Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Fanuc Corporation

Panasonic IP Management Co., Ltd.

Ryouji Eguchi

Takashi Tamura

Hiroki Kobayashi

Kazunori Kanai

Tatsuo Yamamura

Toshiaki Otsuki

Takao Sasaki

Daisuke Mizokami

Masahiro Hayashizaki

Kentaro Fujibayashi

Hideki Sumi

Toshihiko Nagaya

Takaaki Yokoi

Shuuichi Kubota

Hiroki Yamamoto

Nobuto Yasuhira

Minoru Kitani

Takashi Uchino

Yasuo Oku

Seiichi Matsuo

There is provided a component mounter that conveys in a board having a product area in which a pattern electrode incorporated in an electrical product is disposed and an inspection area in which an inspection electrode for inspecting electrical characteristics is disposed, and conveys out the board after repeatedly executing an operation of picking up a component supplied by a component feeder and installing the component in the product area according to an installation sequence program, the device including: target event occurrence detector for detecting occurrence of an event that requires inspection of the electrical characteristics with respect to the component supplied by the component feeder; a determiner for determining whether or not the inspection area is vacant; and inspection-required component installer for installing the component picked up from the component feeder in the inspection area as an inspection-required component, in a case where the target event occurrence detector detects the occurrence of the event and the determiner determines that the inspection area is vacant.

Component mounting device and component mounting method

A component mounting system includes a plurality of component mounters, a characteristic inspection device, and a management device. Each of the component mounters transmits inspection area component information including identification information of the corresponding component mounter, information of a conveyed-in board, and identification information of an inspection-required component installed in an inspection area, to the management device. The characteristic inspection device determines whether or not the inspection-required component installed in the inspection area is an error component, and transmits the information on the determined inspection-required component to the management device as error information. The management device specifies the component mounter in which the inspection-required component determined to be an error component is installed in the inspection area as an error component mounter, based on the transmitted error information, and stops an operation of the identified component mounter.

Component mounting system

Disclosed is a mounting substrate manufacturing system including: a component mounting system including: a component mounting device; a housing body stocker that stores a housing body; a component supply device that pulls out a carrier tape from the housing body stored in the housing body stocker and transports the carrier tape to the component mounting device; and a replacement device that includes an end effector for holding the housing body, and replaces the housing body stored in the housing body stocker, wherein the housing body stocker includes at least a pair of partition members that partition a storage space for storing the housing body, at least one of the partition members adjacent to each other includes an assist portion that assists a replacement operation of replacing the housing body, and the replacement device recognizes a position for a replacement operation by bringing the end effector or the housing body held thereby into contact with the assist portion.

Mounting substrate manufacturing system, component mounting system, and housing body transfer method

A component supply device including an accommodation body installation unit in which one or more accommodation bodies each accommodating components are installable, the component supply device sequentially operates the one or more accommodation bodies to supply each of the components to a predetermined component supply position. The component supply device comprises a supply state detector which detects a supply state of components in total accommodated in the one or more accommodation bodies installed on the accommodation body installation unit, a determination unit which determines, based on the supply state, a state of the accommodation body installation unit among (i) an installation disabled state, (ii) an installation enabled state, and (iii) an installation required state, and a notifier which notifies a worker of the state of the accommodation body installation unit determined by the determination unit.

Component supply device, component supply management system, and component supply working support method

A method of determining disposition of a component supply unit including a component reel obtained by winding a component accommodating tape accommodating a component and a tape feeder that supplies the component accommodating tape drawn out from the component reel, for determining component supply unit disposition in which the component supply unit is disposed in a holding unit that holds the component supply unit, includes acquiring component supply unit information including information on the number of the component reel and constraint condition information including information related to a layout that is capable of being selected when the component supply unit is disposed in the holding unit, and determining the component supply unit disposition, based on the constraint condition information and the information on the number of the component reel.

Method of determining disposition of component supply unit and apparatus for determining disposition of component supply unit

There is provided an inspection apparatus which inspects a board on which a mounting apparatus mounts a component, including a detecting unit (an inspection process unit and an inspection camera) that detects inspection information including a positional deviation amount of the component which is mounted on the board, a determining unit that determines whether the detected positional deviation amount falls within a predetermined first range, a transmission unit that transmits the detected positional deviation amount to the mounting apparatus; and a determination unit that determines whether to transmit the detected positional deviation amount to the mounting apparatus. In addition, in a case where it is determined that the positional deviation amount falls within the first range and it is determined that a predetermined condition is satisfied, the determination unit suspends transmission of the positional deviation amount to the mounting apparatus.

Inspection apparatus, component mounting system, and component mounting method

A method of determining disposition of a component reel, for determining component reel disposition in which the component reel obtained by winding a component accommodating tape is disposed in a holding unit, includes: acquiring component reel information including information for identifying the component reel, holding unit information including information related to a layout that is capable of being selected when the component reel is disposed in the holding unit, disposition information of the component supply device supplying the component accommodating tape drawn out from the component reel disposed in the holding unit, and constraint condition information related to the component supply device and the component accommodating tape to be supplied to the component supply device; and determining the component reel disposition in which one component reel firstly used by the component supply device among a plurality of the component reels and a next component reel used next by the component supply device among the plurality of component reels are disposed, based on the acquired component reel information, the acquired holding unit information, the acquired disposition information, and the acquired constraint condition information.

Method of determining disposition of component reel and apparatus for determining disposition of component reel

There is provided a component mounter including: a storage which stores information related to a tape feeder and information related to a carrier tape pitch-fed by the tape feeder; a detector which detects a state where the carrier tape becomes close to a component shortage; a determiner which determines whether to perform predetermined processing with respect to a termination portion of the carrier tape based on information related to the tape feeder and information related to the carrier tape which are stored in the storage, in a case where a state where the carrier tape is close to a component shortage is detected by the detector; and a notifier which notifies an operator of contents of the predetermined processing, in a case where the determiner determines that the predetermined processing is supposed to be performed with respect to the termination portion of the carrier tape.

A component supply management system includes a threshold setting portion, a remaining-amount detection portion, a determination portion, and a notification portion. The threshold setting portion sets a threshold with respect to a remaining amount capable of being supplied by the carrier tape, for each of the tape feeders, depending on types of the tape feeders. The remaining-amount detection portion detects a remaining amount of components capable of being supplied by the carrier tape, for each of the tape feeders. The determination portion determines whether the remaining amount detected by the remaining-amount detection portion is lower than the threshold set in the threshold setting portion, for each of the tape feeders. The notification portion issues a warning for recommending replenishment of a carrier tape for the tape feeder in which the determination portion determines that the remaining amount is lower than the threshold.

Component supply management system and component supply management method

A component mounting system includes an automatic loading-type tape feeder (a component supply unit) being capable of supplying up to N (N is a natural number equal to or larger than 1) carrier tapes for storing a component, and automatically transporting an inserted carrier tape, and a component mounting apparatus which mounts the component supplied from the tape feeder on a substrate, in which a replenishing operation of carrier tape with respect to the tape feeder is detected, and a case where a carrier tape with which the tape feeder is to be replenished is an (N+1)-th is notified to an operator.

Component supply method and component mounting system

A component supply device of the disclosure includes: a loader being capable of accommodating a plurality of stick cases in a stacked state, each of the plurality of stick cases being capable of accommodating a plurality of electronic components, each of the plurality of stick cases having an opening in an end portion in a longitudinal direction; a component transporting path transporting one or more electronic components supplied from the plurality of stick cases to a predetermined component supply position; and a component information storage being capable of storing component information of stick cases. A plurality of electronic components of same lot are accommodated in the plurality of stick cases, and the component information storage stores component information of a stick case read from one of the plurality of stick cases, as the component information of each of the plurality of stick cases.

Component supply device, component mounting system, and component mounting method

A component supply device of the disclosure includes: a loader being capable of accommodating a plurality of stick cases in a stacked state, each of the plurality of stick cases being capable of accommodating a plurality of electronic components, each of the plurality of stick cases having an opening in an end portion in a longitudinal direction; a component transporter moving one or more electronic components supplied from the plurality of stick cases to a predetermined component supply position; and a stick case detector detecting presence or absence of one or more stick cases in the loader.

A component supply device of the disclosure includes: a loader being capable of accommodating a plurality of stick cases in a stacked state; a component transporting path transporting one or more electronic components supplied from the plurality of stick cases to a predetermined component supply position; a component detector being disposed on the component transporting path, the component detector detecting one or more electronic components on the component transporting path; a component number measurer measuring a first number of electronic components based on the detection result of the component detector; and a determiner determining a change of stick case which supplies one or more electronic components to the component supply position based on the first number of electronic components measured by the component number measurer and a second number of electronic components unloaded from the component supply position.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Ryouji Eguchi