ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS FEEDING AND DELIVERY SYSTEM

摘要

A feeder (1) for supplying electrical components (20) to pick-and-place machine. The feeder (1) has a hopper (2) for storing the components and a pick up location (3) for supplying the components to the pick-and-place machine. A channel (4) provides communication between the hopper (2) and pick up location (3). The channel (4) has an upwardly inclined portion (5) which is upwardly inclined towards the pick up location (3) and there are controlled air jet through nozzles (14, 6) for providing pulsed air jets to push the components (20) up the inclined portion and towards the pick up location (3). Further, one of the air jets passing through the nozzle (6) is used to stop the components from sliding out of the inclined portion (5).