Ube Industries, Inc.

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Kyocera Mita Corporation

Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

501 Ube Industries, Ltd.

Shinji Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Fujiwara

Kazuyoshi Fujii

Denichi Oda

Yasuo Matsumori

Hideho Tanaka

Kouhei Kaijiri

Masaki Ogawa

Taketo Kunihisa

Tamio Araki

Koji Sakurai

Kimio Nakayama

Kouichi Nagakura

Takahiro Yokoyama

Susumu Hanano

Tetsuro Tomoe

Kenji Oda

Masaaki Nishijima

Osamu Ishikawa

Toshihiko Nagaya

Yoichi Makino

Shuuichi Kubota

Junji Itoh

Yukihiro Itoh

Eijiro Masaki

Teruo Tanibuchi

Shigeo Ogata

Yoshinori Konda

Toshiya Fujii

Naoyuki Ishida

Kaname Motoyoshi

Koji Watanabe

Tadayoshi Nakatsuka

Shuichi Akedo

Kazuyuki Inokuma

Takayuki Sasaki

Yasunobu Tsukio

Junji Ito

Katsushi Tara

Tadahiro Kiyosumi

Nobuhiro Nakai

Mitsuru Nishitsuji

Yasuyuki Ishitani

Keijirou Itakura

Tsunehiro Takagi

Ryoichi Nagayoshi

Shinji Fukumoto

Kenichi Hidaka

Fumio Adachi

Atsushi Watanabe

Takashi Mihara

Yutaka Kinoshita

Tsuyoshi Hasuka

Masaki Koyama

Kimio Iizuka

Hideo Kurihara

Izumi Shimizu

Kenji Kuniyoshi

Kaoru Muramatsu

Toshio Fujiwara

Koichi Nagakura

Tetsuro Matsuura

Hisataka Uchimura

Yasuo Hirano

Takefumi Taga

Tatsuo Wada

Koji Ishiguchi

Junnosuke Hayashi

Kohei Kaijiri

Kimio Ilzuka

Tomoaki Mizuta

Toshihiko Takeda

Tomohide Furuya

Yoshihiko Murai

Koji Maegawa

Hideki Sakai

A lower surface of a board arranged at a working position is supported by a board supporter, and heights of a plurality of portions of the lower surface of the board are measured by a plurality of height measuring instruments attached to the board supporter. A component is installed on the board by control of a height of the installation of the component by an installation head and with respect to the board, which has the lower surface supported by the board supporter, being performed based on the height of the plurality of portions of the lower surface of the board measured by the plurality of height measuring instruments.

Component placement machine and component placement method

A component mounting device that mounts on a board a fitting component to be attached by a mechanical fitting or engagement to a to-be-attached part formed in the board. The component mounting device includes a mounting head which carries out a moving and mounting operation in which the fitting component is taken out from a component supply part by sucking and holding the fitting component, moved and mounted on the to-be-attached part, and pressed by a first load, and a pressing operation in which the fitting component is pressed by a second load larger than the first load, and a head control part which controls the mounting head to suck and hold a neighborhood of a central portion of an upper surface of the fitting component in the moving and mounting operation, and to press a press part corresponding to the to-be-attached part in the pressing operation.

Component mounting device and component mounting method

A recognition mark which is formed on a tape retaining cover which retains a carrier tape, which holds components in pockets, in relation to a sprocket with which the tape feeder is provided, and the component or the pocket which is positioned at a suction position through an opening which is formed in the tape retaining cover are recognized. Based on recognition results, tape feed positional correction for positioning the suction target component at the suction position is performed such that the component, which is adjacent on an upstream side in a tape feed direction to the component which is positioned at the suction position, is not exposed by greater than or equal to a predetermined amount from the opening.

Component mounter

A component mounting device which mounts on a board electronic components including a fitting component to be attached by a mechanical fitting or engagement to a to-be-attached part formed in the board. The component mounting device includes a moving and mounting head which holds and takes out the fitting component by a holding unit from a component supply part to move and mount the fitting component on the to-be-attached part of the board, and a pressing head which presses the fitting component that is moved and mounted on the to-be-attached part by a pressing unit to attach the fitting component to the to-be-attached part.

A range imaging apparatus includes a light illuminator that emits signal light from a light source toward a subject; a light receiver that receives light reflecting off the subject; a range image generator that calculates a distance value to the subject based on a time difference between emission and light reception, and generates a range image; a distance value distribution analyzer that calculates a distribution characteristic of the distance value calculated by the range image generator; an illumination controller that adjusts output of the light illuminator; an exposure controller that adjusts exposure by the light receiver; and a signal adjuster that adjusts the illumination controller and the exposure controller based on the distribution characteristic. The signal adjuster adjusts at least one of the illumination controller and the exposure controller for the second signal light based on the distribution characteristic obtained through emission and light reception of the first signal light.

Range imaging apparatus and range imaging method

A substrate conveyance mechanism that includes conveyance units and a working area length change part to easily change the types of substrates to allow substrates of different lengths to be selected to mount electronic components onto the substrate. The conveyance units include a working area for substrates having different length that are conveyed from a stand-by area, an area length of the working area that is variable in accordance with the length of the substrate, and a stand-by unit corresponding to a stand-by area for the substrate to be carried in to the working area. The working area length change part changes an interval between a commonly used first pulley and one of a plurality of second pulleys selectively used in accordance with the area length of the working area by changing a belt winding path of a conveyance belt wound on the pulleys in the working unit.

Substrate conveyance mechanism and component mounting method

A substrate conveyance mechanism includes conveyance units and a clamp mechanism. The conveyance units include a working unit corresponding to a working area for types of substrates having different sizes of length taken as objects, an area length of the working area being variable in accordance with the sizes of length, and a stand-by unit corresponding to a stand-by area for the substrate to be carried-in to the working area. The clamp members include commonly used first clamp members and second clamp members which are attachable and detachable and are selectively used in accordance with the sizes of length of the plurality of types of substrates in addition to the first clamp members.

Substrate conveyance mechanism and component mounting device

The slave is used in an energy management system for collecting meter-reading data from an energy meter for measuring an amount of electric energy supplied from a power source to a predetermined place through a distribution line. The slave includes: a first interface unit configured to communicate with an upper device; a second interface unit configured to communicate with an electric appliance installed in the predetermined place; and a third interface unit configured to perform first wireless communication using an electric wave with a communication terminal. One of the first interface unit and the second interface unit is a wired communication unit configured to perform power line communication using the distribution line, and the other of the first interface unit and the second interface unit is a wireless communication unit configured to perform second wireless communication using an electric wave.

Slave suitable for energy management systems and energy management system

A mounting headincludes shaft membersrespectively provided with suction nozzles, rotation driving motorsfor individually conducting rotary movements of the shaft members, and vertical movement driving motorswhich are arranged in a staggered arrangement in an opposite direction to a staggered arrangement of the shaft members, and adapted to individually conduct vertical movements of the shaft members. The rotation driving motorsdirectly drive the shaft members, and the vertical movement driving motorsmove the shaft membersup and down, together with the rotation driving motors

Mounting head and component mounting apparatus

It is an object to provide an electronic component mounting method that makes it possible to assure stable pickup operation even when a dimensional error attributable to a difference in production lot exists in electronic components or carrier tapes. During electronic component mounting adopting a tape splicing technique for splicing a carrier tapealready loaded on a tape feeder to a newly loaded carrier tapeA, when an optical sensorhas detected a joint J between the already-loaded carrier tapeand the newly-loaded carrier tapeA, a height measurement deviceperforms measurement of a component pickup height targeted for components P housed in the carrier tapeA in connection with the tape feeder for which the joint J has been detected. Component pickup height data showing a target lowering height to which pickup nozzlesare to be lowered are updated on the basis of the measurement result.

Electronic component mounting method

A broadcast module includes a receiver for selecting the signal of a specific channel from the signals of a plurality of channels under control of a controller; a demodulator connected to the output of the receiver; a detector for detecting the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal selected by the receiver; and a comparator for comparing the signal-to-noise ratio detected by the detector with a predetermined level. The broadcast module can reduce the time required to specify a viewable channel.

Broadcast reception module and broadcast device using the same

A drive unitsets a saturation amount in a read period in which charges generated in pixels are read to vertical CCDs to be lower in a combination mode than in an individual mode (see Vsub in count valuestoin FIG.). As a result, excess charges in the pixels are drained to an n-type substrate. The drive unitalso sets an accumulation period to be shorter in combination mode than in individual mode (see Vsub in each mode in FIG.).

Driving apparatus for driving an imaging device

A level conversion circuit according to the present invention comprises: a first transistor having a gate thereof grounded, for inputting the input voltage to a source thereof and outputting an output voltage from a drain thereof; a second transistor having a drain thereof to which a power supply voltage is applied, for inputting the output voltage outputted from the drain of the first transistor to a gate thereof and outputting, from a source thereof, the output voltage determined by the power supply voltage; a level shift circuit for inputting the output voltage outputted from the source of the second transistor to an input end thereof and outputting, from an output end thereof, a voltage whose level is shifted by a predetermined amount; and a resistance inserted between the output end of the level shift circuit and a ground. Thus, it becomes possible to reduce a current Ii flowing to the gate of the first transistor to a level close to zero.

Level conversion circuit with low consumption current characteristics

The present invention provides a path setting method for automatically setting network paths. The path setting method for generating paths in a network including a plurality of relay stations and a parent station which are connected with each other through a transmission line, comprises the steps of allowing each of the parent station and the plurality of relay stations to transmit basic information including its own identifier and its own path setting status, by means of a repetitive broadcast, allowing the relay station receiving the basic information to recognize the parent station or another relay station having a temporary path set thereto and transmit its own receiving-environment table including a transmission quality on the transmission line to the recognized station, allowing the another relay station receiving the receiving-environment table to forward it to the parent station through the use of the temporary path so as to notify the receiving-environment table to the parent station, and allowing the parent station receiving the forwarded receiving-environment table to set a temporary path to the relay station which has transmitted the receiving-environment table. In this manner, the parent station collects the transmission qualities on the inter-station transmission lines stepwise in order of the closest relay station to the farthest relay station to automatically set the paths.

Path setting method for network stations

A patch antenna with a directivity includes: a dielectric substrate to which at least one through hole is provided; a first ground electrode at least partially covering a back surface of the dielectric substrate; an antenna electrode partially covering an area of a front surface of the dielectric substrate, the area positionally corresponding to the first ground electrode; a second ground electrode provided within the area in a vicinity of the antenna electrode, the second ground electrode having the through hole underneath; and a conductive material provided in the through hole so as to electrically connect the first ground electrode and the second ground electrode.

Patch antenna whose directivity is shifted to a particular direction, and a module integrated with the patch antenna

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Yamanashi, Japan

Shinji Yamamoto