abstract a component mounter which includes a component feeder carriage mounting head having two or more suction nozzles for picking up a component from the feeder carriage image capturing means for taking an image of each component held by the suction nozzles and a recognizer for recognizing each component based on image data obtained by the image capturing means according to a mounting sequence of each component each component is immediately and individually mounted on a mounting target after recognition this configuration allows to eliminate wasteful standby time thus offering efficient component mounting application_number US 63103900 A description a preferred embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to drawings fig1 is a perspective view and fig2 is a sectional side view of a component mounter in the preferred embodiment of the present invention fig3 is a block diagram of a control system in a component mounter in the preferred embodiment fig4 is a timing chart for the mounting operation of the component mounter in the preferred embodiment fig5 illustrates how an image is captured in the component mounter in the preferred embodiment of the present invention the configuration of the component mounter in the preferred embodiment of the present invention is described below in fig1 substrate 12 is placed on transfer rail 11 feeder carriage 16 that supplies electronic components is installed at the side of.