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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Ryouji Eguchi, Fukuoka, JP;
Hiroki Kobayashi, Fukuoka, JP;
Daisuke Mizokami, Fukuoka, JP;
Takaaki Yokoi, Fukuoka, JP;
Abstract
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.