Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Atsushi Tanabe

Eiichi Hachiya

Kimiaki Sano

Osamu Okuda

Junichi Hada

Masamichi Morimoto

Shozo Fukuda

Akira Noudo

Akira Kabeshita

Hiroshi Uchiyama

Naoyuki Kitamura

Naoto Mimura

Takashi Yazawa

Yoshihiro Yoshida

Yoichi Tanaka

Nobuyuki Kakita

Kazuo Mori

Takahiro Kurokawa

Yuki Minamide

Shuichi Yokota

Hirotake Nakayama

Seishiro Yanachi

An automatic component teaching device, which generates component teaching data accurately indicating a configuration of a component is provided, regardless of size of the component. The automatic component teaching device includes a cover sheet, of which surface is evenly colored in blue and which is formed to be glossy, a lighting fixture, which illuminates a peripheral area including the component with its back facing against a surface of the cover sheet, an image pickup device, which generates a colored image of the component by taking an image in color of the component illuminated by the lighting fixturewith one surface of the cover sheetin blue as its background, and in image processing unit, which identifies a configuration of the component and generates component teaching data from the colored image generated by the image pickup device

Automatic component teaching device

An image generation method for distinguishing a shape of a component includes: a color image taking step (S) of taking an image of the component in color, and a conversion step (S, S) of converting the color image taken in the color image taking step (S) into a black-and-white grayscale image in which the shape of the component is shown in black-and-white grayscale.

Method of generating image of component

It is an object of the present invention to provide a parts recognition data preparing method and a preparing device and an electronic parts mounting device and a recording medium, which are capable of preparing parts recognition data, which are set to respective electronic parts and are referred to when the electronic parts are to be recognized, precisely and quickly not to know particularly the characteristic of the recognition algorithm. In the present invention, there are provided an inputting means for inputting information of a body and electrodes of the electronic parts, a recognition algorithm selecting means for identifying a type of the electronic parts based on input information of the body and the electrodes and then selecting a recognition algorithm that is adaptive to the identified type, and a parts shape data extracting means for extracting automatically parts shape data, which are required for a recognizing process executed by the selected recognition algorithm, from the input information of the body and the electrodes, whereby parts recognition data in which recognition conditions of the electronic parts are recorded are prepared.

Part recognition data creation method and apparatus, electronic part mounting apparatus, and recorded medium

Disclosed are a component recognizing method and apparatus, and a component mounting method and apparatus, by which components with various heights held by a plurality of nozzles can be recognized continuously. The drive of a head is transmitted to nozzles, with surfaces to be recognized of components being controlled so as to be positioned in a recognizable range during respective recognizing operations of the components, and a continuous recognition is thereby made possible. The adjustment of heights of the surfaces to be recognized during the recognizing operations of the components is achieved by one drive unit and a plurality of drive transmitting units.

Component recognizing method and apparatus, and component mounting method and apparatus

A calibration jig for a component recognition device and a component recognition calibration method using the jig which can stabilize the mounting accuracy of a component to a to-be-mounted object and improve amount quality. An opening is formed at a to-be-picked up face of the calibration jig. A predetermined position of the calibration jig is recognized on the basis of the contrast between the picked-up face and the opening. The position of the calibration jig can be recognized with higher accuracy, so that a resolution of the component recognition device, etc. can be obtained with a higher degree of accuracy. Mount accuracy of the component to the object is thus stabilized and mount quality is improved.

Jig for calibrating component recognition apparatus, component recognition calibrating method using the jig, and component mounting apparatus using the jig

A component recognizing method, and an apparatus for executing the method, for applying light to leads on a mounting surface of an electronic component and executing positional detection of the leads by a height detecting section, comprising a 3-D sensor, on the basis of light reflected from the leads. The method includes limiting a region to be measured by the height detection section so that light reflected from objects behind or near the leads is excluded from the region and processing light reflected from the region, thereby removing the reflected light from objects behind or near the lead.

Component recognizing method and apparatus

An electronic component mounting device permits recognition of an electronic component for precise mounting. A recognizing device includes a line camera having a one-dimensional CCD array, a shutter camera having a shutter function, and a device for selecting either the line camera or the shutter camera depending on the size or shape of the electronic components. The electronic components are recognized by image data obtained by a selected one of the cameras while the electronic component is moving along a movement path of a mounting head towards a mounting location.

Electronic component mounting apparatus

In an electronic component installation device for manufacturing an electronic circuit substrate, wherein components are picked up from a parts supply device and placed on a circuit substrate, the height of the installing surface s of an electronic component,from a reference surface is detected with the use of a three-dimensional imaging device,, and the distance the suction nozzle,of the mounting head,is lowered is accurately determined with respect to each of electronic components that vary in thickness.

Electronic component installation method

A visual recognition apparatus of the invention can acquire an image exclusive of a background of a subject of image processing, thereby rendering the image of the subject fit for the image processing. More specifically, a mirror-surfaced collar covering a retainer has a specified configuration and a specified positional relationship with a lighting element and a camera such that a light from the lighting element toward the retainer is reflected by the mirror-surfaced collar for deviation from a light path to enter the camera.

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