Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Kawai
Hidetoshi Kawai 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).
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Patent number: 10729049Abstract: In component mounting device, if a rotary head held by a head holder greatly deviates from a specified reference, a CPU executes a process for a holding error. The process for the holding error includes a process of holding a rotary head again by the head holder or the like, for example. If the rotary head greatly deviates from a specified reference and the component mounting process is executed as is, there is a fear that poor precision will occur during component mounting. Therefore, the CPU does not execute the component mounting process but executes the process for the holding error.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoru Nishiyama, Hidetoshi Kawai, Kazuhiro Kusunoki
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Publication number: 20200221618Abstract: A component mounting machine including: a moving device configured to move between a component supply position and a circuit board; a mounting head provided on the moving device and configured to pick up a component supplied to the component supply position and mount the picked-up component on the circuit board; a component camera configured to image the component held by the mounting head from below the mounting head; a board camera provided on the moving device and configured to image the circuit board from above; an imaging position memory section configured to memorize imaging position coordinates that are position coordinates of the moving device during imaging by the component camera, based on image data acquired by imaging of the mounting head by the component camera; a relative position memory section configured to memorize relative position coordinates that are a relative position of the mounting head with respect to the board camera; and a correction necessity determining section configured to perfoType: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2017Publication date: July 9, 2020Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI
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Publication number: 20200214184Abstract: A component mounting machine including a component supply device to supply a component to a supply position; a component transfer device to use a component mounting tool to pick up the component from the supply position and mount the component on a board; a component detecting section to detect whether the component is present at the supply position before or while the component is being picked up by the component mounting tool; a holding detecting section to detect whether the component mounting tool is holding the component following pickup; and a remaining detecting section to detect whether the component remains at the supply position in a case in which it is detected by the holding detecting section that the component is not being held by the component mounting tool; and a dropped determining section to determine whether the component has dropped.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2017Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Rie KITO, Hidetoshi KAWAI, Norio HOSOI, Mizuho NOZAWA, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi ITO, Shingo FUJIMURA, Kenzo ISHIKAWA, Yusuke YAMAKAGE
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Publication number: 20200154620Abstract: The measurement position determination device of the present disclosure is a measurement position determination device for determining a measurement position on a board, the measurement position being for measuring height of the board on which on which a component is mounted, and includes a measurement position determination section for acquiring one or more scheduled mounting positions of the component on the board at the time of measuring the board height and determining at least one of the acquired scheduled mounting positions as the measurement position of the board height.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2017Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Hiroyoshi SUGITA, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi KAWAI, Yusuke YAMAKAGE
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Patent number: 10647510Abstract: A work machine including a conveyor belt is rotated such that a protruding section is positioned on the upstream side of an end face on the opposite side to a conveyance direction of a circuit board while the circuit board is clamped by a clamping device. Thereby, it is possible to prevent interference between the projecting portion and the circuit board, and reliably push out the circuit board toward the downstream side using the protruding section. In multiple work machines, the circuit boards are simultaneously conveyed after a clamp of the circuit board is released. Thereby, there is no need for the work machine on the upstream side to be on standby for conveyance of the circuit board using the work machine on the downstream side and it is possible to prevent a reduction of throughput.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
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Publication number: 20200113095Abstract: An electronic component mounting machine including a board clamp device configured to clamp a circuit board conveyed by a conveyor by sandwiching side edge sections of the circuit board between a clamp member from below and a conveyor rail from above by raising the clamp member, the electronic component mounting machine being configured to mount electronic components on the circuit board clamped by the board clamp device; and a control device configured to control a clamping force that is a sandwiching force on the side edge sections of the circuit board sandwiched between the clamp member and the conveyor rail of the board clamp device. The control device is configured to acquire board information including at least a weight of the circuit board and to control the clamping force of the board clamp device based on the acquired board information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2017Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa KANDA, Hidetoshi KAWAI
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Publication number: 20200100407Abstract: A component mounter including a mounting head having multiple holding bodies, a revolving mechanism configured to revolve the multiple holding bodies along a revolution trajectory, a rotating mechanism configured to cause the multiple holding bodies to rotate on their axes in synchronism with each other, a detection section configured to detect a component located in one or more component detection positions which are different from the component pickup positions on the revolution trajectory from a side thereof; and a control section. The control section performs component pickup processing for causing the mounting head to cause at least one of the holding bodies located in the component pickup position to pick up and hold the component and holding body revolving processing for causing the revolving mechanism to locate the holding body that does not hold the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: March 26, 2020Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi ITO, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi KAWAI
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Patent number: 10555448Abstract: The component mounting device determines suction deviation (posture change) of the component from after suction of the component until prior to mounting of the component based on an immediately post-suction image which is acquired by imaging the suction nozzle from the side immediately after suction of the component and an immediately pre-mounting image that is acquired by imaging the suction nozzle from the side immediately prior to mounting of the component.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
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Patent number: 10524401Abstract: A component mounting machine moves a mounting head from a supply position P1 to each of mounting positions P3 and P4 of a circuit board CB via an imaging position P2. Further, the component mounting machine performs control such that the mounting head moves in a direction of movement at the time of imaging that is either of an X-axis direction or a Y-axis direction when passing through the imaging position P2. The component mounting machine determines the direction of movement at the time of imaging, according to a first X-axis distance Lx and a first Y-axis distance Ly from the imaging position P2 to each of the mounting positions P3 and P4.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Jun Iisaka, Hidetoshi Ito, Hidetoshi Kawai, Shigeto Oyama, Naohiro Kato, Kuniyasu Nakane, Ryo Nagata, Keisuke Nagiri
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Publication number: 20190364182Abstract: An illumination device configured to illuminate an imaging target, an image of which is to be captured by a camera, provided with a current adjusting device configured to adjust a current flowing through the LEDs of four LED-mounted boards on which many of the LEDs are mounted, wherein the four LED-mounted boards are arranged in a four-sided shape centered around the light axis of the camera as viewed from the imaging target, and each of the LED-mounted boards is inclined at a specified angle so that the LEDs of the LED-mounted boards face the imaging target. The current adjusting device is configured to divide an LED-mounted area of each of the LED-mounted boards into multiple illumination areas and to individually adjust the current flowing to the LEDs of each of the LED-mounted boards for each of the multiple illumination areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Yusuke YAMAKAGE, Hidetoshi KAWAI
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Publication number: 20190335631Abstract: A component mounting machine includes multiple component supplying devices, a head, a head moving device, and a nozzle lifting and lowering device. The component supplying device feeds out a component to a component supply position. The head includes multiple nozzles configured to suction a component. The head moving device moves the head to cause the nozzles to face the respective component supply positions with two or more thereof. The nozzle lifting and lowering device lifts and lowers the nozzle located to face the component supply positions. In positioning the nozzles to face the respective component supply positions, the head is moved so as to prioritize a positional correction of a nozzle facing a smallest sized component over positional corrections of the other nozzles, and in this state, the nozzles facing the respective component supply positions are lifted and lowered simultaneously to suction corresponding components.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi KAWAI, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi ITO
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Patent number: 10223781Abstract: A soft back-up pin state checking device including a soft back-up pin formed of a bottom-side holder portion, and a top-side soft pin portion which is held by the holder portion in an exchangeable manner. A ring-shaped background portion which is possible to be distinguished from the soft pin portion and be recognized using image processing is provided on a top end surface of a cylindrical fitting portion which is outside of an outer circumference of the soft pin portion in the holder portion of the soft back-up pin.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
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Publication number: 20180368298Abstract: In a component mounting machine, before the suction nozzle held by the rotary head is automatically exchanged, the nozzle ID codes of all suction nozzles arranged on the nozzle station are continuously read at a high speed and stored in association with the position of each suction nozzle. Sequentially imaging the nozzle ID code display section of each suction nozzle of each column is performed without stopping the mark imaging camera while moving the camera in an arrangement direction of the suction nozzle of each column of the nozzle station. The movement direction of the camera is reversed each time the last imaging operation of one column is completed and the camera is moved to imaging an adjacent column and the nozzle ID code of each suction nozzle of each column read at the image processing is stored in the storage in association with the position of each suction nozzle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Fuji Machine MFG., Co.,LtdInventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI
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Patent number: 10117368Abstract: A board work device provided with mounting head that performs work with respect to a circuit board, slider on which the mounting head is mounted, moving device that moves the slider to any position, and support pin gripping device for gripping support pins which is provided on the slider on the opposite side to the side on which the mounting head is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2013Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Mizuno, Hidetoshi Kawai, Hidetoshi Ito, Masahiro Kondo
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Patent number: 10104820Abstract: A mounting machine acquires identification information arranged in a back-up plate, from the back-up plate. The mounting machine controls a conveyance unit so as to change a conveyance lane based on mounting conditions when the acquired identification information is identification information which is included in the mounting conditions of a printed circuit board. Meanwhile, in the mounting machine, when the acquired identification information is not the identification information which is included in the mounting conditions of the printed circuit board, the conveyance lane is stopped from being changed. In this manner, a conveyance width of the conveyance lane is not changed when the back-up plate which is ready to be subjected to mounting processing and matches the mounting conditions is not mounted.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2013Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
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Publication number: 20180279521Abstract: In component mounting device, if a rotary head held by a head holder greatly deviates from a specified reference, a CPU executes a process for a holding error. The process for the holding error includes a process of holding a rotary head again by the head holder or the like, for example. If the rotary head greatly deviates from a specified reference and the component mounting process is executed as is, there is a fear that poor precision will occur during component mounting. Therefore, the CPU does not execute the component mounting process but executes the process for the holding error.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2015Publication date: September 27, 2018Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoru NISHIYAMA, Hidetoshi KAWAI, Kazuhiro KUSUNOKI
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Patent number: 10064320Abstract: A component mounter which picks components which are stored in tape and supplied from a component supply device by a component picking device and mounts components on a board which is conveyed by a board conveyance device including a waste box which stores the cut tape after the components are picked, a scraping out device which can scrape the tape out of the waste box, and a control device which controls scraping out the stored tape by the scraping out device when the tape is stored in the waste box to a predetermined amount.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2012Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi Kawai, Masafumi Amano, Katsushi Ota, Kazuhiro Asada, Tsutomu Kunihiro
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Publication number: 20180242486Abstract: A component mounting positional deviation amount measurement unit is set in a feeder setting section of a component mounting machine so as to be exchangeable with a cassette-type feeder, and includes measurement nozzle placement sections in which measurement nozzles exchangeably held in a mounting head of the component mounting machine are placed; measurement component placement sections in which measurement components are placed; and a measurement mounting table on which a measurement fiducial mark is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Fuji Machine MFG. Co., LtdInventors: Hiroyoshi SUGITA, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi KAWAI, Hidetoshi ITO
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Publication number: 20180242485Abstract: Component mounting line includes multiple component mounting machines arranged along a conveyance direction of a board, feeder storage container that stores multiple feeders that are attachable and detachable to component mounting machine, and exchanging robot capable of exchanging feeder between feeder storage container and each of the component mounting machines, in which feeder storage container is installed in the same arrangement as the multiple component mounting machines, and exchanging robot moves along the conveyance direction of the board and exchanges feeder. Accordingly, regardless of which of the component mounting machines feeder is used in, replenishment and collection may be performed in feeder storage container, so that an operator can easily replenish and collect feeder.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2015Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro KONDO, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi KAWAI
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Publication number: 20180201446Abstract: A work machine including a conveyor belt is rotated such that a protruding section is positioned on the upstream side of an end face on the opposite side to a conveyance direction of a circuit board while the circuit board is clamped by a clamping device. Thereby, it is possible to prevent interference between the projecting portion and the circuit board, and reliably push out the circuit board toward the downstream side using the protruding section. In multiple work machines, the circuit boards are simultaneously conveyed after a clamp of the circuit board is released. Thereby, there is no need for the work machine on the upstream side to be on standby for conveyance of the circuit board using the work machine on the downstream side and it is possible to prevent a reduction of throughput.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: July 19, 2018Applicant: FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI