COMPONENT TAPING METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

In a component holder (3), a multiplicity of component storages (4) for storing components (1) therein are provided longitudinally and having openings (4a) on one surface. Each of the component storages (4) has a shutter which becomes stable both at a projectional position where the shutter is projected into the opening (4a) to thereby prevent the component (1) from falling off and at a retreat position where the shutter is retreated from the projectional position, and which shutter is moved between the two positions by a more than certain level of urging force. By the component holder (3), the components (1) are stored in the component storages (4) with the shutters (12) in the retreat positions, while the openings (4a) of the component storages (4) are directed upward. The shutter (12) of each component storage (4) after the components (1) have been stored therein is moved to the projectional position and closed, where the components (1) are taped one after another so as to be formed into continuous taped components (22), thus achieving the object.