COMPONENT SUPPLY DEVICE AND COMPONENT SUPPLY METHOD

WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/086751

A1

The present invention is provided with: multiple tiers of sticks (21-25) which each house a plurality of components (3) continuously and are disposed to be obliquely inclined in a component supply direction; a weight ball (4) which is disposed at the end of the plurality of components (3) in the stick (21-25) and presses the plurality of components (3) in the supply direction; a component supply path (5) which is continuous with the stick (21-25); a weight ball collection path (6) which is continuous with a weight ball collection hole part (14) provided in the component supply path (5); a weight ball detection sensor (7) which is provided in the weight ball collection path (6); and a raising and lowering means which is operated by a signal from the sensor (7), and when the raising and lowering means is lowered by one tier on the basis of the signal from the sensor (7), the emptied lowermost-tier stick (21) is disconnected from the component supply path. Consequently, the present invention can achieve a simpler, more compact, and lower-cost structure, and in addition to this, makes it possible to reliably detect that a stick (21-25) has been emptied and efficiently replace the emptied stick with a stick (21-25) housing components.

TSUCHIYA TAKAYUKI (JP)
KATSUYAMA HIROAKI (JP)
KAWAI TOSHIO (JP)

PCT/JP2011/079800

June 28, 2012

December 22, 2011

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YAZAKI CORP (JP)
TSUCHIYA TAKAYUKI (JP)
KATSUYAMA HIROAKI (JP)
KAWAI TOSHIO (JP)

B65G47/16

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See also references of EP 2657159A4

TAKINO, Hideo et al. (JP)
Hideo Takino (JP)

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