Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masanori Yasutake

Toshihiko Tsujikawa

Kazuhiro Ikurumi

Kenji Okamoto

Osamu Nakao

Masaharu Tsujimura

Noriaki Yoshida

Hiroaki Fujiwara

Hiroyuki Inoue

Wataru Hirai

Youichi Nakamura

Kazumasa Okumura

Yasuo Izumi

Seiji Mizuoka

Shinji Morimoto

Takashi Noyama

Makoto Kawai

Satoshi Tanaka

Yoshifumi Nakao

Yoshimasa Takeda

Youichiro Ueda

A portable terminal carried by an operator of a target apparatus includes a communicating device for conducting wireless communication and a first information acquiring device for acquiring first information related to the target apparatus from the target apparatus via the communicating device. The portable terminal also includes a second information sending device for sending second information to at least one external information terminal via the communicating device based on the first information. Further, the portable terminal includes a third information acquiring device for acquiring third information from at least one external information terminal responding to the second information via the communicating device and an information outputting device for outputting an information output based on the third information.

Portable terminal and message notifying system using the same

A motion of a printed circuit board ( ) is detected by an encoder ( ) arranged aside a belt conveyer ( ), and the encoder generates a detection signal (S ) which activates a timing signal generator unit ( ) for generating an image pickup start timing signal which is fed to a time measuring unit ( ) for measuring the image storing time which corresponds to the time interval of the image pickup start signal (S ). According to the image storing time, the image signal (S ) generated by the line CCD camera ( ) is normalized by the normalizing calculation means ( ), and thereafter, the mounting condition of the printed circuit board is judged by the image recognizing section (B) with the use of the image data (D) to thereby realize a simple and convenient mechanism at a low cost and at a high precision.

System for inspecting an apparatus of a printed circuit board

A motion of a printed circuit board (1) is detected by an encoder (4) arranged aside a belt conveyer (2), and the encoder generates a detection signal (S.sub.3) which activates a timing signal generator unit (5) for generating an image pickup start timing signal which is fed to a time measuring unit (6) for measuring the image storing time which corresponds to the time interval of the image pickup start signal (S1). According to the image storing time, the image signal (S2) generated by the line CCD camera (3) is normalized by the normalizing calculation means (7), and thereafter, the mounting condition of the printed circuit board is judged by the image recognizing section (B) with the use of the image data (D) to thereby realize a simple and convenient mechanism at a low cost and at a high precision.

System for inspecting an appearance of a printed circuit board

A component mounting apparatus and method for mounting components on to-be-mounted positions of works, includes a carrying device for continuously and successively carrying the works in a working area, and a first component-mounting device for picking up one component from component supply units in a first component supply section and mounting the picked-up component on the to-be-mounted position of one of the works being continuously and successively carried in the work area.

Component mounting apparatus and method

A mounting state of a component mounted on a printed circuit board with adhesive is inspected by an apparatus which includes an image pick-up unit for picking up in colors an image of the board after the component is mounted, a color extracting part for discriminating an adhesive portion of the image based on a predetermined color distribution of the adhesive and then extracting the adhesive portion as extracted data, a cutting part for setting a window frame for a to-be-inspected portion in the image of the board relative to the extracted data so as to detect bulging of the adhesive, and cutting out data within the window frame, and a deciding part for deciding, based on the cut data, a presence/absence of the bulging of the adhesive from a size or an area of a portion in the window frame which shows a color within the color distribution of the adhesive.

Inspecting apparatus of mounted component

A parts supply device includes a mounting device for mounting a unit accommodating electronic parts on a parts mounting machine, a parts feeding device for sequentially feeding the parts held by the unit to a predetermined removing position according to an operation of the machine for removing the parts from the parts supply device, a storing device for storing data as to the number of parts held by the unit, and a calculating device for rewriting the parts number data stored in the storing device according to the operation of the machine for removing the parts from the supply device. A parts supply method includes the steps of reading an identifying mark of the unit and fetching the parts number data of the unit from a data base in a storage area, based on data as to the kind of parts, writing each piece of data obtained above in a storing unit of the supply device, and rewriting the parts number data written in the storing unit according to operation of the machine for removing the parts from the supply device. In a parts managing system, after it is decided whether or not the mark corresponds to the parts identification data, the parts number data is stored in the storing unit in the parts supply device according to decision that the mark corresponds to the identification data, a current number of parts is read in the data base in removing the unit from the supply device and stored in the data base.

Parts supply device, parts supply method, parts managing system, and

A part mounting apparatus which includes a part holding/transfer device which holds the part at a part supply position for transfer up to a predetermined part mounting position for mounting, a recognizing device for recognizing a shape of the part held by the part holding/transfer device, and an inclined mirror device for inputting into a recognizing device, an image of the shape of the part in a direction perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the recognizing device.

Part mounting apparatus with single viewing camera viewing part from

A part supply arrangement which includes a part transporting table device and a part feeding table device of an automatic part mounting unit which are respectively constituted by first and second stationary portions of a brushless DC linear motor, a carrier device on which a part unit to be transported is placed, and which is constituted by a movable portion of the brushless DC linear motor so as to be transported along a transport path, and a change-over device for changing-over connection of the stationary portions with respect to the transport path for the carrier device.

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Masanori Yasutake