Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Mimura

Kazuo Okamura

Masahiro Oashi

Naoya Takao

Tatsuya Shimoji

Masayuki Kozuka

Junichi Hirai

Takashi Kakiuchi

Yoshiyuki Miyabe

Yuki Kusumi

Ikuo Minakata

Toshiya Mori

Noriaki Yoshida

Shinji Inoue

Osamu Okuda

Shigeaki Watanabe

Kanji Hata

Takeshi Takeda

Akira Kabeshita

Yoshinori Matsui

Hiroshi Uchiyama

Kiyokazu Yamanaka

Tadao Kusudo

Hiroshi Furuya

Kazutoshi Sumiya

Tomonori Nakamura

Junichi Hada

Shozo Fukuda

Akira Kameda

Yasuyuki Sonoda

Noriyuki Tani

Ryuji Hamada

Hidekazu Shimizu

Masaru Kawazoe

Shigeo Masaki

While a substrate is placed on a substrate placement stage provided in a central substrate transfer unit, the substrate is transferred to a component loading operation unit, after operation for loading a component on the substrate has been performed by the component loading operation unit, the central substrate transfer unit is moved to the side of a first component crimping operation unit to thereby transfer the substrate that remains placed on the substrate placement stage to the first component crimping operation unit, and the component is crimped to the substrate by the first component crimping operation unit.

Component mounting method

When a program transmission apparatus divides a program into a plurality of partial programs before transmission, a program reception execution apparatus executes a partial program when the partial program has already been received, and, when the execution needs to proceed to from a present partial program to a next partial program, executes the other partial program when the next partial program has been received.

Program reception/execution apparatus that can commence execution of a machine program having only received the program in part, and a program transmission apparatus that enables such execution

To provide a method for determining a component pickup order used by a component mounting apparatus which has plural mounting heads, and which causes the mounting heads to alternately pick up components from a component supplying unit and mount the components onto boards. The component pickup order determining method includes pickup order determining steps (Sand S) of determining an order according to which the plural mounting heads pick up components from the component supplying unit, so that some of the components corresponding to two or more tasks do not remain in any one of restricted areas where one of the mounting heads cannot pick up any components, when the component supplying unit includes the restricted areas and a task is referred to as at least one of components which is mounted in one of repeatedly executed operation sequences each of which includes suctioning, moving and mounting of the components executed by the mounting heads.

Method of determining pickup order of components

A mounter including at least two mounting stagesandwhere components are mounted onto boards transported from the upstream side in transportation direction of the boardand then transport the boards to the downstream side, and the mounter includes a first stopping unitfor stopping the board to place a board edge on the downstream side on a first fixed position which is in the downstream side from a first mountable area A, the first mountable area A being a mountable region where the components can be mounted on the first mounting stageon the upstream side, and a second stopping unitfor stopping the board to place a board edge on the upstream side on a second fixed position which is the upstream side from a second mountable area A, the second mountable area A being a mountable region where the components can be mounted on the second mounting stage

Board positioning method

A broadcast system BS includes a broadcast apparatusand a reception apparatus. The broadcast apparatusfirst receives and stores therein a proxy request PR including at least an identifier assigned to the reception apparatusand a command to be transmitted to the reception apparatus. Moreover, the broadcast apparatusextracts the set of the identifier of the reception apparatusand the command for the reception apparatusfrom the proxy request PR stored therein, and assembles a command packet from the set of the identifier and the command. Then, the broadcast apparatusgenerates a stream in which the assembled command packet is multiplexed, and sends it out to a broadcast channel. The reception apparatusseparates the command packet from the stream sent out to the broadcast channel, and restores the set of the identifier and the command of the reception apparatus. Then, the reception apparatusdetermines whether or not the disassembled command is destined for the present reception apparatus based on the pre-stored identifier of the present reception apparatus and the disassembled identifier of the reception apparatus. If so, the reception apparatusstores therein the command destined for the present reception apparatus. The reception apparatusexecutes the command, which has bee stored as described above.

Broadcast system

A data transmission apparatus has a multiplexing unit that cyclically multiplexes presentation information and navigation information stored in a transmission data storage unit according to control by a multiplexing control unit and a transmission unit that transmits the multiplexed stream. The reception control unit of a data reception apparatus sets filter conditions in a filter condition storage unit of a TS decoder unit in accordance with user operation indications. The presentation information and navigation information separated by the TS decoder unit are outputted via a reproduction unit to a display unit and an audio output unit.

Digital broadcasting system, digital broadcasting apparatus, and receiver apparatus for digital broadcasts

A component mounting method including carrying in a circuit board to a component mounting position and carrying out the circuit board after component-mounting operation. The component mounting operation includes sucking up the component from the component feed section and moving the component to the mounting position, and mounting the component on a specified site of the circuit board. Also, a remaining-component discarding operation is performed to discard a component which remains at the suction nozzle during a specified time period following the component-mounting operation while the component mounting operation is stopped.

Method of mounting component on circuit board

A broadcasting system which includes a broadcasting apparatus and a reception apparatus and which achieves interactiveness using a broadcast wave. The broadcasting apparatus includes a content storing unit for storing the plurality of contents, each content including a set of video data and a set of control information that indicates another content that is a link destination for a present content, and a transmitting unit for multiplexing a set of video data and a plurality of sets of the same control information included in a same content as the set of video data, and for transmitting the multiplexed sets of video data and control information. The reception apparatus includes an extracting unit for extracting a set of video data and a set of control information in a same content as the set of video data, a storing unit for storing the extracted set of control information, a reproducing unit for reproducing the extracted set of video data and outputting an image signal, an operation unit for receiving a user operation that indicates a content switching, and a control unit for controlling the extracting unit to extract another content indicated by the set of control information stored in the storing unit, in accordance with the user operation.

Digital broadcasting system, digital broadcasting apparatus, and a reception apparatus for digital broadcasts

A terminal apparatus for interactively switching pieces of presentation data in a system which repeatedly broadcasts pieces of presentation data and corresponding pieces of navigation data including a receiver for receiving the presentation data, a reproduction apparatus, and a cache storage for storing pre-received pieces of presentation data and navigation data. Navigation data is analyzed to detect pieces of link-target presentation data which are presented to an operator. When the operator selects one of the link-target presentation data stored in the cache storage, the reproduction apparatus reproduces the presentation data.

TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACHIEVING INTERACTIVE OPERATIONS BY DISPLAYING A DESIRED PIECE OF IMAGE INFORMATION AT HIGH SPEED USING CACHE MEMORIES, OUT OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF IMAGE INFORMATION SENT IN A ONE-WAY DIRECTION

In an electronic component mounting method and apparatus, an electronic component is taken out from an electronic component feed position, a posture of the component is detected, and the component is mounted on a board based on a detected result. The method includes acquiring image data with a camera of the component from the feed position, processing acquired image data with a plurality of algorithms for detecting postures of components, and detecting a posture of the component.

Mounting electronic component method and apparatus

A digital broadcast sending/receiving system includes a digital broadcast sending apparatus and a digital broadcast receiving apparatus. The digital broadcast sending apparatus multiplexes the audio data and video data of a broadcast program into the transport stream together with preselection control information which controls preselection information image facilitating program preselection, and sends the transport stream to the digital broadcast receiving apparatus. On receiving the transport stream, the digital broadcast receiving apparatus extracts the preselection control information, and reproduces a preselection screen on a display in which the preselection information image is superimposed on the video image of the broadcast program. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus receives from the viewer specification of a program to be preselected. The digital broadcast receiving apparatus stores information on the preselected program, and reproduces the preselected program in accordance with the stored information.

DIGITAL TV BROADCAST SENDING APPARATUS, DIGITAL TV BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS, AND DIGITAL TV BROADCAST SENDING / RECEIVING SYSTEM WHICH FACILITATE PRESELECTION OF TV PROGRAMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR ACHIEVING A FUNCTION OF THE DIGITAL TV BROADCAST RECEIVING APPARATUS

A component mounting apparatus includes a board transfer section for carrying in circuit boards to a component mounting position and carrying out the circuit board after component-mounting operation. A component feed section is provided for feeding, to a specified position, a component to be mounted onto the circuit board, and a component mounting section is provided for loading a suction nozzle matching the component to be mounted, sucking up the component from the component feed section and moving the component to the mounting position, and mounting the component on a specified site of the circuit board. A controller is provided for controlling operations of the individual sections is order to execute a productional operation of component-mounting onto the circuit boards. Also, a remaining-component discarding device performs an operation of discarding a component which remains at the suction nozzle during a time period following the component-mounting operation while the component mounting section is kept halted.

Component mounting apparatus

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Yoshihiro Mimura