BACKUP PIN AND AUTOMATED BACKUP-PIN SWAP SYSTEM

摘要

Backup pins 11 and 12 that support, from below, a circuit board on which a component is mounted at a component mounting station of a component mounting machine are configured to have a holder portion 13 on the lower side thereof and a pin portion 14 and 15 on the upper side thereof which are interchangeably held in the holder portion 13, respectively. The pin portions 14 and 15 are formed of different materials and/or have different shapes and one pin portion 14 is a hard pin portion formed of a hard material such as metal or plastic in a multi-step cylindrical shape and the other pin portion 15 is a soft pin portion formed of a soft elastic material such as urethane or rubber. The holder portion 13 is formed of a hard material such as metal or plastic and a fitting hole 16 having a circular shape in a cross-sectional view is formed on the upper side of the holder portion to fit to the lower side of the pin portions 14 and 15 and to hold the pin portions 14 and 15 facing upward.