DEVICE FOR RECOGNIZING THE POSITION OF THE TERMINALS OF COMPONENTS

The device for recognizing the position of the terminals (A) of components (BE) whose optical unwanted structures proceed in two principal directions (X, Y) has an image transducer (BW) equipped with an objective (O); and at least one segmented ring light illumination (RB; RB1, RB2) whose rays (S; S1, S2) are incident onto the surface of the components (BE) from all sides upon exclusion of angular segments (WS) around the principal directions (X, Y). By suppressing the light directions incident perpendicular and parallel to the unwanted structures, the terminals (A) are presented with clearly higher contrast than the other structures of the components (BE). The device is particularly utilized in components vision systems of automatic equipping units. It enables a reliably recognition of the position of the spherical terminals even given flip chips, bare chips and ball grid arrays and, thus, an exact optoelectronic centering of these components.