Essemtec’s Cobra Feeders simplify and hasten setup of component reels to SMD pick-and-place machines. Regarding speed, accuracy and reliability, these feeders rank in the world’s top class. They integrate an active tape pull-back system as well as a cutter. Cobra Feeders now are available for both 8 and 12 mm tapes. Cobra Feeders provide up to 25 percent more placement rate on pick-and-place machines. Essemtec, the Swiss manufacturer of production systems for electronics, invented these feeders to fully exploit the performance of the Paraquda and Cobra placement machines. After recent introduction of 8 mm double feeders, the range is now expanded with a new feeder for 12 mm tapes. The target for the engineers has been to build a fast, accurate, compact and reliable feeder. This goal has been achieved by improving a drive system well known from the watch industry and implementing it into the Cobra tape feeding system. One feed takes less than 60 ms and the pickup position is reproducible within a few micrometers. The feeders are of such high precision, that the pick-and-place head can pick up four components simultaneously from four different feeders. Contact: Essemtec AG Mosenstrasse 20, 6287 Aesch/LU, Switzerland Phone +41 (0)41 919 60 60 Fax +41 (0)41 919 60 50 Email info@essemtec.com Internet www.essemtec.com
