H05K13/086

COMPONENT SUPPLY UNIT STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
20230064045 · 2023-03-02 · ·

A component supply unit storage and retrieval system includes a unit storage configured to store multiple component supply units used when multiple components are supplied to a component mounter, a storage holding base configured to hold the unit storage, a unit warehouse configured to store the component supply units more than the unit storage, and a storage and retrieval robot configured to deliver the component supply unit between the unit storage and the unit warehouse.

Component supply device, component supply management system, and component supply working support method

A component supply device including an accommodation body installation unit in which one or more accommodation bodies each accommodating components are installable, the component supply device sequentially operates the one or more accommodation bodies to supply each of the components to a predetermined component supply position. The component supply device comprises a supply state detector which detects a supply state of components in total accommodated in the one or more accommodation bodies installed on the accommodation body installation unit, a determination unit which determines, based on the supply state, a state of the accommodation body installation unit among (i) an installation disabled state, (ii) an installation enabled state, and (iii) an installation required state, and a notifier which notifies a worker of the state of the accommodation body installation unit determined by the determination unit.

Method, system and device for identifying a bin in an SMT system
11465845 · 2022-10-11 · ·

A method in an automated Surface Mount Device (SMD) warehouse configured to store bins at predetermined positions within said automated Surface Mount Device (SMD) warehouse, the method comprising receiving a bin at a port of said automated Surface Mount Device (SMD) warehouse and scanning an identity tag attached to said bin to obtain a bin ID.

POWER SUPPLY SHUTOFF DEVICE AND POWER SUPPLY SHUTOFF METHOD

A power supply shutoff device includes a movable section, a driving section, a power supply device, a power distribution section, an electric power supply circuit, and a supply control section. The movable section is configured to travel on a traveling path provided along a board production line in which multiple board work machines, which perform a predetermined board work on a board, are installed side by side. The driving section is provided in the movable section and configured to cause the movable section to travel by using supply electric power supplied from the board work machine with non-contact power feeding. The supply control section is configured to stop a supply of the electric power to the electric power supply circuit when drive electric power for driving the board work machine is shut off in at least one board work machine among the multiple board work machines.

CARRIER-TAPE PROCESSING DEVICE AND CARRIER-TAPE PROCESSING METHOD
20230114831 · 2023-04-13 ·

There are provided a carrier tape supply unit that supplies a carrier tape storing components, and a carrier tape processing unit that pulls out the carrier tape from the carrier tape supply unit, forms the carrier tape into a roll shape, and stores the carrier tape in a case. Further, the carrier tape processing unit includes a roll body creating unit that includes a shaft member holding a tip end part of the carrier tape, and creates a roll-shaped roll body by rotating the shaft member to wind the carrier tape around the shaft member, and a shaft member extracting unit that extracts the shaft member from the roll body created by the roll body creating unit.

COMPONENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND COMPONENT MANAGEMENT METHOD
20230112775 · 2023-04-13 ·

Provided are a roll body extractor that extracts roll bodies from reels and store the roll bodies in cases having radio tags, respectively, and a storage warehouse that includes a plurality of storage positions for storing the cases storing the roll bodies. Furthermore, provided are a reading unit that acquires component information, an identification information generator that generates identification information for identifying a component, a writing unit that writes the component information and the identification information in the radio tag, and a contactless reader that reads the identification information written in the radio tag. Further, the component information written in the radio tag and the identification information are stored in association with each other, and storage position information generated by specifying the storage position and the identification information read by the contactless reader are stored in association with each other.

Component-mounting system and management device
11470751 · 2022-10-11 · ·

Component-mounting system includes multiple component mounting machines disposed along a board conveyance direction; feeder storage container for storing multiples of feeders, which are capable of being attached/detached to and from component mounting machines, in each stage among multiple stages; first feeder moving robot capable of exchanging feeder between the lowest stage among multiple stages of feeder storage container and component mounting machine; and second feeder moving robot capable of exchanging feeder between the lowest stage among multiple stages of feeder storage container and the other stages.

HOLDER MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD
20220338395 · 2022-10-20 · ·

A holder management device includes a storage device to store a tray that accommodates a component holder and a work machine that performs work using the component holder, a placement section on which the tray is placed, a transfer device to transfer the component holder used in the work machine stored in the storage device in correlation with the tray to the tray placed on the placement section, and a display device to display information indicating a tray to be placed on the placement section together with information indicating a work machine stored in the storage device in correlation with the tray, and in a case where the storage device stores multiple types of trays and work machines in correlation with each other, to display information indicating the multiple types of trays together with information indicating the work machines stored in the storage device.

AUTOMATED REPLACEMENT SYSTEM FOR PRODUCTION LINE
20220338396 · 2022-10-20 · ·

An automated replacement device moves in a right-left direction along a front surface of production line including multiple machines. The automated replacement device moves to a front side of an instructed machine among the multiple machines to perform an automated replacement operation on the machine. A periphery monitoring device monitors a safety area set in a periphery of the automated replacement device to stop an operation of the automated replacement device in an emergency manner when a person or an obstacle is detected in the safety area and alarm device sounds an alarm to notify that the automated replacement device is moving, in which the periphery monitoring device is switched such that a range of the safety area during the movement of the automated replacement device is smaller than a range of the safety area during the automated replacement operation.

COMPONENT MOUNTER
20230106149 · 2023-04-06 · ·

A component mounter includes a state recognition section configured to recognize a supply state of a component in a supply area based on a feature amount including at least one of a shape and an angle of each of multiple feature portions in image data on which image processing has been executed. The state recognition section determines whether one or more candidate feature portions included in a search range belong to an identical component together with a reference feature portion based on one of feature amounts of the candidate feature portion and a positional relationship between the reference feature portion and the candidate feature portion.