Patents by Inventor Chihiro Igarashi

Chihiro Igarashi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9673165
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes a tape attaching unit, a component mounting unit and a component compression unit provided in this order. A time measuring unit measures time having passed after completion of predetermined work performed on all the substrates transferred to the tape attaching unit, the component mounting unit, and the component compression unit, respectively. When preparation for transferring the substrates to the tape attaching unit is not completed within a predetermined time after the start of measurement performed by the time measuring unit, the respective substrates, which wait in the tape attaching unit, the component mounting unit, and the component compression unit, are forcibly transferred to the downstream sides and predetermined work is performed on the respective substrates that are forcibly transferred to the component mounting unit and the component compression unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Okada, Chihiro Igarashi, Toshihiko Tsujikawa
  • Patent number: 9547190
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes a tape attaching unit, a component mounting unit and a component compression unit provided in this order. A time measuring unit measures time having passed after attachment of the adhesive tape in the tape attaching unit. When a predetermined time has passed after the start of measurement performed by the time measuring unit, the substrate, to which the adhesive tape of a measuring target is attached, is forcibly transferred to the downstream side, and the component is compressed to the substrate in the component compression unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Okada, Chihiro Igarashi, Toshihiko Tsujikawa
  • Publication number: 20150083336
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes a tape attaching unit, a component mounting unit and a component compression unit provided in this order. A time measuring unit measures time having passed after completion of predetermined work performed on all the substrates transferred to the tape attaching unit, the component mounting unit, and the component compression unit, respectively. When preparation for transferring the substrates to the tape attaching unit is not completed within a predetermined time after the start of measurement performed by the time measuring unit, the respective substrates, which wait in the tape attaching unit, the component mounting unit, and the component compression unit, are forcibly transferred to the downstream sides and predetermined work is performed on the respective substrates that are forcibly transferred to the component mounting unit and the component compression unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKADA, Chihiro IGARASHI, Toshihiko TSUJIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20150083335
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes a tape attaching unit, a component mounting unit and a component compression unit provided in this order. A time measuring unit measures time having passed after attachment of the adhesive tape in the tape attaching unit. When a predetermined time has passed after the start of measurement performed by the time measuring unit, the substrate, to which the adhesive tape of a measuring target is attached, is forcibly transferred to the downstream side, and the component is compressed to the substrate in the component compression unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yasuhiro OKADA, Chihiro IGARASHI, Toshihiko TSUJIKAWA
  • Patent number: 8078310
    Abstract: A component crimping apparatus control method which enables a measuring tool to directly measure a temperature of a part pressed by a pressing head. The component crimping apparatus control method is applied to a component crimping apparatus which crimps a component onto a plate-shaped workpiece, and causes a measuring tool shaped identically as the workpiece to measure a temperature or a pressure of a pressed part in a pressing process of pressing a component onto the workpiece using a heated pressing head. The method includes acquiring information indicating whether or not the measuring tool is held in the component crimping apparatus, and, in the case where the information indicating that the measuring tool is held is acquired, positioning the measuring tool identically as the workpiece, and executing the pressing process on the component to be attached to the measuring tool after the positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Tomotaka Nishimoto, Yasuhiro Okada, Chihiro Igarashi, Takanori Yoshitake, Nobuhisa Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20110180210
    Abstract: To provide a pressure bonding apparatus comprising a plurality of pressure bonding units comprising pressing members including pressing surfaces for pressing objects against pressure bonding areas on edge portions of a substrate and edge portion support members for supporting the edge portions of the substrate, the plurality of pressure bonding units arranged in a row along a first direction, a protection sheet supplying device for supplying along the first direction a protection sheet that has a width more than at least twice a width of the pressing surfaces of the pressing members in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and that protects the pressing surfaces by being interposed between the pressing surfaces of the pressing members and the objects and for suspending the protection sheet under tension along the first direction between the plurality of pressing members and the edge portion support members, and a second direction sheet moving device for moving the protection sheet in a range no
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuo Mori, Chihiro Igarashi