公开(公告)号：EP1109629A4

公开(公告)日：2005-05-25

申请号：EP00979232

申请日：2000-04-24

申请人： ELECTRO SCIENT IND INC

发明人： GARCIA DOUGLAS J ,  TWITE MARTIN J

IPC分类号： G01R31/26 ,  B07C5/344 ,  B65G47/86 ,  G01R11/04 ,  G01R31/00 ,  G01R31/01 ,  G06T9/00 ,  H04N7/50

CPC分类号： G01R31/01 ,  B07C5/344 ,  H04N19/115 ,  H04N19/124 ,  H04N19/132 ,  H04N19/149 ,  H04N19/152 ,  H04N19/172 ,  H04N19/61 ,  Y10S209/919 ,  Y10S209/932

摘要： A handler for testing and sorting randomly oriented parallel piped-shaped ceramic components (2), each component (2) having at leas one set of metal terminations (6) located on opposite edges, comprising a rotating feed wheel (16) mounting on a central shaft and including an upper surface to receive randomly oriented components (2), a plurality of radially-pointing, spaced-apart bosses (28) extending upward and outward terminating at component-sized cavities (30) to receive a component (2), a rotating carrier plate (10) having an upwardly extending circular peripheral wall (12) which has test seat notches (14) in spaced-apart arrangement with the cavities in the feed wheel (16), first vacuum pressure device (36) to draw the component (2) into the seat notch and a second vacuum pressure device (86) to hold the component therein, a device (22) for testing including at least one roller assembly (62) arranged to contact the component terminals (6), and a device (26) for separately ejecting the components from the notches (14).