machine 19 which allows a coating agent 21 to be normally coated on a printed board 1 at 'a specified position' through a nozzle part 20, and a body 23 which is coated in trial and provided outside the printed board 1 for a coating agent 21' to be coated in trial through the nozzle part 20, are provided. A surface 32 which is coated in trial and allows the body 23 to be coated with the coating agent 21' in trial, and a driving means for moving the surface 32, are provided. At least a part of the surface 32 is positioned at 'other specified position' which is relative to the printed board 1 by the driving means, for trial coating on that part.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method of applying a coating material such as an adhesive or a cream solder on a top surface of a printed circuit board in a regular manner prior to the regular coating. The present invention relates to a coating device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a chip component is mounted on the upper surface of a printed circuit board, a coating agent such as an adhesive or cream solder is applied to the upper surface of the printed circuit board properly by a coating device. Chip components are attached to the upper surface of the printed circuit board.

[0003] Among the above-mentioned coating apparatuses, there are those conventionally constituted as follows.

[0004] That is, a conveying means for conveying a printed board in a substantially horizontal position and positioning the printed board at a predetermined position, and applying a coating material for attaching chip components to the upper surface of the printed board at the predetermined position through a nozzle portion. And a coating machine which can extrude the coating agent to apply the coating agent properly.

[0005] Then, a chip component is attached to the upper surface of the printed circuit board by using a coating agent that has been properly applied.

Usually, the above coating agent has a large viscosity and is easily cured when exposed to the outside air. For this reason, after the coating is performed through the nozzle unit by the coating machine, if a certain period is passed and then the normal coating is performed again by the coating machine, the coating agent is hardened by the nozzle unit and becomes clogged. It may be difficult for the chip parts to come out, or the application to each application position may be non-uniform, so that the strength of attaching the chip component to the printed circuit board may vary.

Therefore, in order to more uniformly apply the coating agent on the upper surface of the printed board, conventionally, the coating agent is disposed outside the printed board at the predetermined position in plan view. A test object to which a coating agent can be test-applied is provided through a nozzle portion of the machine, and the nozzle portion is relatively movable from an upper position of the test object to an upper position of the printed circuit board. What has been proposed.

According to this structure, the test coating can be performed on the test application surface of the test application body before the normal coating on the printed circuit board. Is available.

[0009]

However, according to the above-mentioned prior art, the area of the test application surface of the test application body is set to a predetermined size. If the test application surface is subjected to a large number of trial applications, such as when the test application surface is hardened, the area of the test application surface may become insufficient. At this time, it is conceivable to replace the test application body with a new member of another member, but this makes the work of the test application complicated.

Therefore, it is conceivable to make the test application surface large in area. However, in this case, if the test application to the test application surface is performed only a few times, there is a waste that a portion that is not subjected to the test application is largely left on the test application surface.

Further, as described above, when the area of the test application surface is increased, the trial application of the coating agent over the entire test application surface is accompanied by the size of the test application surface. As a result, the operating range of the nozzle portion is increased, and accordingly, the quick operation of the trial coating may be hindered.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to facilitate the work of trial coating on a test application surface of a test application body.

Further, even when the above-mentioned object is achieved, it is possible to prevent a large portion of the test application surface from not being subjected to the test application from being left, so that a large waste occurs on the test application surface. It is another object of the present invention to quickly perform a test application operation on the test application surface.

[0014]

The features of the present invention for achieving the above object are as follows.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a transportation means for transporting a printed board 1 having a substantially horizontal posture and positioning it at a predetermined position (hereinafter referred to as a "predetermined position"); A coating machine 19 for extruding a coating material 21 for sticking chip components through a nozzle portion 20 onto the upper surface of the printed circuit board 1 of FIG.
A test application body 23 disposed outside the printed circuit board 1 at the "predetermined position" in a plan view and through which the application agent 21 'can be test-applied through the nozzle portion 20 of the application machine 19; And a coating agent coating apparatus in which the nozzle portion 20 is relatively movable from a position above the test coating body 23 to a position above the printed board 1.

The test object 23 is coated with the coating agent 2
A test application surface 32 that enables test application 1 ′ and a driving unit 2 that drives the test application surface 32 to move.
The test application surface 32 is driven by the driving unit 29 to another predetermined position relative to the printed circuit board 1 at the “predetermined position” (hereinafter, referred to as “other predetermined position”). And at least a portion thereof is subjected to the test application.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the first aspect of the present invention, the position of the printed circuit board 1 at the "other predetermined position" is located near the outside of the printed circuit board 1 positioned at the "predetermined position" in plan view. A part of the test application surface 32 to be tested is provided.

The invention of claim 3 is the invention of claim 1 or 2
In addition to the invention, the test application surface 32 is alternately moved and stopped by the driving means 29,
The test application is performed on a part of the test application surface 32 at the time of the stop.

[0019]

[Operation] The operation of the above configuration is as follows.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the coating machine 1 is mounted on the upper surface of the printed circuit board 1 positioned at the "predetermined position".
When the coating material 21 is to be applied regularly according to Step 9, first, prior to the regular application, the coating material 21 ′ is test-applied to a part of the test application surface 32 of the test application body 23. After confirming that the coating agent 21 ′ for coating is appropriate, the above-described regular coating may be performed.

In the above case, when the coating material 21 is hardened more by the nozzle portion 20 and the test application surface 32 is to be applied many times, the test application surface 32
May cause the area to be insufficient.

Therefore, when the shortage occurs as described above, the test application surface 32 is moved by driving the driving means 29. In this case, for example, the relative movement of the test application surface 32 with respect to the scraper causes Then, the coating agent 21 ′ that was being test-applied to a portion of the test application surface 32 is scraped off, and a portion of the test application surface 32 is moved to the “other predetermined position” again by moving the test application surface 32. What is necessary is just to continue the above-mentioned trial application to a new part.

Therefore, when a large number of trial coatings are to be performed on the test application surface 32, even if the area of a part of the test application surface 32 is insufficient, the test application surface 32 is simply driven by the driving unit 29. Is moved, a part of the new test application surface 32 positioned at the “other predetermined position” compensates for the shortage of the area for the test application. When the area of the trial application surface 32 is insufficient, it is not necessary to perform a complicated operation of replacing the trial application surface 32 with a new one of different members.

Further, even if the area of a part of the test application surface 32 located at the "other predetermined position" is insufficient for a large number of test applications as described above, this is because
9 is easily compensated for by the driving of the test application surface 3.
The area of a part of 2 is small enough.

[0025]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 2 to FIG. 4, reference numeral 1 denotes a printed circuit board. In the device shown in the figure, when a chip component is attached to the upper surface of the printed circuit board 1 in a substantially horizontal posture, This is for applying a coating agent such as an adhesive or cream solder.

For convenience of explanation, the direction of the arrow Fr in FIG. 2 is defined as the front, and the following left and right refer to the direction toward the front.

A transport means for transporting the printed circuit board 1 and positioning it at a "predetermined position" is provided. The transport means includes a conveyor 2 for transporting the printed circuit board 1 forward, which is a substantially horizontal direction. The conveyor 2 has a pair of left and right conveyor frames 3 extending in the front-rear direction. Each of the conveyor frames 3 supports the forward side of an endless conveyor belt 4 that moves forward. The printed circuit board 1 is supported on the left and right conveyor belts 4 and 4 and is transported forward. Further, a stopper 5 is provided near the upper side of the conveyor belt 4.

When the printed circuit board 1 advances as shown by the solid line arrow in FIG. 2 and reaches the position shown by the solid line, an entrance sensor 6 for detecting the position is provided. A main stopper 7 is provided on the left conveyor frame 3 in front of the entrance sensor 6 so as to be movable up and down.

As shown by a virtual arrow in FIG. 2, when the printed board 1 conveyed by the conveyor 2 reaches a predetermined position shown by a two-dot chain line in FIG. By the main stopper 7, which has been stopped, further forward conveyance is stopped.

A pair of front and rear positioning holes 8 are formed on the left side edge of the printed circuit board 1, and positioning projections 9 are provided behind the main stopper 7 so as to be removably fitted into the respective positioning holes 8. The positioning projection 9 is provided with a first pneumatic type mounted on the left conveyor frame 3.
The cylinder 10 can move up and down freely.

A connecting frame 11 for connecting the left and right conveyor frames 3 and 3 is provided. A push-up body 12 that can move up and down is provided below the printed circuit board 1 (indicated by a two-dot chain line in FIG. 2) at the predetermined position while the printed circuit board 1 is being conveyed by the conveyor 2. The main body of the push-up body 12 is constituted by a push-up plate that extends substantially horizontally and moves up and down.

The push-up body 12 is disposed between the left and right conveyor frames 3 and 3 in a plan view, and is supported by a second cylinder 13 attached to the connecting frame 11 so as to be able to move up and down. The push-up body 12 includes a pair of front and rear push-up pins 15 projecting from the upper surface of the push-up plate as a main body. Each of the push-up pins 15 has a vertical axis and is detachably attached to the upper surface of the push-up plate by a bolt 16. The projecting end of each of the push-up pins 15 can be adjusted vertically. I have.

As described above, the position sensor 17 for detecting when the printed board 1 conveyed by the conveyor 2 reaches the predetermined position indicated by a virtual line in FIG. 2 is provided. By the detection of the position sensor 17, first, the first cylinder 10 is operated, and the respective positioning projections 9, 9 are raised as shown by a dashed line and an arrow A in FIG. At the same time, the printed board 1 is pushed up until it comes into contact with the stopper 5. Thereby, the positioning of the printed circuit board 1 in the front-rear direction and the vertical direction is performed.

Next, the second cylinder 13 is actuated to raise the push-up body 12, and as shown by the dashed line and arrow B in FIG. 1 is pushed up to a predetermined height as a whole, whereby the downward bending of the left and right halfway portions of the printed circuit board 1 is corrected and the printed circuit board 1 is lifted.
Has a horizontal attitude such that its upper surface is substantially horizontal as a whole. Thereby, the printed circuit board 1 is positioned at the “predetermined position”.

A robot (not shown) is provided with a coating machine 19, and the coating agents 21 and 21 ′ for sticking chip components can be extruded through a nozzle 20 of the coating machine 19. Then, as described above, the coating material 21 is applied to the upper surface of the printed board 1 positioned at the “predetermined position” by the coating machine 19 so that the nozzle portion 20 is formed.
, And can be applied regularly.

The printed board 1 by the coating machine 19
Prior to the regular application of the coating material 21 to the upper surface of the device, a trial coating device is provided which enables the coating of the coating material 21 ′ through the nozzle section 20 of the coating machine 19.

1 to 7, the test coating apparatus includes a test coating body 23 attached to a push-up plate of the push-up body 12. The test object 23 is disposed on the rear side of the printed circuit board 1 near the outside of the printed circuit board 1 at the “predetermined position” in a plan view. Machine 1
The coating agent 21 ′ can be trial-coated through the nozzle section 20 of the nozzle 9. The nozzle section 20 is relatively movable from a position above the test application surface 32 of the test application body 23 toward an upper position of the “predetermined position” of the printed circuit board 1.

The test coated body 23 on the push-up body 12
When the first bracket 25 is detachably screwed to the push-up plate by the first fastening means 24, and the first fastening means 24 has an elongated hole, the first bracket 25 ,
The left and right positions are adjustable. In addition, the first
The second bracket 27 is detachably screwed to the bracket 25 by the second fastening means 26, and the second bracket 27 has an elongated hole.
The vertical position is adjustable. The test object 23 is attached to the second bracket 27. With the above configuration, the relative position of the test application body 23 with respect to the push-up body 12 can be adjusted vertically and horizontally.

The test object 23 has a driving means 29. The driving means 29 has a pneumatic rotary cylinder constituting its main body, and a casing having the cylinder inside. The casing has two bolts. 30, 30
Thus, it is detachably screwed to the second bracket 27. The test application body 23 has a circular turntable 31 supported by the push-up body 12 via a casing of the driving means 29 so as to be rotatable (movable) around a vertical axis. I have. The turntable 31 is driven by the rotary cylinder of the driving means 29 to
It is driven so as to reciprocate (move) around the axis within the range of 80 °.

The upper surface of the turntable 31 of the test application body 23 is a test application surface 32, and the coating agent 21 ′ can be test-applied to the test application surface 32 by the coating machine 19. A discharge groove 33 extending radially is formed on the test application surface 32, and the bottom surface of the discharge groove 33 is inclined downward as it goes radially outward of the test application surface 32. On the outer peripheral portion of the turntable 31, an annular receiving portion 34 is formed coaxially with the turntable 31, and the receiving portion 34
3 is provided below the outer end.

Support arms 36 are provided in front of and behind the turntable 31, respectively. The support arms 36 are fastened together with the casing of the driving means 29 by the bolts 30. The two support arms 36, 36
A scraper 37 is detachably mounted on an upper end of the test application surface by bolts 38, and the scraper 37
2 (including sliding contact) and extends along the test application surface 32. An auxiliary scraper 39 is integrally formed at the front of the scraper 37. The auxiliary scraper 39 is provided close to (including sliding contact with) the outer peripheral surface of the turntable 31 connected to the test application surface 32. I have. Each of the scrapers 37 and 39 is provided with the support arm 3.
6 and the like, and is attached to the push-up body 12.

Referring particularly to FIG.
When the push-up body 12 moves upward by the operation of the above, and the printed circuit board 1 is positioned at the “predetermined position”, at least a part of the test application surface 32 of the test application body 23 that has risen together with the push-up body 12. The printed circuit board 1 at the "predetermined position" is driven by the driving means 29.
4, and the upper surface of the test application surface 32 is, as shown by a dashed line in FIG.
Is approximately the same height as the upper surface.

The test application surface 32 is connected to the driving means 2
The rotation (movement) by 9 and the stop are alternately performed.

In FIGS. 1 and 8, a portion of the test application surface 32 at the time of the stop (the portion where the application agent 21 'is trial-applied in FIG. 8) is 21 ', the nozzle section 20 of the applicator 19 is horizontally moved as indicated by a horizontal arrow indicated by a dashed line in FIG. 4, and is positioned at a desired upper position of the printed circuit board 1. Therefore, the regular application of the coating agent 21 is performed.

As shown in FIG. 8, when a predetermined amount of the coating material 21 'adheres to a part of the test application surface 32 by the above-described test application when the test application surface 32 is stopped, an arrow D in FIG. As shown by, the drive means 29 causes the turntable 31 to rotate forward by 180 ° in one direction. Then, the coating agent 21 ′ applied to a part of the test application surface 32 is scraped off by the scraper 37, and a part of the test application surface 32 is cleaned.

Next, as shown by an arrow E in FIG.
By rotating back by 0 °, the cleaned part of the test application surface 32 is positioned at the “other predetermined position”. Then, test application can be performed again on a new part of the test application surface 32.

In the case described above, the lump of the coating agent 21 ′ scraped off by the scraper 37 falls directly from the test application surface 32 to the receiving tray portion 34 and is collected or discharged.
And is guided by this to be stored in the receiving tray portion 34.

The coating agent 21 'attached to the outer peripheral surface of the turntable 31 is scraped off by the auxiliary scraper 39, and is directly dropped and stored in the receiving tray 34.

Thereafter, the above operation is repeated, and the test application is performed one after another. The test object 2
The operation of 3 may be automatically linked to the movement of the coating machine 19.

[0051]

The effects of the present invention are as follows.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a transporting means for transporting a printed board having a substantially horizontal posture and positioning it at a "predetermined position", and attaching a chip component to the upper surface of the printed board at the "predetermined position". And an extruder that extrudes and extrudes an application agent through a nozzle portion to apply the application agent properly, and a nozzle of the application device that is disposed outside the printed board at the “predetermined position” in plan view. A test application body through which the application agent can be test-applied, and the nozzle portion is relatively movable from an upper position of the test application body toward an upper position of the printed circuit board. In the agent application device,

The test application body includes a test application surface that enables the test application of the coating agent, and a driving unit that drives the test application surface to move the test application surface. "Other predetermined position" relative to
Then, at least a part of the test application surface is positioned by driving the driving means, and the test application is performed on this part.

Therefore, when the coating material is to be applied to the upper surface of the printed circuit board positioned at the "predetermined position" by the coating machine, first, prior to the normal coating, the test object The test application may be applied to a part of the test application surface, and the proper application may be performed after confirming that the application of the test application is appropriate.

In the above case, if a large number of trial coatings are to be performed on the test application surface, for example, when the coating agent is hardened at the nozzle portion, the area may be insufficient with only a part of the test application surface. Occurs.

Therefore, when the shortage occurs as described above, the test application surface is moved by driving the driving means. In this case, for example, the relative movement of the test application surface with respect to the scraper causes the test application surface to move. A portion of the test application surface was scraped off the coating agent that had been test-applied, and by moving the test application surface, a portion of the test application surface was again positioned at the “other predetermined position”, and the above-described new portion was applied. The trial application may be continued.

Therefore, when a large number of trial coatings are to be performed on the test coating surface, even if a partial area of the test coating surface is insufficient, the test coating surface can be simply moved by driving the driving means. For example, by this, by a part of the new test application surface located at the "other predetermined position",
The shortage of the area for the test application is compensated for, and therefore, when the area of the test application surface is insufficient, it is not necessary to perform a complicated operation of replacing this with a new member of another member, and accordingly, The trial coating operation can be easily performed.

As described above, even if the area of a part of the test application surface located at the "other predetermined position" is insufficient for a large number of test applications, this is easily compensated for by driving the driving means. Therefore, the area of a part of the test application surface is small.

Therefore, even when the trial application to a part of the test application surface is sufficient for a small number of times, it is possible to prevent a large portion of the test application surface that is not subjected to the trial application from being wasted. . In addition, when the area of a part of the test application surface is reduced as described above, even when the test application is performed over the entirety of the test application surface, the operation range of the nozzle portion is small, and the test range is correspondingly small. The application operation can be performed quickly.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in a plan view, a portion of the test application surface positioned at the “other predetermined position” is located near the outside of the printed circuit board positioned at the “predetermined position”. It is arranged.

For this reason, after a trial application is performed by a nozzle portion on a portion of the test application surface positioned at the “other predetermined position”, the nozzle portion is moved above the printed circuit board at the “predetermined position”. In the case of performing the normal application, a part of the test application surface, which is positioned at the “other predetermined position” with respect to the printed circuit board as described above, is positioned near the outside of the printed circuit board, The movement of the nozzle portion from the position above the test application surface portion to the position above the printed circuit board can be made quick, that is,
The test application work can be performed quickly.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the test application surface is
The movement by the drive means and the stop are alternately performed, and the test application is performed on a part of the test application surface at the time of the stop.

For this reason, since the test application by the nozzle portion is performed on a part of the test application surface that has been stopped, the control of the relative movement between the nozzle portion and the test application surface is simplified. The trial coating operation can be easily performed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a sectional view taken along line II of FIG.

FIG. 2 is an overall plan view.

FIG. 3 is a view taken along line III-III of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a partially enlarged operation of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 6 is a view taken along line VI-VI of FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a perspective view.

FIG. 8 is an operation explanatory view in a plan view of a turntable and a scraper.

FIG. 9 is a plan view of a turntable and a scraper and is an operation explanatory view.

FIG. 10 is a plan view of a turntable and a scraper and is an operation explanatory view.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Printed circuit board 19 Coating machine 20 Nozzle part 21, 21 'Coating agent 23 Coating body to be tested 29 Driving means 32 Coating surface to be tested

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A transporting means for transporting a printed board placed in a substantially horizontal position and positioning it at a predetermined position, and applying an application agent for attaching chip components to a top surface of the printed board at the predetermined position through a nozzle portion. An extruder that extrudes and can apply the coating agent properly, and a coating agent that is disposed outside the printed board at the predetermined position in a plan view and can be applied through a nozzle portion of the coating machine in a trial view. A coating material for applying the test object, wherein the nozzle portion is relatively movable from a position above the test object to a position above the printed circuit board. Has a test application surface that enables the test application of the coating agent, and a driving unit that drives the test application surface to move the test application surface, and the driving unit moves the test application surface at another predetermined position relative to the printed circuit board at the predetermined position. Drive At least a portion by positioning the coating device of the coating agent so as to the trial coating on the portion driven by the the trial coating surface means. 2. A part of the test application surface located at the other predetermined position is provided near the outside of the printed circuit board located at the predetermined position in plan view.
A coating device for applying the coating agent according to item 1. 3. The test application surface is alternately moved and stopped by the driving means, and a test application is performed on a part of the test application surface at the time of the stop. Or the coating device for applying the coating agent according to 2.