Abstract: An apparatus for inserting electronic components into a printed circuit board including (a) chucking means for holding a pair of lead wires of an electronic component, which chuck opens and closes in a direction perpendicular to a plane including the axes of the pair of lead wires; with a distance identical to that between the lead wire inserting holes in the printed circuit board; (b) means for inserting thus held lead wires into a corresponding pair of lead wire inserting holes; and (c) means for applying a clinching treatment to the inserted lead wires protruding from the back side of the printed circuited board, whereby an electronic component is, regardless of the size of the inter-lead-wire distance, held by a chuck such that one of the lead wires is located at a certain preset base position biased to either side of the chucking surface of the chuck, and the printed circuit board and the chuck are relatively positioned when the lead wires held by the chuck are about to be inserted, and such that the com

Abstract: Method and a system for inserting electronic components. The system is composed of an electronic-component inserting machine for inserting electronic components to a printed circuit board and an electronic-component supplying machine, which comprises a plurality of cartridges, being two kinds according to the radial and axial type of the electronic components, for containing each kind of electronic components, detachably attached to a table. The method and system are characterized in being capable of supplying components free-selectively, of radial and axial type and of different lead wire gage, in a desired order, regardless of arbitrary supply arrangement of electronic components, with a single system. While the electronic components of desired type and gage are inserted, the then non-desired type and gage of electronic components are automatically suspended from being supplied in the same system.

Abstract: A method of inserting and fixing, by means of a machine, lead wires of the electronic components to a printed circuit board having a number of lead-wire-inserting holes, wherein a movable member relative to the printed circuit board is abutted to an electronic component which is already planted (or inserted) in the neighboring space of the targeted lead-wire-inserting holes for the component-to-be-planted, in order to slightly push away the already planted component for clearing or expanding the neighboring space, by means of causing a deformation to the lead wires of the already planted component. This invention includes the provision of apparatuses for realizing the above-mentioned method into practical use.