Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Fuji Machine Manufacturing Company, Limited

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Takayoshi Kawai

Kazuo Mitsui

Shinsuke Suhara

Seigo Kodama

Yusuke Tsuchiya

Yoshihiro Yasui

Mitsutaka Inagaki

Makoto Iwasaki

Nobuyuki Matsui

Hiroyuki Haneda

Sumio Kadomatsu

Hideya Kuroda

Hiroshi Sawaragi

Keisuke Nagiri

Disclosed is a method of generating image-processing component data which is used when an image of a component to be mounted by a component mounting apparatus is recognized. The method includes extracting first component shape data from CAD data of the component, measuring second component shape data from an image of the component obtained by an imaging device, and generating image-processing component data based on the first and second component shape data.

Method and device for generating image-processing component data used for image recognition of a component by component measurements

In a component mounting apparatus, when one of first and second board transfer devices is performing the unloading and loading of boards, a controller operates a component placing device to mount components on a first or second board loaded by the other board transfer device. Thus, it is possible to effectively utilize the time which is taken for the unloading and the loading of either boards, for component mountings on the other board, so that the efficiency in producing boards can be enhanced. Further, since the controller executes a control so that while component mountings are performed on the first boards of M-sheets on the first board transfer device, component mountings are performed on the second boards of N-sheets on the second board transfer device, it is realized to suppress the occurrence of an intermediate stock of either boards where the first boards of the M-sheets and the second boards of the N-sheets are required.

Component mounting apparatus

An operating apparatus including a main body, a movable member, a drive unit having a drive source, and a control unit controlling the drive source to control the position of the movable member relative to the main body. The control unit including a position control system and an acceleration control system. The position control system including a position command portion, a first feedforward compensator outputting a first operation command to the drive source, a second feedforward compensator, a positional-information acquiring device obtaining information related to the position of the movable member, and a first feedback compensator outputting a second operation command to the drive source. The acceleration control system including an acceleration-information acquiring device obtaining information related to an acceleration of the main body, a third feedforward compensator, a second feedback compensator outputting a third operation command to the drive source.

Operating apparatus

An apparatus for assisting an operator of an electric-component supply device including component feeders mounted on feeder support and each accommodating electric components, the apparatus including (a) a position indicator operable to indicate the feeder-mounting position at which the component feeder is to be mounted on the feeder support, and/or the feeder-mounting position at which the component feeder has been removed from the feeder support, and/or (b) a feeder indicator operable to indicate at least one of (i) the component feeder which has been mounted on the feeder support, (ii) the component feeder which is to be removed from the feeder support and (iii) the component feeder on which an intermediate operation is required to be performed between moments of the operations to mount and remove the component feeder on and from the feeder support.

Apparatus for assisting operator in performing manual operations in connection with component feeders

An electric-circuit fabricating system for fabricating an electric circuit, by performing a working operation on a circuit substrate, including a substrate holding device to hold the substrate, an imaging device to image a surface of the substrate on which the working operation is to be performed, an imaging control device to control the imaging device to take an image of a substrate-position fiducial mark provided on the substrate, and obtaining substrate-position information on the basis of the image, and a working device to perform the working operation on the substrate, on the basis of the substrate-position information, and wherein the imaging control device is operable to control the imaging device to take an image of a substrate ID mark provided on the substrate as held by the substrate holding device, for obtaining substrate identifying information identifying the substrate, on the basis of the image of the substrate ID mark. Also disclosed are a method and a control program for fabricating an electric circuit by performing the working operation on the substrate.

Electric-circuit fabricating system and method, and electric-circuit fabricating program

A method of fabricating an electric circuit, including first and second working processes of performing respective first and second working operations on a circuit substrate, where3in the first working process includes a first substrate-identifying step of obtaining substrate identifying information identifying the substrate on which the first working operation is to be performed, a specific-information obtaining step of recognizing a specific-information providing portion of the substrate, to obtain specific information indicating at least one specific characteristic of the substrate, a first working step of performing the first working operation on the basis of the obtained specific information, and a specific-information storing step of storing the specific information in relation to the substrate identifying information, and the second working process includes a second substrate-identifying step of obtaining the substrate identifying information identifying the substrate on which the second working operation is to be performed, and a second working step of performing the second working operation on the basis of the specific information stored in relation to the substrate identifying information. Also disclosed are electric-circuit fabricating system and control program suitable to practice the method.

Electric-circuit fabricating method and system, and electric-circuit fabricating program

Where a result of operations to mount electronic components is inspected, for example, an operating procedure of an inspecting operation is determined on the basis of mounting-condition information such as used-device information relating to used suction nozzles, feeders and other devices, and mounting-result information such as information relating to recovery actions. The operating procedure may be determined on the basis of device-usage historical information as well. For instance, the inspection operation is performed on inspecting objects selected from the mounting objects, such as mounting objects mounted with nozzles of high mounting defect ratios, mounting objects mounted with feeders of long use, etc. Additional inspecting objects are selected such that the inspection can be effected within a predetermined time. The inspecting order may be determined so as to complete the inspection in a shortest possible time.

Apparatus and method for inspecting working operations on circuit substrate, and system and method for fabricating electric circuit

A method of inspecting whether a printed board is appropriately supported by a supporting device, when a holding device holding an electric component mounts the electric component on the printed board supported by the supporting device, the method including the steps of taking, with an image taking device, an image of at least one prescribed detection portion of the printed board supported by the supporting device, and judging, based on image data representing the taken image of the detection portion, whether the printed board is appropriately supported by the supporting device.

Board-supporting inspecting method

A method of mounting an electric component on a circuit substrate, including the steps of moving one of a suction nozzle and an electric-component supplying device toward the other of the nozzle and the supplying device, so that the nozzle applies a suction to the component supplied by the supplying device and thereby receives the component, moving one of the nozzle and the substrate toward the other of the nozzle and the substrate, so that the nozzle mounts the component on the substrate, taking an image of at least a portion of the component held by the nozzle, as seen in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the nozzle, in a state in which the nozzle takes a known position in the axial direction, determining, based on image data representing the taken image, a position of a mounted surface of the electric component that is opposite to a sucked surface of the component sucked by the nozzle, and controlling, based on the determined position, a movement of the nozzle toward one or each of the supplying device and the substrate, or vice versa.

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