JP2003040449A - Substrate receiving device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a receiving device capable of easily changing over between an inclined piling method receiving substrates by resting them against an inclined receiving tool and a horizontal piling method tiering them on a floor plate placed horizontally without reloading them by a worker. SOLUTION: This substrate receiving device is provided with the inclined piling method rotatably supporting raising arm 2 having a suction pad 5, raising the raising arm at an arbitrary piling angle and piling the substrates, and the horizontal loading method piling them into the flat pile. This device is so constructed as to change over between the both methods by a changeover switch. This constitution can reduce the work conventionally performed in required to change over to the other loading method and eliminate a flaw produced during the work.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printed board manufacturing apparatus, and more particularly to a board receiving apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the past, a receiving device, after being processed, was placed in an oblique stacking system in which a substrate was raised by a jig and leaned against an inclined receiving jig to receive the conveyed substrate, or placed horizontally. They chose the horizontal loading method of stacking on the floor board or other methods, and received the work. Also,
At that time, the transshipment work was performed in response to a loading request of another method.

[0003]

Conventionally, in the receiving device, when the substrates conveyed by the conveyer after processing are stacked by the oblique stacking method in which the substrates are leaned against the inclined receiving jig and received, the rotary arm of the receiving device is used. An oblique stacking method in which a U-shaped turnback is provided at the rear end, the rotating arm body does not hold the substrate, the substrate is held by a U-shaped jig, and leans against an inclined receiving jig to receive. The substrate was transferred by rotating the arm on the substrate supporting portion of the receiving jig. Further, in the case of stacking by a horizontal stacking method of stacking on a horizontally placed floor plate, a hoist having a suction pad or the like is provided on the upper part of the conveyor, and the hoist is lifted, sucked and stacked. In the conventional receiver, these contradictory receiving methods are not compatible with each other, and an operator performs a transshipment work for a substrate received by one of the receiving methods in response to a loading request of the other method. As a result, the work load of the stacking work is increased, scratches are generated during the transshipment work, and foreign matter is attached, which causes defects in the subsequent processes. Further, there is a method of installing both types of equipment in parallel and receiving the equipment, but there is a problem of expanding the installation place and increasing the equipment investment.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an oblique stacking and stacking system in which an operator leans against a tilted receiving jig to receive it without reloading it by a worker and a step on a floor plate placed horizontally. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a receiving device that can be easily switched between the horizontal loading method for loading.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a board receiving device which raises a board and loads it on an inclined receiving jig when the board is received from an apparatus for manufacturing and processing the board in a printed board manufacturing process. It is possible to switch between a method of receiving and a method of receiving the board by stacking the boards flat on a horizontally installed floor board. According to the invention of claim 2, in the invention of claim 1, a rotary arm having a suction pad for suction-holding a substrate from the lower surface of the substrate is rotatably provided, and when the substrate is received, diagonal loading or horizontal loading is performed by rotation of the arm. It is characterized by performing.

[0006]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The structure of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 corresponding to an embodiment. The present invention, as a receiving device of a printed circuit board manufacturing apparatus, leans against a machined inclined receiving jig. This is a receiving device that can be easily switched between a diagonal stacking and loading method for receiving and then a horizontal loading method for stacking on a horizontally placed floor plate.

In the manufacturing process of the printed circuit board, when the substrate 1 transferred by the transfer roll 3 after processing is received, it is leaned against the oblique loading rack 6 which is an inclined receiving jig and received in accordance with the loading method of the next step. Diagonal loading method,
Or a horizontal loading method that stacks on a floor plate placed horizontally,
Or another method is used. This method uses suction pad 5
The holding arm 2 holds the substrate, and the driving unit 4 rotates the holding arm. A board is received as a horizontal stacking method in which the arm 2 is appropriately loaded on the diagonal loading rack 6 or flipped by switching by the arm so that the arm 2 is inverted by 180 ° and stacked on the horizontal floor plate 7.

As described above, since the substrate is sucked and held by the suction pad 5, a U-shaped stacking jig is not used at the end of the raising arm, which has been impossible in the past.
° Inversion and diagonal stacking method can be used together.

The suction pad 5 may be moved up and down or fixed to the raising arm 2. Further, suction holes may be appropriately formed in the raising arm 2 so that suction can be performed.
Moreover, the rack 6 for diagonal stacking may have any angle.

(Embodiment) The receiving method of the printed circuit board receiving apparatus of the present invention will be described below. FIG. 1 is a schematic sectional view showing an embodiment of the present invention. The raising arm 2 is
It has a suction pad 5 arranged appropriately, and detects the presence of the substrate 1 by a photoelectric sensor or the like, stops the transport roll 3 based on the detection result, and suction-holds the substrate 1. Next, when the diagonal stacking system is used, the drive unit 4 raises the arm 2 up to a preset angle to rotate the arm 2 and transfers the substrate 1 to the diagonal stacking rack 6. On the other hand, in the case of using the flat stacking method shown in FIG. 2, a changeover switch is provided to set the angle at which the arm 2 is rotated by the drive unit 4 to 180 degrees. By switching the changeover switch, the raising arm 2 can be rotated by 180 °, the substrate can be held from directly above, and the substrate can be transferred to the horizontal floor plate 7.

[0011]

The present invention makes it possible to easily switch between diagonal stacking and flat stacking in a receiver in a printed circuit board manufacturing process. As a result, the work of changing the loading method after loading is unnecessary, and the work can be reduced. Also,
Scratches and stains on the substrate surface, dust generated from the edge of the substrate, and defects in the edge of the substrate, which were caused by loading, do not occur. Further, it is not necessary to install the loading devices in parallel, and the amount of capital investment can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an oblique stacking and loading system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a flat-stack loading system showing an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Transported items (substrate) 2 provoking arm 3 transport rolls 4 drive 5 adsorption pad 6 diagonal loading rack 7 Horizontal floor board

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Kei Takahashi             Hitachi Chemical, 1500 Ogawa, Shimodate City, Ibaraki Prefecture             Shimodate Office of Industry Co., Ltd. F term (reference) 3F029 BA09 CA58 CA82

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. In a printed circuit board manufacturing process, when a board is received from an apparatus for manufacturing and processing, the board is raised and loaded on an inclined receiving jig, and the board is flatly stacked on a floor plate installed horizontally. , A substrate receiving device, which can be switched to any of a receiving system. 2. The rotating arm having a suction pad for sucking and holding a substrate from the lower surface of the substrate is rotatably provided, and when the substrate is received, diagonal loading or horizontal loading is performed by rotation of the arm. A board receiving device.