JP4598723B2 - Electronic component mounting machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic component mounter that picks up a component and mounts it on a predetermined substrate. More specifically, the present invention relates to a component mounting head that selects an arbitrary one from a plurality of mounting nozzles held in a holding unit at a nozzle standby position. The present invention relates to an electronic component mounting machine that can be attached to.

  2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, electronic component mounting machines that mount electronic components on an electronic circuit board have used various types of nozzles in accordance with the types and diversification of electronic components. For example, there are many types of nozzles, such as small nozzles, large nozzles, special nozzles, and nozzles with regulating claws that perform component position adjustment, depending on the type of component, such as the size of the component to be sucked, and the type of work. In order to cope with the provided head, a nozzle change has been performed in the head.

  Hereinafter, a conventional component mounter will be described with reference to FIG. The component mounting machine has a nozzle standby position 1 having a nozzle replacement function, a mounting head 6, a circuit board transfer device 13, and a component supply unit 14, and the mounting head 6 has a predetermined position on the component supply unit 14 and the transfer device 13. Is moved in the XY direction between the circuit board positioned at the nozzle position and the nozzle standby position 1 and attached to the moving body 8 as a component mounting portion.

FIG. 9 shows a moving body 8 provided with a nozzle provided with a storage medium. A nozzle 2 provided with a storage medium, a storage medium 3, a mounting head 6, and an information reading and writing unit 7 for the storage medium are provided. If the nozzle standby position and the nozzle replacement operation of the head are performed, the nozzle information of the nozzle attached to the head after the nozzle replacement is read / written via the information in the storage medium 3 after the nozzle replacement is completed. 7 is read. The read information is sent to the control device to make a determination. If it is appropriate, the mounting process is continued as it is. If it is inappropriate, the mounting nozzle is returned to the nozzle standby position and replaced with an appropriate mounting nozzle. This prevented an installation error of the mounting head. This configuration has been filed as Japanese Patent Application No. 3-75522.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 4-311097 (Japanese Patent Application No. 3-75522)

  However, in the configuration as described above, there is no means for determining whether the nozzle set at the nozzle standby position is in an appropriate position or in an inappropriate position, and must be after the nozzle is attached to the mounting head. For example, it is impossible to determine whether or not an appropriate nozzle is attached. When an inappropriate nozzle is attached, the nozzle must be replaced again, resulting in a loss of tact.

  In order to solve the above problems, in a nozzle replaceable electronic component mounting machine equipped with a nozzle having a recording medium for storing various kinds of nozzle information and a reading and writing unit for information with respect to the storage medium, the nozzle standby position is set. An information reading / writing unit for the storage medium is provided.

  According to the present invention, by reading the nozzle information from the nozzle storage medium installed at the nozzle standby position, it is possible to determine whether the nozzle installed at the nozzle standby position is in an appropriate position, and properly mounting the nozzle. This makes it possible to prevent the occurrence of tact loss due to nozzle replacement as in the conventional apparatus.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a nozzle having a recording medium for storing various types of nozzle information, a reading and writing unit for reading information from the nozzle storage medium at each nozzle standby position, and nozzle detection at each nozzle standby position Nozzle type matching method in an electronic component mounting machine equipped with a nozzle detection unit for performing nozzle reading when information on the nozzle storage medium at the nozzle standby position and nozzle data cannot be read from the writing unit When the nozzle detection unit that detects the nozzle at the position cannot detect the nozzle, a step of setting an empty nozzle standby position;
When the nozzle data can be read from the information reading and writing unit for the nozzle storage medium at the nozzle standby position, the nozzle type stored in the storage medium read using the information reading and writing unit, and And a nozzle type matching method for an electronic component mounting machine characterized by comprising at least a step of checking the consistency of the nozzle type based on the nozzle type data at the nozzle standby position in the machine body, and the data is inconsistent In this case, it is possible to reduce the loss of nozzle replacement time caused by attaching an inappropriate nozzle to the head by issuing a data mismatch error and prompting the operator to give a warning.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  Here, the diagram showing the overall arrangement and the diagram showing the head configuration are the same as those in FIGS. 8 and 9 of the conventional example, and the description thereof is omitted here.

  FIG. 1 is a side view showing a nozzle standby device having a unit for reading and writing information on a storage medium, and FIG. 2 is a plan view thereof. In the figure, 1 is a nozzle standby position, 2 is a nozzle provided with a storage medium, 3 is a storage medium, 4 is an information reading and writing unit, 5 is a nozzle detection sensor, 6 is a mounting head, and 7 is installed in the mounting head. Information reading and writing unit. The nozzle set at the nozzle standby position is set in a fixed direction so that the nozzle information is read by the reading and writing unit 4 via the storage medium. When the nozzle is set at the component standby position 1 from the component mounting head 6, the setting is performed after the information reading and writing unit 7 installed on the mounting head 6 is rotated 180 ° from the position where the storage medium 3 can be read. The detection of the nozzle storage medium 3 set at the nozzle standby position 1 is performed at the start of the component mounting operation. Even at other timings, it can be performed at any time if the operator gives an instruction.

  In the information reading / writing unit 4, the read nozzle type is sent to the control controller in the main body, and it is checked whether or not it matches the data indicating the nozzle type at each nozzle standby position. A flowchart of the operation for checking the consistency of the nozzle type is shown in FIG.

  The operation procedure will be described with reference to FIG. First, the information reading and writing unit 4 in FIG. 1 reads nozzle data from the nozzle storage medium 3, and if the reading cannot be performed, the nozzle detection sensor 5 detects the nozzle. In the process and in the previous process, if the nozzle cannot be detected, a process of making an empty station, a process of displaying a message prompting confirmation of the orientation of the storage medium if the detection can be performed, and confirmation of the orientation of the storage medium After that, start production again. If reading is possible in step 1, nozzle type data is extracted from the read data (step 2). Next, it is compared whether the nozzle type data at the nozzle standby position in the machine body is the same as the data read from the nozzle storage medium (step 6). If the data is inconsistent, a data inconsistency error is issued to alert the operator (step 7). Next, the number of nozzle standby positions and the number of checked nozzle standby positions are compared, and it is determined whether the nozzle standby position to be checked remains (step 8). The same process is performed for the next nozzle standby position. When all the operations are completed, it is checked whether the nozzle type data at the nozzle standby position in the machine body and the data read from the nozzle storage medium are consistent.

  In step 6, when the data is inconsistent, the machine operation mode is switched as shown in step 7 ″ of the flowchart of FIG. 4 to change the machine type to the nozzle type actually set after the warning is generated in step 7. An operation of changing the nozzle type data at the nozzle standby position in the main body can be performed.

  If there is no nozzle type data at the nozzle standby position in the machine body, the nozzle type is read by the information reading and writing unit 4 of the nozzle standby position 1 and the nozzle type data at each position of the nozzle standby position is created. Is possible. In addition, when creating the nozzle type data at each position of the nozzle standby position, it is a precondition that the nozzle 2 is not set in the head 6.

  A flowchart of this operation is shown in FIG. The nozzle data is read from the nozzle storage medium 3 by the information reading and writing unit 4 in FIG. 1 (step 11). When reading cannot be performed, the nozzle is detected by the nozzle detection sensor 5 (step 13). When the detection cannot be performed, an empty nozzle standby position is set (step 14), and the process proceeds to step 16. If detection is possible, it is assumed that the position of the storage medium of the nozzle is bad and the storage medium cannot be read, so an error is generated, the machine is stopped, and a message prompting you to confirm the orientation of the storage medium is displayed. Then, after confirming the orientation of the storage medium, production is started again (step 15). If reading is possible in step 11, nozzle type data is extracted from the read data (step 12). The nozzle type of the data read from the storage medium or the information of the idle standby position is input to the storage area of the nozzle standby position (step 16). Next, by comparing the number of nozzle standby positions with the number of nozzle standby positions where the reading operation of the nozzle storage medium has been performed, it is determined whether the nozzle standby positions for reading information from the nozzle storage medium remain. If it remains, return to step 11 to perform the same process. When all the processes are completed, data indicating the nozzle type at the nozzle standby position is created.

In FIG. 1, the information reading / writing unit 4 and the nozzle detection sensor 5 are attached to each of the nozzle standby positions. However, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the movable body can move the nozzle standby position in parallel. By attaching the information reading / writing unit 4 and the nozzle detection sensor 5 to 9, the number of information reading / writing units and nozzle detection sensors can be reduced. As a result, the interface between the information reading / writing unit and the control controller in the main body can be reduced, and the control configuration of the entire machine can be simplified. Here, 10 is a ball screw for operating the moving body 9, 11 is a motor, and 12 is a movable cable for supplying power to the information reading / writing unit 4 and the nozzle detection sensor 5.
As for the operation of the moving body 9, the storage medium is read / written and the nozzle is detected from a predetermined nozzle standby position, and after the operation is completed, the operation moves to the adjacent nozzle standby position and the same operation is repeated. By repeating this operation for all nozzle standby positions, the same effect can be realized as when the information reading and writing unit and the nozzle detection sensor are attached to each nozzle standby position.

  As described above, the present invention provides a nozzle-replaceable electronic component characterized in that the nozzle itself has various nozzle information using the nozzle provided with the storage medium and the information reading and writing unit for the storage medium. In the mounting machine, by providing information reading and writing unit at the nozzle standby position, it is possible to determine whether the nozzle is in the proper position at the nozzle standby position before attaching the nozzle to the head. The nozzle replacement time loss caused by attaching a new nozzle to the head can be reduced, and by reading the nozzle data from the nozzle storage medium set at the nozzle standby position, Data indicating the nozzle type at the nozzle standby position can be created, and the nozzle standby position in the machine body It is possible to ensure consistency between the nozzle types are actually attached to the nozzle waiting position with Le type data, it is useful as a nozzle converter of the electronic component mounting apparatus.

It is a side view of the nozzle standby position provided with the reading and writing part of the information with respect to the storage medium of the nozzle of one Example of this invention. It is a top view of the nozzle standby position provided with the reading and writing part of the information with respect to the storage medium of the nozzle of one Example of this invention. It is a flowchart (1) of the operation | movement which checks the consistency of the nozzle classification data of the nozzle standby position in a machine main body, and the nozzle classification installed in the actual nozzle standby position. It is a flowchart (2) of the operation | movement which checks the consistency of the nozzle classification data of the nozzle standby position in a machine main body, and the nozzle classification actually installed in the nozzle standby position. It is a flowchart of the operation | movement which produces the nozzle classification data of a nozzle standby position from the nozzle classification installed in the nozzle standby position. It is a side view of the nozzle standby position of the structure which enabled the movement of the reading and writing part of information and a nozzle detection sensor. It is a front view of the nozzle standby position of the structure which enabled the reading and writing part of information and the nozzle detection sensor to be movable. It is a perspective view of the whole mounting machine. It is a figure which shows the head structure provided with the reading and writing part of the information with respect to the storage medium of a nozzle.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Nozzle standby position 2 Nozzle provided with the storage medium 3 Storage medium 4 Information reading / writing unit for the storage medium of the nozzle (standby position)
5 Nozzle detection sensor 6 Mounted head 7 Information reading and writing unit (head unit) for nozzle storage medium
8 Moving body (head)
9 Mobile body (standby position)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Ball screw 11 Motor 12 Movable cable 13 Circuit board transfer apparatus 14 Component supply part

Claims (1)

An electronic device including a nozzle having a recording medium for storing various types of nozzle information, a reading and writing unit for reading information from the nozzle storage medium at each nozzle standby position, and a nozzle detection unit for detecting the nozzle at each nozzle standby position A nozzle type matching method in a component mounter,
A movable body equipped with an information reading and writing unit and a nozzle detection unit is provided so as to be movable in parallel to the nozzle standby position of each nozzle.
When the nozzle detection unit that detects the nozzle at the nozzle standby position cannot perform the nozzle detection when the nozzle data cannot be read from the nozzle storage medium at the nozzle standby position. A process of setting an empty nozzle standby position;
When the nozzle data can be read from the information reading and writing unit for the nozzle storage medium at the nozzle standby position, the nozzle type stored in the storage medium read using the information reading and writing unit, and And a nozzle type matching method for an electronic component mounting machine, comprising at least a step of checking the consistency of the nozzle type based on the nozzle type data at the nozzle standby position in the machine body.

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