METHOD AND DEVICE FOR FORMING EXTERNAL ELECTRODE OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENT

[PROBLEMS] To obtain a method for forming an external electrode, in which a tact time to apply an electrode paste a plurality of times to the end face of an electronic component is reduced. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A paste tank (4) having a vertically slidable squeegee blade is placed on a flat plate (1) having an area a plurality of times in the longitudinal direction as large as that of a holding plate. A paste film is formed on the flat plate (1) by moving it by a length corresponding to one holding plate at a time with a predetermined gap formed between the squeegee blade and the flat plate. Then, one end face of an electronic component C held on a holding plate H is immersed into the paste film, and thus an electrode paste is adhered to the one end face of the electronic component. The electrode paste is applied to the one end face of the electronic component a plurality of times by repeating the spreading step and the application step.