ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD
In a control unit of an electronic component mounting apparatus, when an imaging form of a component imaging unit is set to a first mode, a component recognition unit recognizes a first electronic component based on an imaged image due to a first imaging element of the component imaging unit, and recognizes a second electronic component based on an imaged image due to a second imaging element of the component imaging unit. Meanwhile, when the imaging form is set to a second mode, the component recognition unit recognizes the electronic components based on an image in which the imaged image by the first imaging element is combined with the imaged image by the second imaging element.
1 . An electronic component mounting apparatus comprising:
a component supply unit configured to supply an electronic component;
a holding unit configured to hold the electronic component supplied from the component supply unit;
a movement mechanism unit configured to move the holding unit;
a component imaging unit configured to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit;
a control unit configured to control an imaging form of the electronic component by the component imaging unit; and
a component recognition unit configured to recognize the electronic component based on an image that is imaged by the component imaging unit,
wherein the component imaging unit has an area camera that includes a first imaging element and a second imaging element each having visual fields different from each other,
the control unit sets an imaging form of the component imaging unit to a first imaging mode or a second imaging mode, depending on sizes of the electronic component that is held by the holding unit,
when the imaging form is set to the first imaging mode, the component recognition unit recognizes a first electronic component held by the holding unit, based on an image that is imaged by the first imaging element, and recognizes a second electronic component that is held together with the first electronic component by the holding unit, based on an image that is imaged by the second imaging element, and
when the imaging form is set to the second imaging mode, the component recognition unit recognizes the electronic component that is held by the holding unit, based on an image in which the image that is imaged by the first imaging element is combined with the image that is imaged by the second imaging element.
2 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the component imaging unit has a component lighting unit that lights the electronic component that is held by the holding unit during imaging, and
when the imaging form of the component imaging unit is set to the first imaging mode, the control unit delays imaging timing of the first electronic component by the first imaging element and imaging timing of the second electronic component by the second imaging element, respectively, and changes the lighting form by the component lighting unit at each imaging timing.
3 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein, when the imaging form is set to the first imaging mode, all image surfaces of the first electronic component are included in an image that is imaged by the first imaging element, and all image surfaces of the second electronic component are included in an image that is imaged by the second imaging element.
4 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, when the imaging form is set to the second imaging mode, all imaging surface of the electronic component held by the holding unit are included in an image in which the image imaged by the first imaging element and the image imaged by the second imaging element are combined with each other.
5 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a visual field of the first imaging element is adjacent to a visual field of the second imaging element.
6 . An electronic component mounting apparatus comprising:
a component supply unit configured to supply an electronic component;
a holding unit configured to hold the electronic component supplied from the component supply unit;
a movement mechanism unit configured to move the holding unit;
a component imaging unit configured to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit;
a control unit configured to control an imaging form of the electronic component by the component imaging unit; and
a component recognition unit configured to recognize the electronic components based on an image that is imaged by the component imaging unit,
wherein the component imaging unit has at least three area cameras that include two imaging elements, a visual field of a first imaging element and a visual field of a second imaging element in the two imaging elements included in each of the area cameras are different from each other, and the respective visual fields of the first imaging element and the second imaging element are common to each other regardless of the area cameras,
the control unit sets the imaging form of the component imaging unit to a first imaging mode or a second imaging mode, depending on sizes of the electronic component that are held by the holding unit,
when the imaging form is set to the first imaging mode, the component recognition unit recognizes a first electronic component held by the holding unit based on an image that is imaged by the first imaging element of each of the area cameras, and recognizes a second electronic component that is held together with the first electronic component by the holding unit based on an image that is imaged by the second imaging element of each of the area cameras, and
when the imaging form is set to the second imaging mode, the component recognition unit recognizes the electronic component that are held by the holding unit, based on an image in which the image that is imaged by the first imaging element of each of the area cameras is combined with the image that is imaged by the second imaging element of each of the area cameras.
7 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein the component imaging unit has a component lighting unit that lights the electronic component that is held by the holding unit during imaging, and
when the imaging form of the component imaging unit is set to the first imaging mode, the control unit delays imaging timing of the first electronic component by the first imaging element of each area camera and imaging timing of the second electronic component by the second imaging element of each area camera, respectively, and changes the lighting form by the component lighting unit at each imaging timing.
8 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein, when the imaging form is set to the first imaging mode, all image surfaces of the first electronic component are included in the image that is imaged by the first imaging element of each area camera, and all image surfaces of the second electronic component are included in the image that is imaged by the second imaging element of each area camera.
9 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein, when the imaging form is set to the second imaging mode, all imaging surfaces of the electronic component held by the holding unit are included in an image in which the image imaged by the first imaging element of each area camera and the image imaged by the second imaging element of each of the area cameras are combined with each other.
10 . The electronic component mounting apparatus according to claim 6 ,
wherein a visual field of the first imaging element of each of the area cameras is adjacent to a visual field of the second imaging element of each of the area cameras.
11 . An electronic component mounting method performed by an electronic component mounting apparatus comprising:
a component supply unit configured to supply the electronic component;
a holding unit configured to hold the electronic component that is supplied from the component supply unit;
a movement mechanism unit configured to move the holding unit;
a component imaging unit configured to image the electronic component that is held by the holding unit;
a control unit configured to control an imaging form of the electronic component by the component imaging unit; and
a component recognition unit configured to recognize the electronic component based on an image that is imaged by the component imaging unit,
the component imaging unit having at least three area cameras that include two imaging elements, a visual field of a first imaging element and a visual field of a second imaging element in the two imaging elements included in each of the area cameras being different from each other, and the respective visual fields of the first imaging element and the second imaging element being common to each other regardless of the area cameras,
wherein the control unit sets the imaging form of the component imaging unit to a first imaging mode or a second imaging mode depending on sizes of the electronic components that are held by the holding unit,
when the imaging form is set to the first imaging mode, the component recognition unit recognizes a first electronic component held by the holding unit based on an image that is imaged by the first imaging element of each of the area cameras, and recognizes a second electronic component that is held together with the first electronic component by the holding unit based on an image that is imaged by the second imaging element of each of the area cameras, and
when the imaging form is set to the second imaging mode, the component recognition unit recognizes the electronic components that are held by the holding unit, based on an image in which the image that is imaged by the first imaging element of each of the area cameras is combined with the image that is imaged by the second imaging element of each of the area cameras.