Electronic component insertion machine.

摘要

A machine for inserting DIP components having different centre spacings. The magazine has a number of component magazines (30) dedicated to components of one size. The central processing unit retains the data concerning the centre spacing for each of the magazines from the previous insertion program (LAST PROGRAM MAGAZINE DATA LIBRARY) and compares this data with similar data for the next insertion program (NEW PROGRAM MAGAZINE DATA LIBRARY). If the next program requires a change in one of the magazines (a small component magazine must be changed to a large component magazine for example), the centre spacing data for the last and next programs is visually presented (38) in an adjacent format to alert the operator that a change was required.