Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yoshiaki Awata

Kazuhide Nagao

Wataru Hidese

Seiichi Miyahara

Hiroki Kobayashi

Hideki Sumi

Kenichiro Ishimoto

Tetsushi Oohori

Kazuhiko Itose

Yasuhiro Maenishi

Chikara Takata

Shuzo Yagi

Yasuo Takanami

Takuya Tsutsumi

A tape reel supporting device includes a plurality of shaft members and a plurality of roller members. The plurality of shaft members extend to be parallel to each other in a horizontal direction. The plurality of roller members are provided to be externally fitted into each of the plurality of shaft members, and each of two inclined surfaces inclined to an axis of each shaft member abuts on an outer peripheral edge of each of a pair of disk members. The two inclined surfaces provided on each of the plurality of roller members are inclined in directions opposite to each other in a direction along an axis of each shaft member on which the roller member is provided.

Tape reel supporting device, component placement machine, and tape reel supporting method

A component mounting system includes a component mounter that mounts a component in a board, a tape feeder (component feeder) that is placed in the component mounter and supplies the component, and a mobile component supply device that holds a tape cassette (container) storing a component, automatically moves, and supplies the component in the tape cassette (container) to the tape feeder (component feeder).

Component mounting system

An electronic component mounting system and method is disclosed that can provide accurate operation instruction to a machine operator. The electronic component mounting system comprises a plurality of machines interlinked in series. A main screen, making up an operation instruction screen, is displayed on a display panel belonging to an operation target machine to be operated by the machine operator while a first sub-screen and a second sub-screen of the operation instruction screen are respectively displayed on display panels belonging to two adjacent machines placed adjacently on both sides of the operation target machine among the plurality of machines. Thus, even when a unit device has a small width such that a size restriction is imposed a display panel, accurate operation instruction, with a sufficient amount of information, can be provided by displaying the operation instruction screen on multiple display panels.

Operation instruction display technique for an electronic component mounting system

A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide a component mounting device, a component mounting system, and a component mounting method that make it possible to correctly position a substrate at a working location and mount components on the substrate even when components mounted on the substrate project outside from an end of the substrate in a direction parallel to a substrate conveyance path. When a front end portion (PbT) of a substrate (Pb) conveyed by a substrate conveyance path () is detected to have reached inspection light (L), operation of the substrate conveyance path () is immediately halted. When a front end portion (PtT) of a projecting portion H of a component (Pt) mounted on the substrate Pb is detected to have reached the inspection light (L), the substrate conveyance path () is activated in such a way that the substrate (Pb) moves in the direction of projection of the projecting portion (H) over a distance equivalent to a projection length (&#x3b1;) of the projecting portion (H) reached the inspection light (L) and is subsequently stopped, thereby positioning the substrate (Pb).

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

There is provided a screen printer capable of concurrently, efficiently subjecting a plurality of substrates, including different types of substrates, to printing operation. In a screen printerthat makes up an electronic component mounting lineand that prints electronic component bonding paste on a substrate, a substrate conveyance sectionthat conveys a substrateforwardly or backwardly in a direction of conveyance of a substrate is disposed at an intermediate position between a first screen printing sectionA and a second screen printing sectionB arranged symmetrically with respect to a center line CL. It thereby becomes possible to adopt a variety of substrate conveyance forms, as required, such as return conveyance for returning the substratefrom a downstream machine to an upstream side of the screen printerand bypass conveyance for letting the substrate sent from an upstream side pass through the screen printer, to thus be conveyed to a downstream machine. The plurality of substrates, including different types of substrates, can concurrently, efficiently undergo printing operation.

Screen printer

A screen printer capable of concurrently, efficiently subjecting a plurality of different types of substrates, to a printing operation. The screen printer makes up an electronic component mounting line and prints electronic component bonding paste on a substrate. A substrate conveyance section that conveys a substrate forwardly or backwardly in a direction of conveyance of a substrate is disposed at an intermediate position between a first screen printing section and a second screen printing section arranged symmetrically with respect to a center line CL. It thereby becomes possible to adopt a variety of substrate conveyance forms, as required, such as return conveyance for returning the substrate from a downstream machine to an upstream side of the screen printer and bypass conveyance for letting the substrate sent from an upstream side pass through the screen printer, to thus be conveyed to a downstream machine.

Provided is a component mounting condition determination method of a component mounter () that can improve a throughput of a whole production line. The method determines a mounting condition of the component mounter () that mounts components on boards, for use in a production line including the component mounter () including transportation lanes aligned parallel to each other. The method includes determining the mounting condition so that a line tact ratio among the transportation lanes approximates a predetermined ratio (Sto S).

Component mounting condition determination method

An electronic component installation apparatuswhich constructs an electronic component mounting lineand installs an electronic component on a substrate is configured to include substrate conveyance lanes L, Las two conveyance paths for feed which respectively feed the substrate carried from the upstream side to the downstream side, the conveyance paths for feed in which substrate positioning parts for positioning and holding the substrate in installation work positions are disposed between two component installation partsA,B for taking the electronic components out of component supply partsA,B and transferring and installing the electronic components to the substrate, and a substrate conveyance lane Las a return conveyance path which returns the substrate carried from the downstream side to the upstream side and is disposed in a state of being sandwiched between the substrate conveyance lanes L, L

Electronic component installation apparatus

An component mounter including a warning notification apparatus, which includes a warning generating unit which generates a warning for notifying that an action involving human resource is required, by referring to warning generation information, a warning level judging unit which judges a level of the warning indicating difficulty of an action to be taken in response to the warning by referring to warning level judgment information, and a warning notification unit which specifies an operator permitted to perform the action in response to the warning by referring to execution permission authentication information, and outputs the warning notifying the specified operator of the warning.

Component mounter, warning notification apparatus, and warning notification method

This invention provides a production condition determining method by which a production schedule of boards can be determined in a short time. The production condition determining method is for determining production conditions, under which various types of boards are to be produced. This method includes: judging whether or not all of part feeders necessary to produce the various types of boards can be stored simultaneously in part supplying units in a mounter, by comparing the number of the necessary part feeders, with the number of part feeders which can be stored in the part supplying units; and outputting a guidance for modifying the production conditions so that the various types of boards can be produced, when the judgment is made that all of the necessary part feeders cannot be stored simultaneously in the part supplying units.

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Yamanashi, Japan

Yoshiaki Awata