To provide a bulk feeder in which a supply passage where an electronic component flowing in a taking-in opening moves is shortened as much as possible and thereby electronic component clogging is prevented in a process of movement of the electronic component in the supply passage.
The bulk feeder includes the taking-in opening 18a in which the electronic component EC1 in a length direction is made to flow in a process of upward movement of a permanent magnet 40 caused by rotation of a rotor 40, the supply passage 18 in which the electronic component EC1 in the length direction taken in through the taking-in opening 18a is made to move in the same direction, and a taking-out opening 19 with an opened upper surface from which the electronic component EC1 having moved along the supply passage 18 is taken out. Namely, the taking-out opening 19 is provided at a front end of the supply passage 18 extended from the taking-in opening 18a to above a storage chamber 16, so that the supply passage 18 is shortened as much as possible.
Yukio Nagauchi
Junichiro Yanagi
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