Multiple insertion head

Abstract

A multiple insertion head for mounting components onto substrates includes a carrier configured to rotate about a rotational axis, a plurality of active drives, and a plurality of receiving tools configured to move in a mounting direction at an angle to the rotational axis. The receiving tools are arranged on the carrier so as to receive the components. Each receiving tool is permanently coupled to one of the active drives.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A multiple insertion head for mounting components onto substrates, comprising:
 a carrier configured to rotate about a rotational axis;   a plurality of active drives; and   a plurality of receiving tools configured to move in a mounting direction at an angle to the rotational axis, the receiving, tools being arranged on the carrier and arranged so as to receive the components, wherein each receiving tool is permanently coupled to one of the active drives.   
     
     
         2 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 1 , wherein each receiving tool comprises its own rotary drive to rotate a received component about a tool axis arranged at an angle with respect to a rotational axis of the multiple insertion head. 
     
     
         3 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 1 , wherein each receiving tool comprises a vacuum generator. 
     
     
         4 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 3 , wherein the vacuum generator comprises a Venturi tube and the carrier comprises a hollow shaft running coaxially to the rotational axis to which the receiving tools are fitted such that compressed air is conveyed through the hollow shaft of the carrier to the Venturi tube. 
     
     
         5 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 3 , wherein the Venturi tube is connected to a regulator to control pressure. 
     
     
         6 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 1 , further comprising a blast air vacuum device arranged in a receiving mounting position of one of the receiving tools, the vacuum device further arranged to receive a component by means of the receiving tool located in a receiving mounting position, the receiving tool being connected for an additional vacuum to be applied to the receiving tools for receiving the components while mounting the components in the receiving tool located in the receiving mounting position. 
     
     
         7 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 1 , wherein each receiving tool comprises a tool shaft embodied as a hollow shaft running coaxially to the tool axis, and a rotary sensor configured to detect an angle position of the tool shaft. 
     
     
         8 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 7 , wherein each tool shaft comprises a vacuum pipette at a distal end range. 
     
     
         9 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 7 , further comprising a rotationally symmetrical energy and data transmission device arranged between the carrier and a housing of the multiple insertion head, the transmission device arranged such that the active drives and the sensors are supplied with energy and by which data from the sensors and data to the sensors is transmitted with a first transmitter part permanently fitted to the housing of the multiple insertion head and a second transmitter part permanently fitted to the carrier to be rotateable. 
     
     
         10 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 9 , wherein the transmission device comprises at least one slip ring. 
     
     
         11 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 9 , wherein the transmission device comprises one pair of electromagnetic transmitters and one pair of capacitive transmitters arranged rotationally symmetrical around the rotational axis of the multiple insertion head, which provide for contact free transmission of both energy and data. 
     
     
         12 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 11 , wherein the capacitive transmitter comprises a plate-shaped antenna in the first transmitter part and in the second transmitter part, the first transmitter part the electromagnetic transmitter comprises a circular magnetically conductive body with a u-shaped cross section open in direction of the carrier, and a circular magnetically conductive body in the second transmitter part comprising a rectangular cross section is arranged in an opening of the first transmitter part so that a direction of a magnetic field used for transmission of energy is at a right angle to a direction of an electrical field used for transmission of data. 
     
     
         13 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 9 , further comprising at least one polished disk arranged on the housing and on the carrier such that the polished disks are arranged immediately next to each other for compressed air and a vacuum to be applied from external vacuum generators to the active drives of the lo carrier. 
     
     
         14 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 1 , wherein the carrier comprises at least one control device arranged to control the active drives. 
     
     
         15 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 14 , wherein the control unit comprises at least one digital signal processor configured to control the active drives. 
     
     
         16 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 1 , further comprising a linear motor arranged such that a receiving tool in the receiving mounting position is moveable in a mounting direction provided that the linear motor is engaged in the receiving tool. 
     
     
         17 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 16 , further comprising an engaging element provided in each receiving tool so as to engage in an engaging piece of a runner of the linear motor. 
     
     
         18 . The multiple insertion head according to  claim 16 , further comprising a retracting means interacting with the linear motor by means of which a runner of the linear motor is pretensioned by means of a spring tension against a force of gravity and in which the pretensioning is compensated for by compressed air when the insertion head is in operation.