This kitting device sets in a feeder a reel around which a carrier tape housing components is wound. The kitting device comprises a drum replacement unit. The drum replacement unit replaces a used drum on which the cover tape peeled off from the carrier tape is wound with a replacement drum on which the cover tape can be wound.
This component mounting system comprises: a plurality of component mounting machines that each hold component mounting tools, which are used to mount a component onto a substrate, in an automatically replaceable manner at a predetermined replacement position of the machine, the component mounting machines being arranged side by side and configuring a production line for a substrate product; a transfer device that, outside each component mounting machine or inside the machine excepting for the replacement position, transfers the component mounting tools between a storage area in which the component mounting tools are stored and the replacement position of the component mounting machine, and between the replacement positions of the plurality of component mounting machines; and a plan creation unit that creates a plan for transferring the component mounting tools by the transfer device, on the basis of a production plan indicating the type of the substrate product and a production order, and arrangement information or maintenance information, the arrangement information indicating the type and quantity of the component mounting tools that are used by each of the plurality of component mounting machines according to the type of the substrate product, and the maintenance information indicating the maintenance timing of the component mounting tools.
Disclosed is a component mounting machine that comprises a conveyor, a head, a laser device, a housing, and a light-blocking unit. The conveyor loads a substrate into a work space, and unloads the substrate from the work space. The head mounts a component on the substrate loaded into the work space. The laser device irradiates the substrate or the component mounted on the substrate with a laser. The housing includes a loading opening for loading the substrate, and an unloading opening for unloading the substrate. The housing houses the conveyor, the head, and the laser device, and surrounds the work space. The light-blocking unit includes light-blocking plates. The light-blocking plates are provided in the loading opening and the unloading opening. The light-blocking plates close the loading opening and the unloading opening during a use of the laser device to prevent leakage of the laser.
This production assistance device comprises: a training data acquisition unit that acquires, as training data, arrangement data relating to arrangement of a plurality of component mounting machines and component type data indicating component types of a plurality of components to be mounted on a board by the component mounting machines, respectively; a trained model storage unit that stores a trained model generated by performing machine learning of a replacement pattern in which rewards are obtained by replacing a pair of component types representing component types distinguished by the component type data and mounting components by the plurality of component mounting machines; a production information acquisition unit that acquires production information including at least new arrangement data and component type data and giving an instruction to produce a board by mounting new components using the component mounting machines; and an inference unit that uses the trained model and the new arrangement data and component type data included in the production information to infer and output a pair of component types to be replaced among the new component types distinguished by the component type data.
This production assistance device comprises: a first training data acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of pieces of first training data to be used for first machine learning related to component type pairs for which a reward is provided because of an improvement in a mounting process made through experiments of the mounting process conducted by swapping component type pairs with respect to components that are mounted on a substrate between a plurality of component mounting machines; a training data storage unit for classifying and storing the acquired plurality of pieces of first training data in accordance with predetermined classification criteria; an extraction unit for randomly extracting any of the first training data classified and stored in the training data storage unit; and a trained model storage unit for storing a trained model generated by performing the first machine learning using the randomly extracted first training data.
This production assistance device comprises: an imaging unit that is applied to a component mounting machine which performs mounting processing for mounting a component on a substrate, and that captures an image of the component mounted on the substrate via the mounting processing so as to acquire image data; a causal event determination unit that determines whether a causal event has occurred that could lead to a change in the operating status of the component mounting machine; and a storage unit that, if it is determined that a causal event has occurred by the causal event determination unit, stores, as image data to be stored, a prescribed number of items of image data or image data within a prescribed time period before and after the occurrence of the causal event, such image data having been acquired by the imaging unit.
This imaging position determination device determines an imaging position of an imaging target inside a component mounting machine for mounting electronic components on a substrate. The imaging position determination device comprises: a defective pixel position storage unit that stores a position of a defective pixel of an imaging device for imaging an imaging target; a target region storage unit that, when an imaging center of the imaging device coincides with a specific position in the imaging target, stores a position of a target region, which is a region in which the imaging target is imaged within an imaging range of the imaging device; an allowable range specifying unit that, when the imaging center has been moved from the specific position of the imaging target, specifies an allowable range for the position of the imaging center at which it is possible to image the entirety of the target region stored in the target region storage unit; and a determination unit that, on the basis of the position of the defective pixel stored in the defective pixel position storage unit and the position of the target region stored in the target region storage unit, determines the position of the imaging center at which the number of defective pixels in the target region is smallest, among the allowable range specified by the allowable range specifying unit.
A squeegee device provided with paste doctors that prevent lateral leakage of cream solder, the squeegee device comprising: a travel mechanism that reciprocates a traveling mount; two raising/lowering machines assembled to the traveling mount; and a pair of squeegee heads assembled to lower ends of the two raising/lowering machines and provided with squeegee blades that roll the cream solder on a mask, the squeegee heads each being equipped with paste doctors which are board members for preventing lateral leakage of the cream solder through the squeegee blade, are attached to both ends of a base bar supporting the squeegee blade, and can shift vertically in a state of being pressed down by spring members.
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This component mounter comprises: a state recognition unit that recognizes a supported state which includes the posture of a component supported on an adsorbing nozzle; and a movement control unit that moves a first component that has been determined to have poor posture by the state recognition unit to the feed region of a bulk feeder that feeds components of the same type as the first component in a predetermined feed region.
A component mounting machine according to the present disclosure comprises a head including a plurality of holders which respectively hold nozzles so as to be movable relative to each other, and sequentially performs a mounting operation for mounting a component suctioned to a substrate by a plurality of the nozzles. The component mounting machine comprises: a fluid pressure circuit connected to the plurality of holders; a sensor that detects at least one of the pressure and flow rate of a fluid flowing through the fluid pressure circuit; and a determination unit that sets a threshold value so as to be a large value to the extent to which the flow rate or the absolute value of the pressure detected by the sensor at a prescribed timing is large, and determines that the component suctioned by the nozzles is in contact with the substrate when, at the prescribed timing or after, the absolute value of the pressure detected by the sensor, the absolute value of the amount of change in the pressure, or the absolute value of the flow rate or the amount of change of the flow rate at the time of the mounting operation exceeds the threshold value.
A component supply unit according to the present disclosure can be detachably attached to the body of a component mounting device that mounts components on a substrate, the component supply unit being characterized by comprising a handle to which an operator applies a pushing or pulling force to move the component supply unit when attaching/detaching the component supply unit to/from the body of the component mounting device, and a movement mechanism that allows movement of the position of the handle so as to change the distance between the points of effort and load of the pushing or pulling force.
This component mounting machine collects and mounts a component from a component supply member capable of containing components in a container unit. The component mounting machine comprises: a distance measurement device capable of measuring the distance to an object; a control unit that performs a distance measurement process in which the distance measurement device is controlled so that the distance measurement device measures the distance to a plurality of different measurement points in the container unit; and a determination unit that performs a component presence/absence determination process in which the presence or absence of a component in the container unit is determined on the basis of a plurality of measurement values measured by the distance measurement device with respect to the plurality of measurement points.
This backup pin discrimination method is applied to a component mounting machine that is equipped with a camera capable of capturing a monochrome image of an object and a light source unit capable of irradiating the object with multiple primary color light rays, and that is for mounting a component to a substrate while supporting the substrate by backup pins from underneath. The method involves: acquiring multiple images by disposing the backup pins, which have colors different for each type, at locations where images of the backup pins can be captured by the camera, and capturing, by the camera, images of the backup pins in a state of being irradiated with the respective primary color light rays from the light source unit; acquiring, from the respective images, primary color luminance values corresponding to the respective primary color light rays used for irradiation at the time of capturing said images; and identifying colors on the basis of the acquired multiple primary color light luminance values, thereby discriminating the types of the backup pins on the basis of the identified colors.
This control device is used in a mounting system which includes a printing device for printing a viscous fluid onto a processing target, and a mounting device for extracting a component from a component supply unit, which supplies components and has a holding member for holding components, and mounting the same onto the processing target which has been printed upon. The control device is equipped with a control unit for obtaining a component image obtained by imaging a component held by the holding member of the component supply unit and a substrate image which includes a location on a printed processing target where a component is to be positioned or a location on an unprinted processing target where a component is to be positioned, and generating a reference image by positioning the component image in the mounting location in the substrate image.
This feeder management device comprises: a determination unit that determines whether to permit a component to be ejected from a component case into a bulk feeder on the basis of feeder information regarding the bulk feeder and case information regarding the component case which has been set on the bulk feeder and in which a predetermined type of component is accommodated; and a corresponding process unit that performs a predetermined corresponding process on the basis of the ejection permission determination result of the determination unit.
The present invention provides a component recognition device comprising an extraction unit and a selection unit. The extraction unit performs image processing on image data obtained by capturing a component to be mounted onto a board and extracts a plurality of candidate blobs, which are closed areas of a portion of the component and which can be used for recognition processing for the component. The selection unit sets a rectangular area circumscribing at least one of the plurality of candidate blobs extracted by the extraction unit, compares the tilt angle of the rectangular area with an ideal angle, which is the tilt angle of the component in an ideal state in which the component is positioned correctly, and makes a first selection of selecting, as the object of the recognition processing, the blob candidate in the rectangular area that is close to the ideal angle of the component.
Provided is a circuit forming device comprising a first application device and a mounting device. The first application device applies a conductive paste at a position displaced from a planned mounting position of an electrode of an electronic component toward a direction away from the electronic component. The mounting device mounts the electronic component such that the electrode comes in contact with the conductive paste applied by the first application device.
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A testing device according to the present invention comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of pieces of image data by capturing an image of a test area of at least a portion of a substrate a number of times that corresponds to the progress of prescribed substrate work on the substrate; and a determination unit that determines the state of the test area by comparing reference image data that is image data acquired at a first work machine that applies a joining member to the test area as substrate work with test image data that is image data acquired at a second work machine that mounts a component at the test area as substrate work.
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PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PRINTING DEVICE
A printing device according to the present disclosure is used in a printing system provided with a host device that transmits information regarding modeling of a three-dimensional object via a telecommunications line, and executes a three-dimensional modeling process. This printing device is provided with a discharge head that discharges a liquid for modeling a three-dimensional object and a printing control unit that, after the host device has generated cross-sectional data on a three-dimensional object, acquires intermediate data based on the cross-sectional data transferred from the host device, generates one or more printing data based on one or more predetermined processes using the acquired intermediate data, and causes the discharge head to execute a three-dimensional modeling process based on the generated printing data.
The control device of the present disclosure is used in a printing device that is equipped with a discharge head having a plurality of nozzles that discharge a liquid onto an object, wherein the control device is equipped with a control unit that detects the pitch of the nozzles and sets the printing start position of a divided printing region in accordance with the nozzle pitch detected.
This electric-power-feeding device comprises a plurality of electrical circuit parts, a shield part, an outer-side sheath part, and an inner-side sheath part. The plurality of electrical circuit parts are members provided to the radial-direction center side of an electric power cable that feeds supplied electric power supplied from a power source device to a plasma head for generating plasma, the plurality of electrical circuit parts feeding the supplied electric power. The shield part is an electroconductive member provided farther to the radial-direction outer side of the electric power cable than the plurality of electrical circuit parts so as to cover the plurality of electrical circuit parts, the shield part electrically shielding the plurality of electrical circuit parts from an external environment. The outer-side sheath part is an insulating member provided farther to the radial-direction outer side of the electric power cable than the shield part so as to cover the shield part, the outer-side sheath part physically protecting the shield part from the external environment. The inner-side sheath part is an insulating member provided farther to the radial-direction inner side of the electric power cable than the shield part, the inner-side sheath part providing support so as to sandwich the shield part in concert with the outer-side sheath part.
This device for forming a resin laminate discharges a curable resin so as to surround the side surfaces of a component installed inside a cavity which is formed in a base and so as to cover an upper surface of the base, thus forming a resin laminate that extends higher than an upper surface of the component while leaving the upper surface of the component exposed.
Provided is a resin laminate formation device comprising: a discharge device that discharges a cured resin in the form of a film so as to cover the upper surface of a component mounted in the interior of a cavity formed in a base, the component having a height dimension greater than the depth dimension of the cavity, and so as to cover the upper surface of the base; and a flattening device that flattens the cured resin discharged by the discharge device to a set height that is set to a position higher than the upper surface of the component in a state of being mounted in the interior of the cavity. The discharging of the cured resin by the discharge device and the flattening by the flattening device are executed repeatedly, whereby the film-form cured resin is layered and a resin laminate for which the upper-surface height is the set height is formed on the base.
This mobile body comprises a plurality of vehicle wheels attached to a vehicle body, wherein the advancement direction of the vehicle body can be changed by driving the plurality of vehicle wheels without changing the orientations of the vehicle wheels. The mobile body comprises: a determination unit which determines whether an idle rotation occurs in at least one vehicle wheel among the plurality of vehicle wheels; and an idle rotation resolution control unit which, when the determination unit has determined that an idle rotation has occurred in a vehicle wheel, executes idle rotation resolution control for controlling the driving of the plurality of vehicle wheels so that the mobile body changes the advancement direction of the vehicle body and travels.
This remote operation notification device comprises a determination unit and a notification unit. The determination unit determines whether there is remote operation by a worker of a substrate-related work machine which performs given substrate-related work on substrates. If it is determined by the determination unit that there is remote operation, the notification unit notifies, among a specified worker who is the worker remotely operating the substrate-related work machine and a general worker who is a worker other than the specified worker, at least the general worker of the remote operation of the substrate-related work machine by the specified worker.
The present invention provides a work machine guidance device comprising a determination unit and a guidance unit. The determination unit determines whether or not a board work machine that performs predetermined board work on a board is an applicable work machine that can be operated remotely by a worker. When the determination unit determines that the board work machine is the applicable work machine, the guidance unit guides the worker to the applicable work machine.
This inspection device comprises: a captured image acquisition unit that acquires image data by causing an image capture device, which is provided so as to be movable in a machine, to move and capture an image of at least one of a substrate and a component mounted on the substrate as an object to be inspected; and a route setting unit that, when the object to be inspected is large relative to an image capture range of the image capture device, divides a feature region including a feature portion of the object to be inspected into a plurality of sections and sets a movement path that is for the image capture device and that is for capturing an image for each of the plurality of sections.
According to the present invention, a disposition assistance device for a backup member is configured to be able to automatically exchange tools among a plurality of workstations provided inside a facility, is applicable to a paired-substrate work machine comprising a plurality of work heads that perform predetermined paired-substrate work using the tools on a substrate supported by a backup member, and comprises: an acquiring unit that acquires accommodation positions where pickers that are able to hold the backup member are accommodated in the plurality of workstations; and a setting unit that sets work heads that use the pickers to perform disposition work of the backup member in accordance with the accommodation positions of the pickers.
This image processing device according to the present invention comprises: an image acquiring unit that acquires an image in which an electronic component having at least three feature parts is captured; a calculating unit that, on the basis of the image, calculates an actual pitch that is the actual pitch between two feature parts for all the combinations of two feature parts selected from the plurality of feature parts; a pitch acquiring unit that acquires an ideal pitch that is an ideal pitch between two feature parts for all the combinations of the two feature parts selected from the plurality of feature parts; and a determining unit that, for all of the combinations of the two feature parts, compares the actual pitch and the corresponding ideal pitch and determines whether the actual pitch is a suitable pitch.
This image coding device is configured to code an image using a differential pulse code modulation that codes a differential value between gradation data for a pixel and gradation data for a preceding pixel. When a plurality of consecutive differential values are a set of predefined specific values, the image coding device codes the plurality of differential values into data of a predetermined number of bits.
According to the present invention, a component mounter comprises: a measuring part that measures the height of a support surface that supports a component in a supply region in which a bulk feeder supplies a component in a manner that enables picking; and an adjusting part that calculates, on the basis of the measured height of the support surface, an adjustment amount of a target height of a holding member that is able to hold the component during a picking operation for lowering the holding member and picking the component from the supply region.
Disclosed is a substrate-working machine that comprises a substrate transport unit, a cleanliness monitoring sensor, a mobile unit, and a control unit. The substrate transport unit transports a substrate to a working position inside a device and, after work is complete, transports the substrate away from the working position. The cleanliness monitoring sensor detects the cleanliness of the inside of the device. The mobile unit performs prescribed work on the substrate as positioned at the working position. The control unit controls the operation of the mobile unit so as to alter the operating speed of the mobile unit in accordance with detection results from the cleanliness monitoring sensor.
This testing device includes: a setting unit that sets prescribed imaging conditions on the basis of the shape of a structure forming the interior of a tubular member in which fluid can circulate, and the type of adherence matter that can adhere to the structure; an acquisition unit that acquires, in accordance with the preset imaging conditions, images of the tip of the tubular member from a direction that is along the fluid circulation direction; and a determination unit that determines whether the tubular member is acceptable on the basis of the acquired images.
This plasma generation device comprises: one electrode; a case that comprises a conductor and that has a cylindrical inner space; a nozzle that comprises a conductor, that is installed so as to be able to rotate around the central axis of the inner space of the nozzle case, and that ejects a generated plasma gas; a fluid supply device that supplies a fluid into the internal space; a rotation mechanism that comprises an insulator and that rotates the nozzle by using the fluid supplied by the fluid supply device; a conduction path that is formed between the nozzle case and the nozzle; and a power source that applies voltage to the electrode. The nozzle case is grounded, and the plasma gas is generated due to a potential difference between the electrode to which the voltage has been applied by the power source, and the nozzle which is grounded by the conduction path.
This transport robot management device comprises an acquiring unit and an identifying unit. The acquiring unit acquires periphery information about an abnormal robot that is abnormally stopped and is at least one among a plurality of transport robots capable of autonomous travel, by using a normal robot that is at least one among the plurality of transport robots and is operating normally. The identifying unit identifies the reason why the abnormal robot is abnormally stopped, on the basis of the periphery information about the abnormal robot acquired by the acquiring unit.
An image processing apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises: an image acquisition unit that acquires an image capturing an electronic component with a plurality of characteristic portions; an information acquisition unit that acquires information specifying, among the plurality of characteristic portions, a characteristic portion to be used for position recognition processing for recognizing the position of the electronic component relative to a reference position in the image; an image processing unit that executes position recognition processing by using the characteristic portion specified in the information acquired from the information acquisition unit; and an output unit that outputs information based on the result of the position recognition processing.
This foreign matter detection device comprises an acquisition unit and a determination unit. When a substrate work machine performs prescribed work on a substrate, the acquisition unit captures images of an inspection region of at least a portion of the substrate as the work on the substrate progresses, and acquires multiple pieces of image data resulting from capturing of images of the same inspection region. The determination unit determines the presence/absence of foreign matter adhered to the inspection region, on the basis of inspection region characteristic-amount differences, obtained by image processing: reference image data, which is a one piece of image data of said multiple pieces of image data; and inspection image data, which is image data to be inspected and acquired after the reference image data. Furthermore, if the work on the substrate stops after the acquisition of the reference image data but before the acquisition of the inspection image data, the acquisition unit acquires an image of the inspection region at the point in time when the work on the substrate stopped, to obtain image data, which is first image data.
This tape guide attachment/detachment device comprises: a clamping mechanism; and an attachment/detachment mechanism. The clamping mechanism detachably fixes a tape guide to a feeder body, the tape guide pressing down on the top surface of a carrier tape when the carrier tape that accommodates components is transported along a transport path formed in the feeder body. The attachment/detachment mechanism operates the clamping mechanism to attach and detach the tape guide.
This coolant monitoring system for monitoring a flow rate of coolant for each nozzle comprises: a turret device having formed therein a coolant flow passage for supplying the coolant to the nozzles, which are provided for each of a plurality of tools attached to a tool post in order to spray the coolant onto the tools; a flow rate sensor provided in a coolant supply flow passage for supplying the coolant in a coolant tank to the coolant flow passage by means of a coolant pump; a relay device for transmitting a measured value measured by the flow rate sensor; and a control device for comparing the measured value transmitted from the relay device and a threshold for a corresponding nozzle, among thresholds set for each of the plurality of nozzles, to perform a determination relating to the coolant flow rate.
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This image output device comprises: an acquisition unit that acquires a raw image and, as information associated with the raw image, associated information which includes the results of image processing performed on the raw image; a generation unit that generates, in advance, a thumbnail image of a raw image selected on the basis of the associated information and from among raw images acquired by the acquisition unit, and that generates, in response to a request, a thumbnail image of a raw image not generated in advance; and an output unit that, in response to a request, outputs a thumbnail image generated by the generation unit.
This control device is used in a delivery system for delivering an article which is a transfer target, the delivery system including an automatic transfer device which transfers the article within a specified space and which comprises a detection unit for detecting the state of the surroundings and/or the vehicle body. The control device comprises a control unit which acquires results of detection performed by the detection unit, and which acquires, on the basis of the acquired detection results, road surface information including the condition of a road surface on which the automatic transfer device is traveling.
The present invention reduces the frequency of maintenance for an electrical characteristics acquiring device. In an electrical characteristics acquiring device that is mounted to a mounting machine according to the present disclosure, while the electrical characteristics of a component are acquired by sandwiching the component mounted on a component mounting part between a pair of facing surfaces, for example, even components of the same size are mounted in different portions of the component mounting section. As a result, compared to when components of the same size are mounted in the same portion of the component mounting section, uneven wear of the pair of facing surfaces can be suppressed and the frequency of maintenance can be reduced.
This reel sorting apparatus comprises: a reel information acquisition unit for acquiring reel information related to a reel around which a carrier tape that accommodates a plurality of components is wound; a determination unit for executing a determination process for determining whether to supply the reel to a reel loading device for carrying out loading work of the reel to a feeder on the basis of the acquired reel information; and a sorting unit for sorting the reel on the basis of the result of the determination process.
This reel work device comprises a feeder holding part for holding a feeder loaded with a reel, a detachment device for detaching a reel from the feeder held by the feeder holding part, and a discharge part for discharging the detached reel outside a machine.
The present inventio discloses an interposer member that is provided on a base substrate on which electric components are mounted. The interposer member comprises a surrounding member that surrounds the periphery of a conductive member that electrically connects an upper side and a lower side of the interposer member, and a frame member that is erected along outer edges of the base substrate.
This component mounter comprises a leak determination unit that, on the basis of a retention condition, determines whether an air leak is produced from a suction nozzle while a component is in contact with the suction nozzle. When the leak determination unit has determined that an air leak is produced, and there is a neighboring component that has already been mounted within a prescribed range from a target location, a mounting control unit reduces, from a prescribed pressure, the pressure of positive pressure air that is supplied to the suction nozzle.
This substrate conveyance device comprises: a driving unit that conveys a substrate along a conveyance path; a substrate sensor that is provided at a prescribed position on the conveyance path and that detects the presence/absence of a substrate at the prescribed position; a substrate confirmation unit that is provided so as to be horizontally movable, and that is capable of confirming the presence/absence of a substrate in the conveyance path; and a control unit that, when a substrate conveyance amount of the driving unit does not correspond with a detection result of the substrate sensor, controls the driving unit to stop substrate conveyance, and controls the substrate confirmation unit to confirm the presence/absence of a substrate in the conveyance path, wherein the control unit has a determination unit that determines the presence/absence of a false detection of the substrate sensor on the basis of the detection result of the substrate sensor and the confirmation result of the substrate confirmation unit.
This transport system comprises an automatic transport device and a management device. The management device is provided with: a management storage unit that stores a correspondence relationship in which an identification image is associated with each of a plurality of sets of route operation information that each define the contents of a route along which the automatic transport device travels and an operation performed by the automatic transport device; and a management control unit that, when giving route and operation instructions to the automatic transport device, determines the identification image associated with route operation information, the content of which matches the instructions, on the basis of the correspondence relationship stored in the management storage unit, and displays the determined identification image on a prescribed display device. The automatic transport device is provided with: a transport storage unit that stores the correspondence relationship; a recognition unit that can recognize images displayed on the display device; and a transport control unit that, when the recognition unit recognizes an identification image, determines the route operation information associated with the recognized identification image on the basis of the correspondence relationship stored in the transport storage unit, and controls the automatic transport device on the basis of the content of the determined route operation information.
This component presence/absence determination method includes: extracting a plurality of types of feature quantities from each of a component present image and a component absent image for every feeder or every component type; selecting, on the basis of the extracted plurality of types of feature quantities, one or more types of feature quantities effective for determination, from among the plurality of types of feature quantities; and storing, in advance, the selected types of feature quantities as effective feature quantities. The method also includes, to determine whether a target component is present in a cavity of a target feeder, which is a determination target among the plurality of feeders: acquiring an image of a tape of the target feeder; extracting, from the acquired image, an effective feature quantity of a type selected for the target feeder or a component type of the target component; and determining whether the target component is present in the cavity of the target feeder on the basis of the extracted effective feature quantity and the effective feature quantities corresponding respectively to the component present image and the component absent image stored in advance.
This plasma head is equipped with: a cylindrical main body through which a processing gas to be made into plasma travels; a pair of electrodes which are stored in the main body, and form a plasma gas by discharging electricity into some of the processing gas; and a rectifier member which has a plurality of rectifier plates which convert the flow of the processing gas, which is introduced into the interior of the main body and supplied to the pair of electrodes, into a helical flow.
A conveyance device according to the present invention is for conveying a carriage having, at the bottom thereof, a freely rotatable caster. This device comprises: a body connectable to the carriage; a drive unit that is capable of changing the direction of movement and moving the body; sensor units that are installed on the body and capable of detecting the orientation of the caster; and a setting unit that sets, on the basis of the orientation of the caster which has been detected by the sensor units, the direction of movement to a direction in which a drive load of the drive unit becomes low.
A substrate working apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises a work unit that performs substrate work with respect to a substrate, a substrate-holding unit that holds the substrate, a height-measuring unit that measures the substrate height of the substrate, and a control unit. The control unit performs a substrate-height-measuring process of controlling the height-measuring unit so as to measure the substrate height at a predetermined plurality of measuring points on the substrate that is held by the substrate-holding unit, and, when the substrate for which the substrate-height-measuring process has been performed has been held by the substrate-holding unit again, performs a representative-points-measuring process of controlling the height-measuring unit so as to measure the substrate height at representative points, which are part of the plurality of measuring points. When a difference between the measurement results of the representative-points-measuring process and the measurement results of the substrate-height-measuring process at the same measuring points as the representative points is within an acceptable range, the control unit omits measuring of the substrate height at the measuring points other than the representative points among the predetermined plurality of measuring points.
This transport device according to the present disclosure transports a truck loaded with an object to be transported, the transport device comprising: a drive unit that connects to the truck and is capable of traveling; a reading unit that is provided to the truck or to the object to be transported and reads identification information for identifying category information about the object to be transported; and a control unit that acquires the category information about the object to be transported from the identification information read by the reading unit, acquires a transport destination of the object to be transported on the basis of the acquired category information, and controls the drive unit such that the truck is transported to the acquired transport destination.
This inspection image display system comprises: an information acquisition unit that acquires mounting information including positional information that represents the relative positional relationship between a component mounting tool that performs mounting operation to mount a component at a predetermined mounting position set on a substrate and the component held by the component mounting tool, the positional information being used to correct the position of the component mounting tool when performing the mounting operation; an image acquisition unit that acquires an inspection image by capturing an image of the substrate on which the component is mounted; and an image display unit that diagrammatizes the mounting information and overlays the result on the inspection image to display same.
This component supply device comprises: a stage on which a plurality of types of components are scattered; a scattering device for scattering the components on the stage; an imaging device for capturing an image of the components scattered on the stage each time the components are scattered on the stage by the scattering device; and a determination device for determining whether or not all of the plurality of types of components scattered on the stage satisfy an adequacy requirement on the basis of imaging data resulting from the imaging device imaging the components scattered on the stage.
This autonomous transport vehicle comprises: a vehicle body that can be set in an entered state in which at least a part of the vehicle body enters underneath a transportation object having wheels, and has a driving wheel and can travel while towing the transportation object in the entered state; and a center-approaching mechanism that is provided to the vehicle body, that engages, in a horizontal first direction, with the transportation object in the entered state of the vehicle body, and that moves the vehicle body relatively to the transportation object such that the center of the transportation object in the first direction approaches the center of the vehicle body in the first direction.
A mounting machine of the present disclosure is capable of suctioning a target object and mounting same. The mounting machine comprises: a nozzle that is formed in a cylindrical shape and applies suction to the target object at a lower end section; a head that retains the nozzle; a head movement device that moves the head horizontally; a camera that can capture an image of the lower end section of the nozzle or the target object suctioned to the nozzle; and a control device that controls the camera so that an image of the lower end section of the nozzle is captured, recognizes an inner-diameter portion of the nozzle in the lower end section on the basis of the image to derive an inner-diameter center of the nozzle in advance, and, when a suction action is performed on the target object, controls the head movement device to suction the target object to the nozzle so that the inner-diameter center of the nozzle matches the suction position of the target object.
This robot device comprises: a driving unit that drives a multi-joint arm unit; a detection unit that detects a position or a velocity of a predetermined portion of the arm unit; a control unit that executes assisting control of controlling the driving unit so as to assist a manual operation of the arm unit during direct teaching in which an operator manually operates the arm unit and a pose of the arm unit is recorded; a limiting unit; and a changing unit. The limiting unit executes limiting control of limiting execution of the assisting control when the position or the velocity of the predetermined portion of the arm unit detected by the detection unit exceeds a threshold value. Then the control unit changes the threshold value on the basis of the pose of the arm unit.
This inspection device inspects the presence or absence of an object through image processing, and comprises: a setting unit that creates or acquires, by means of machine learning using an image to which the presence or absence of an object is mapped, a frequency distribution obtained by aggregating, by object presence/absence, the frequencies of feature values of pixels in the image, and that sets a portion of classes in the frequency distribution as a determination target class; and a determination unit that acquires a target image, and determines the presence or absence of the object in the target image by comparing the frequencies of feature values belonging to the determination target class among the feature values of the pixels in the target image with the frequencies by object presence/absence that belong to the determination target class in the frequency distribution.
Provided is an action record display device comprising a display control unit which displays a time axis in the form of an arc or circle on a display screen, acquires each icon corresponding to each of a plurality of action events extracted from an action record, the icon being acquired from a plurality of types of icon each associated with each of a plurality of types of action event defined in advance, and controls each acquired icon to be displayed at a position on the arc or the circle corresponding to a time zone in which the corresponding action event occurred.
G06F 3/04817 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance using icons
G06F 3/0488 - Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI] using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
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ARTICLE CONVEYANCE SYSTEM AND ARTICLE CONVEYANCE METHOD
This article conveyance system comprises a station, a cart, a detection unit, and a control unit. The station can deliver an article to be used in a substrate work machine that subjects a substrate to prescribed work to be done on the substrate. The cart can automatically travel to and from the station to carry in or carry out an article. The detection unit is provided to at least one of the station and the cart and can detect the relative position between the station and the cart. The control unit allows delivery of an article between the station and the cart if the detection unit detects that the relative position is within a first range in which delivery of the article between the station and the cart is possible. The control unit restricts delivery of the article between the station and the cart if the detection unit does not detect that the relative position is within the first range.
This bulk feeder comprises, in a supply region, a plurality of cavities for accommodating components. The plurality of cavities disposed along a first direction in the supply region constitute a cavity row. A plurality of cavity rows are disposed along a second direction which crosses the first direction. At least one cavity row is disposed so as to be shifted, in the first direction and by a prescribed amount, with respect to another cavity row adjacent to said one cavity row.
B65G 47/14 - Devices for feeding articles or materials to conveyors for feeding articles from disorderly-arranged article piles or from loose assemblages of articles arranging or orientating the articles by mechanical or pneumatic means during feeding
This substrate production machine comprises: a first control device that executes first control related to production of a substrate; a second control device that is communicably connected to the first control device and that executes second control different from the first control; a first breaker that turns on/off power to the first control device; and a second breaker that turns on/off power to the second control device.
The objective of the present invention is to provide a machine tool in which rotating tools having differently shaped ridge portions can be attached to a tool post. This machine tool comprises a drive source, a drive shaft that rotates on the basis of the drive of the drive source, and a tool post to which a plurality of rotating tools can be attached. The drive shaft is provided with a clutch portion for transmitting a rotational driving force from the drive shaft to a transmission shaft of the rotating tool. Each of a plurality of rotating tools is provided with a ridge portion on the transmission shaft, some of the ridge portions having mutually different shapes. The clutch portion is provided with recessed groove portions formed to match the shapes of each of the differently shaped ridge portions.
This component mounting machine comprises: a component mounting tool for picking up a component by supplying negative-pressure air and attaching the component onto a board; an attachment head which has a main holding mechanism for holding the component mounting tool in an attachable/detachable manner with a predetermined holding force, and is capable of moving in the horizontal direction; and an auxiliary holding mechanism which operates by means of the supply of the negative pressure air and generates an auxiliary holding force that is added to the holding force.
This tape releasing device comprises a reel supporting unit and a releasing unit. The reel supporting unit supports a reel where an outer circumferential portion of a spiral tape, which is obtained by spirally winding a carrier tape in which a cover tape for closing accommodation parts having accommodating therein electronic components is pasted onto a base tape equipped with the accommodation parts, and the leading end of the cover tape are fixed by a fixing tape. The releasing unit releases the fixing tape from the reel supported by the reel supporting unit.
This work machine executes a mounting step in which a component is mounted on a substrate, wherein the work machine confirms whether the substrate is present in a step prior to the mounting step and, if it is confirmed that the substrate is present in the prior step, the work machine begins work to pick up the component for mounting on the substrate of the prior step. The present invention is a method for mounting, by a work head provided to a work machine, a component on a substrate retained at a prescribed position, wherein, to mount the component on the substrate retained at the prescribed position in the work machine, the following steps are executed: a confirmation step in which it is confirmed whether the substrate is present in a substrate conveyance device, upstream of the prescribed position, that conveys the substrate; a pickup step in which, if it has been confirmed that the substrate is present in the confirmation step, before the substrate is discharged by the substrate conveyance device, the work head begins picking up the component to be mounted on the substrate confirmed in the confirmation process; and a mounting step which is a step subsequent to the pickup step and in which the work head mounts the picked-up component on the substrate confirmed to be present in the confirmation step.
Disclosed is a component storage container that stores components to be mounted on a substrate by means of a component mounting machine. The component mounting machine is provided with a casing, a component storage part, and a moisture-proof layer. The casing is provided with a bottom wall, a ceiling wall, and a side wall that closes a first opening formed between an outer peripheral part of the bottom wall and an outer peripheral part of the ceiling wall. The component storage part is disposed inside the casing and stores components. The moisture-proof layer is provided between the side wall and the component storage part, and is disposed to surround an outer periphery of the component storage part.
This feeder comprises: a tape guide; a first magnet; and a second magnet. The tape guide is for guiding conveyance of a carrier tape that accommodates components. The first magnet is provided below the carrier tape guided by the tape guide, and has a first magnetic flux density that can apply a first attraction force to a component in an upstream-side region provided on the upstream side in the conveying direction of the carrier tape as compared to a picking region at which a component is picked up from the carrier tape. The second magnet is provided adjacently to the first magnet in the conveying direction of the carrier tape, and has a second magnetic flux density that can apply, to the component in the picking region, a second attraction force which is weaker than the first attraction force. The first and second magnetic flux densities are set in a prescribed relationship in which the accommodation orientation of the component in the upstream-side region is stabilized and picking up of the component in the picking region is not hindered.
Provided is a transport device capable of transporting or towing a cart having a plurality of wheels on the bottom thereof, the transport device comprising: a mobile body; an engagement member provided on the body and capable of engaging with a predetermined location on the cart; a camera capable of capturing an image of the cart; a height detection unit that processes the image from the camera and detects the height of the predetermined location on the cart; and a control unit that controls the engagement member so that the engagement member engages with the predetermined location on the cart on the basis of the height of the predetermined location on the cart detected by the height detection unit.
This printing system comprises: a printing device; an accommodating rack which is provided with a plurality of shelf portions each capable of accommodating a support frame for supporting a replacement member, the support frames being capable of moving between the printing device and the shelf portions while facing the printing device, and which has an opening on a side surface parallel to a movement direction of the support frames; a delivery device including a feeding unit capable of feeding the support frames in and out in the movement direction, while abutting the support frame in the accommodating rack, and a movement unit for moving the feeding unit into and out of the accommodating rack through the opening; and a replacement control unit which includes a position sensor for detecting a state of penetration of the feeding unit with respect to the accommodating rack, and which can detect that the support frame is not on the shelf portion on the basis of a detection signal from the position sensor.
This component mounting machine is provided with a gripper for gripping an electronic component with a pair of gripping claws and releases the electronic component gripped by the gripper by moving the gripper in a direction intersecting with a vertical direction after having mounted the electronic component gripped by the gripper onto a substrate. This method is for mounting a leaded component onto a substrate by executing: an insertion process in which when mounting a leaded component, the gripper not equipped with a pusher for pushing a component body of a leaded component grips the component body with the pair of gripping claws and inserts leads of the leaded component into insertion holes formed in the substrate; and a release process in which after the insertion process is executed, the pair of gripping claws are separated from the component body and the gripper is moved in the direction intersecting with the vertical direction, whereby the leaded component is released from the gripper.
An automated workpiece conveyor that conveys a shaft workpiece in a stable orientation, wherein the automated workpiece conveyor has: a robot hand provided with a chuck mechanism in which a first chuck claw and a second chuck claw that sandwich the shaft workpiece at two locations are respectively provided to a pair of chuck blocks that are capable of moving in approaching and distancing directions, the first chuck claw being secured to the chuck block, and the second chuck claw being slidably assembled on the chuck block in a state of being biased by a spring member in the approaching direction; and a drive mechanism that supports the robot hand and causes the same to move to a prescribed position.
B23Q 7/04 - Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting by means of grippers
This manufacturing method is for forming a plurality of terminal-equipped resin layers in which terminal parts to be connected to electric components are provided to a surface of a resin layer, by repeatedly executing resin layer formation steps and wiring forming steps. A mark pedestal is formed by laminating resin layers in a mark forming area in a stage, before a resin layer forming step for forming the resin layers of the terminal-equipped resin layers among a plurality of resin layer forming steps. In the wiring forming steps for forming wiring for the terminal-equipped resin layers, a reference mark is formed by discharging a first metallic liquid on the mark pedestal. When the plurality of terminal-equipped resin layers are formed at positions of different heights, mark pedestals in accordance with the heights of the plurality of terminal-equipped resin layers are formed in the mark forming area, and a reference mark is formed on each of the mark pedestals.
This component mounting system comprises: a manufacturing unit that mounts a component on a board to manufacture a circuit board; a storage unit that stores first process information indicating a process for manufacturing N circuit boards from N boards; and a control unit that causes the manufacturing unit to execute the process indicated by the first process information if the first process information stored in the storage unit is designated. The manufacturing unit comprises a conveyer that conveys a board, and a camera that images the board on the conveyer. When, after the first process information stored in the storage unit is designated, an M-th circuit board among the N circuit boards to be manufactured by the process indicated by the first process information is manufactured by the manufacturing unit, the control unit: causes the camera to image the M-th board under a first imaging condition; tries predetermined processing with respect to a first image indicating the M-th board that has been imaged under the first imaging condition; if the predetermined processing with respect to the first image fails, changes the imaging condition of the camera from the first imaging condition to a second imaging condition different from the first imaging condition; causes the camera to image the M-th board under the second imaging condition; and then retries the predetermined processing with respect to a second image indicating the M-th board that has been imaged under the second imaging condition.
This component confirmation device comprises a kitting device and a confirmation unit. The kitting device sets, in a feeder, a reel around which a carrier tape housing components is wound. The confirmation unit confirms the quality of the components in the kitting device on the basis of a component feature of the components housed in the carrier tape of the reel set in the feeder.
A work machine comprising a work machine body, a linking device detachably linked to one side surface of the work machine body, a first display device which is provided movably between a display position positioned at the one side surface of the work machine body to which the linking device is detachably linked, and a retracted position retracted from the one side surface, and a second display device provided on the linking device, wherein the linking device is linked to the work machine body after the first display device is moved from the display position to the retracted position.
This feeder management device comprises: a detection unit that detects the operation of an operation unit which is operated when a feeder is removed from a component mounting machine; an electricity feed control unit that, if the operation of the operation unit was detected, notifies a control device of the component mounting machine and transmits a power shut-off signal; and a NAND circuit that shuts-off power from the component mounting machine to the feeder, if the operation amount of the operation unit is at least a prescribed amount and if the shut-off signal was input.
The present invention discloses a design method for a plurality of resin layers of a circuit board that is formed by stacking a plurality of resin layers and forming a wiring line on the upper surface of at least one resin layer among the plurality of resin layers. This design method designs the plurality of resin layers by producing image data that show at least the plurality of resin layers in positions where the wiring line is supported and covered.
H05K 3/00 - Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits
H05K 3/10 - Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which conductive material is applied to the insulating support in such a manner as to form the desired conductive pattern
An application information generation method according to the present disclosure generates application information about the application of an application liquid to be applied to a scheduled arrangement position of an electronic component on a substrate using at least mounting component information used for mounting the electronic component on the substrate.
B05D 7/00 - Processes, other than flocking, specially adapted for applying liquids or other fluent materials to particular surfaces or for applying particular liquids or other fluent materials
B05C 11/00 - Component parts, details or accessories not specifically provided for in groups
B05D 3/00 - Pretreatment of surfaces to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied; After-treatment of applied coatings, e.g. intermediate treating of an applied coating preparatory to subsequent applications of liquids or other fluent materials
This kitting device extraction system comprises a plurality of types of kitting devices and an extracting unit. The plurality of types of kitting devices have different set tasks for setting, onto a feeder, a reel around which a carrier tape that accommodates components is wound. The extracting unit extracts, from the plurality of types of kitting devices, a corresponding kitting device with which the set task is possible on the basis of the state of the reel.
This substrate production system comprises a first production facility and a second production facility. The first production facility is equipped with a first number of production lines of a first type. The production lines of the first type perform component mounting processing to mount components on substrates. The second production facility is equipped with a second number of production lines of a second type, the second number of production lines being less than the first number of production lines. The production lines of the second type perform post-processing on a substrate 1 that has undergone the component mounting processing in the production lines of the first type.
This position correction device has a measurement device that measures the actual operation position of a transport robot that transports a workpiece to a machine tool, said position being based on a movement toward a target operation position of the transport robot. The transport robot is moved toward the measurement device, which is installed at a reference position that has been set in advance in the machine tool, the actual operation position is measured, and a correction value for correcting the target operation position is calculated on the basis of a difference between the reference position and the actual operation position.
B23B 25/06 - Measuring, gauging, or adjusting equipment on turning-machines for setting-on, feeding, controlling, or monitoring the cutting tools or work
B23B 15/00 - Arrangements for conveying, loading, adjusting, reversing, chucking, or discharging workpieces specially designed for automatic or semi-automatic turning-machines
B23Q 17/22 - Arrangements for indicating or measuring on machine tools for indicating or measuring existing or desired position of tool or work
G05B 19/404 - Numerical control (NC), i.e. automatically operating machines, in particular machine tools, e.g. in a manufacturing environment, so as to execute positioning, movement or co-ordinated operations by means of programme data in numerical form characterised by control arrangements for compensation, e.g. for backlash, overshoot, tool offset, tool wear, temperature, machine construction errors, load, inertia
This joining work machine comprises: a work head that has a component mounting tool for, by being lifted and lowered along a lifting/lowering shaft, collecting a component and mounting the component to a workpiece, and that is horizontally driven by a horizontally driving mechanism; and a laser beam emitting part that is provided to the work head or to the horizontally driving mechanism so as to emit a laser beam for heating a joining material in which a predetermined joining force is generated when being provided to a contact surface of the component and/or a contact surface of the workpiece where contact is formed therebetween and when being heated, toward the joining material, the component, or the workpiece from a direction inclined to the lifting/lowering shaft.
A machine tool for raising the efficiency of step switching work for a robot hand in an automated workpiece transport device, the machine tool having: a processing device for performing a process on a workpiece within a processing chamber; an automated workpiece transport device for gripping the workpiece using a robot hand provided with a chuck mechanism and transferring the workpiece to and from the processing device; and a control device for controlling driving of the processing device and the automated workpiece transport device, the control device being provided with a step switching work unit that, after the processing device and the automated workpiece transport device have undergone an emergency stop for the purpose of step switching work with respect to the robot hand, causes the robot hand to move to a work position according to driving control with respect to the automated workpiece transport device.
B23Q 7/04 - Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting by means of grippers
Provided is a combined processing machine provided with a separation shutter for dividing a space for a plurality of operating units, the combined processing machine having a bed provided with a front-side inclined surface inclined so as to be lower on a front side, a plurality of operating units arranged in a machine body width direction of the bed, a separation shutter that is disposed between the plurality of operating units and moves forward and back over the bed, and an extension shutter that is rotatably attached to the separation shutter and opens below the separation shutter as the separation shutter advances.
B23Q 11/08 - Protective coverings for parts of machine tools; Splash guards
B23B 3/16 - Turret lathes for turning individually-chucked workpieces
B23B 3/30 - Turning-machines with two or more working-spindles, e.g. in fixed arrangement
B23Q 11/00 - Accessories fitted to machine tools for keeping tools or parts of the machine in good working condition or for cooling work; Safety devices specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools
This robot device comprises: a robot body; a driving unit that drives the robot body; an external force detecting unit that detects an external force acting on the robot body; and a control unit that transitions to a safe state for controlling the driving unit so that the robot body performs an evacuation action in a prescribed direction when an external force acting on the robot body has been detected by the external force detecting unit.
This robot device is used in an ultrasonic diagnosis system for ultrasonically diagnosing an object. The robot device comprises an arm for holding and moving an ultrasonic probe, and an emission unit capable of emitting, at an object, light indicating the range of movement of the ultrasonic probe.
This component mounting system comprises: at least one camera capable of imaging at least one of a component pickup state and a component mounting state, and a component supply position; an error detection unit which controls the camera so that an image of at least one of the pickup state and the mounting state can be obtained during substrate production, and which is capable of executing at least one of an error detection process based on the pickup state image and an error detection process based on the mounting state image; an inspection unit; and a classification unit. The inspection unit applies a pre-attraction operation image to a trained model, which is obtained by machine learning using a plurality of pre-attraction operation images as input data and the presence or absence of a component in the component supply position as training data, to perform an inspection for the presence or absence of a component in the component supply position. Unless an error is detected, the classification unit during the machine learning classifies a pre-attraction operation image as training data indicating that a component is present.
An electrical circuit formation method comprising: a fluid applying step for applying a conductive fluid to a position, on a metal wire formed on a resin layer, in which an electrode of an electronic component is to be mounted; a mounting step for mounting the electronic component so that the electrode contacts the conductive fluid; and a pressing step for pressing the electronic component onto the resin layer by means of a pressing member with a sheet sandwiched between the electronic component that has been mounted in the mounting step and the pressing member, the sheet having a surface with a friction coefficient lower than a friction coefficient of at least a part of a surface of the pressing member that faces the electronic component.
H05K 3/12 - Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits in which conductive material is applied to the insulating support in such a manner as to form the desired conductive pattern using printing techniques to apply the conductive material
H05K 3/32 - Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits
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IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION SYSTEM, IMAGE DATA TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION METHOD, AND COMPONENT MOUNTING MACHINE
Provided is an image data transmission and reception system comprising a general-purpose communication cable, a transmission device, and a reception device. The general-purpose communication cable is a standardized communication cable for transmitting and receiving fixed-length image data. The transmission device comprises an image data acquisition unit that acquires fixed-length image data, an image compression unit that performs lossless image compression to convert the acquired fixed-length image data into variable-length compressed image data not of the standard of the general-purpose communication cable, and an image data transmission unit that transmits the variable-length compressed image data. The reception device comprises an image data reception unit that receives variable-length compressed image data transmitted from the image data transmission unit through the general-purpose communication cable and an image decompression unit that decompresses the variable-length compressed image data received by the image data reception unit into fixed-length image data.
H04N 21/436 - Interfacing a local distribution network, e.g. communicating with another STB or inside the home
H04N 19/90 - Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals using coding techniques not provided for in groups , e.g. fractals
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COMPONENT MOUNTING MACHINE AND COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD
This component mounting machine is provided with: a mounting control unit for executing a mounting process on the basis of a control program in which a PP cycle execution order including a picking-up operation of a component and a mounting operation for mounting the component to a substrate is set; a supply control unit for causing a bulk feeder, which supplies a plurality of components in a bulk state, to execute a supply operation for the components at a predetermined execution timing; and a timing setting unit for setting an execution timing of the supply operation, on the basis of the current number of pickable components and a required time for the supply operation, such that the difference between the number of pickable components in the bulk feeder and a necessary number of components to be picked up from the bulk feeder in a PP cycle scheduled to be executed is not less than a reference value and such that a waiting time for waiting for the end of the supply operation, before the picking-up operation is executed, is minimum.
This wafer extension device comprises a base plate, an annular first plate, a substantially annular second plate, an insertion part, and a warping prevention mechanism. The base plate comprises, on an upper surface thereof, an extension cylindrical part for extending a dicing sheet. The first plate encircles the extension cylindrical part from the outer circumferential side thereof. The second plate is disposed above the first plate and presses and fixes, from above, a wafer frame inserted into a gap between the second plate and the first plate. The insertion part is formed by notching a portion of the outer circumferential edge of the second plate, and the wafer frame can be slid and introduced into the gap between the first plate and the second plate. The warping prevention mechanism is provided at least in the location where the insertion part is formed on the outer circumferential edge of the second plate, and prevents warping of the second plate.
H01L 21/301 - Treatment of semiconductor bodies using processes or apparatus not provided for in groups to subdivide a semiconductor body into separate parts, e.g. making partitions
Provided are a machine tool system and a workpiece stacker with which it is possible to detect information pertaining to a pallet and to a workpiece positioned on the pallet. This machine tool system comprises: a robot for transporting a workpiece; a processing device for processing the workpiece received from the robot; a workpiece stacker having a plurality of pallets on which the workpiece can be positioned, the workpiece stacker transferring the workpiece between one of the pallets and the robot; an imaging device for imaging a transfer pallet disposed at a transfer position where the workpiece is transferred to and from the robot, among the plurality of pallets, and also imaging the workpiece positioned on the transfer pallet; and a control device for detecting pallet information provided to the transfer pallet, and workpiece information provided to the workpiece on the transfer pallet, on the basis of image data captured by the imaging device.
This setup system comprises: a storage unit; a setup device; and a modification unit. The storage unit stores at least one of: parts container information, which is information relating to a parts container containing substrate-mounted parts; and parts supply unit information, which is information relating to a parts supply unit for supplying the parts contained in the parts container to a collection position. The setup device places the parts container in the parts supply unit to enable parts to be supplied from the parts supply unit. The modification unit modifies an operating condition for when the setup device places the parts container in the parts supply unit, on the basis of at least one of the parts container information and the parts supply unit information that are stored in the storage unit.
This setup support apparatus comprises: an irradiation device that is capable of moving the irradiation position of light radiated from a light source; and a control device that controls the irradiation device on the basis of setup information representing, from among a plurality of slots to which a feeder that supplies a component to a component mounting machine for mounting a component to a substrate may be detachably set, a specific slot for which attachment/detachment of the feeder is necessary, and that moves the irradiation position such that the specific slot or the feeder set in the specific slot is irradiated with light.
Provided is a machine tool that can set an appropriate delivery position which corresponds to the weight and length of a workpiece and at which the workpiece is transferred between a Cartesian coordinate robot and a partner device. A machine tool comprises: a partner device capable of holding a workpiece; a Cartesian coordinate robot that includes a holding member for holding the workpiece and that transfers the workpiece, which is held by the holding member, between the Cartesian coordinate robot and the partner device; and a control device that controls the Cartesian coordinate robot. The control device executes: an acquisition process for acquiring the weight and length of the workpiece in the transfer between the Cartesian coordinate robot and the partner device; and a setting process for setting a delivery position, which is the position of the Cartesian coordinate robot in the transfer of the workpiece between the Cartesian coordinate robot and the partner device, on the basis of the weight and length of the workpiece that have been acquired in the acquisition process.
B23Q 7/04 - Arrangements for handling work specially combined with or arranged in, or specially adapted for use in connection with, machine tools, e.g. for conveying, loading, positioning, discharging, sorting by means of grippers
B23B 15/00 - Arrangements for conveying, loading, adjusting, reversing, chucking, or discharging workpieces specially designed for automatic or semi-automatic turning-machines
B25J 19/00 - Accessories fitted to manipulators, e.g. for monitoring, for viewing; Safety devices combined with or specially adapted for use in connection with manipulators
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COMPONENT MOUNTING MACHINE AND COMPONENT MOUNTING METHOD
This component mounting machine is provided with: a mounting control unit that performs a mounting process on the basis of a control program in which the execution order of a PP cycle including a component picking operation and a mounting operation for mounting a component to a substrate is set; a supply control unit that, if a pickable number of components in a bulk feeder that supplies a plurality of components in a bulk state is less than a criterion value, causes the bulk feeder to perform a component supply operation along with the mounting operation; and an order adjusting unit that, if the required time for the mounting operation planned to be executed along with a next round of the supply operation on the basis of the current pickable number is shorter than the required time for the supply operation, adjusts the execution order of the PP cycle including the mounting operation.
This inspection assistance device comprises: an image acquisition unit that acquires image data by capturing images of an upper surface and a back surface of a component in a supply step in which a component supply unit supplies the component to a component mounting machine in a pickable manner; a component analysis unit that, on the basis of the image data, determines the positional relationship of a feature portion on the back surface of the component with respect to the exterior of the component on the upper surface side thereof on the basis of the image data, and causes the positional relationship to be stored as feature portion information; and a storage unit in which mounting information, indicating a substrate on which the component picked by the component mounting machine has been mounted and the mounting position of the component on the substrate, is stored in association with the feature portion information in such a manner as to be readable by an inspection device that performs exterior inspection of the substrate having the component mounted thereon.
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