TAPE FEEDER, DETACHABLE UNIT FOR MOUNTING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING DEVICE

摘要

Provided is a tape feeder and an electronic component mounting device that are configured to easily and surely identify modles of units that have undergone a specification change after factory shipment. A first memory area (21) to store a code associated with the model (model code) of tape feeder (2) at factory shipment together with a serial code indicative of the individual tape feeder (2) and a second memory area (22) to store a code associated with a specification change (specification change code) for the tape feeder (2) after the factory shipment are allocated at a memory unit (20) of a feeder control unit (8). The second memory area is unused shen shipped from the factory and additionally stores a new code at every time when a specification change is carried out in the course of time after the factory shipment.