Patents by Inventor Masashi Matsumori

Masashi Matsumori 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: 10542648
    Abstract: A tape feeder (part feeding device) includes a main body including a transporting passage for guiding a part feeding tape to a part removing position, a conveyor for positioning a storage of the part feeding tape which is inserted to the transporting passage to the part removing position, and a part detector for detecting the part stored in the storage in the transporting passage at the upstream side of the part removing position. The transporting passage includes a travelling surface for supporting the part feeding tape from underneath, a pair of side guides for guiding two side surfaces of the part feeding tape, and a squeezed portion in which a distance between the pair of side guides is gradually reduced from the upstream side of the part detector toward a part detecting position of the part detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Takashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10405470
    Abstract: A part feeding device of the present disclosure includes a main body; a conveyor; and a part detector. At a position further upstream than the part detector, the transporting passage includes a guide surface for guiding the lower surface of the part feeding tape, and a ceiling surface which faces the guide surface and is positioned at a position upwardly apart from the guide surface by the dimension larger than the thickness of the part feeding tape having the maximum thickness to be used in the part feeding device. The transporting passage includes a partial guide surface which supports the lower surface of the part feeding tape, and the partial guide surface includes an approaching portion approaching a ceiling surface in a downstream direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Takashi Nakamura, Kazunori Ishikawa, Kozo Odawara
  • Patent number: 10225969
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus transports a component supply tape having accommodation sections in which electronic components are accommodated and that supplies each of the electronic components accommodated in each of the accommodation sections to a component mounting apparatus. The electronic component supply apparatus includes a component depletion determining unit that determines that the electronic components are depleted in the component supply tape when a determination result of a component presence/absence determining unit is “absence” or determination results of the component presence/absence determining unit are “absence” a plurality of consecutive times; and a tape discharge processing unit that causes a component supply tape transport unit to transport the depleted component supply tape to a discharge port after a final component is picked up at a component picking-up position after the component depletion determining unit determines component depletion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Takashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20190037740
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus that transports a component supply tape which has accommodation sections and sprocket holes and which accommodates an electronic component in each of the accommodation sections and is covered with a cover tape, to a component picking-up position and that supplies the electronic component to a component mounting apparatus, the electronic component supply apparatus includes a sprocket hole detecting unit that detects a sprocket hole on the upstream side on a transport path from the component picking-up position; an electronic component detecting unit that detects an electronic component accommodated in the accommodation section on the transport path on the upstream side from the component picking-up position; and a component presence/absence determining unit that determines presence or absence of an electronic component in the accommodation section based on information from the sprocket hole detecting unit and information from the electronic component detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 10123468
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus that transports a component supply tape which has accommodation sections and sprocket holes and which accommodates an electronic component in each of the accommodation sections and is covered with a cover tape, to a component picking-up position and that supplies the electronic component to a component mounting apparatus, the electronic component supply apparatus includes a sprocket hole detecting unit that detects a sprocket hole on the upstream side on a transport path from the component picking-up position; an electronic component detecting unit that detects an electronic component accommodated in the accommodation section on the transport path on the upstream side from the component picking-up position; and a component presence/absence determining unit that determines presence or absence of an electronic component in the accommodation section based on information from the sprocket hole detecting unit and information from the electronic component detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Takashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10112418
    Abstract: A part detecting device of a carrier tape includes a transporting passage, a part detector, and a biasing mechanism that presses the part detector against the carrier tape inside the transporting passage. The carrier tape is transported to the transporting passage. The part detector detects parts stored in storages which are formed on the carrier tape passing through the transporting passage at regular intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Takashi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10000352
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus that transports a component supply tape which has accommodation sections and sprocket holes formed at regular intervals and which accommodates an electronic component in each of the accommodation sections, to a component picking-up position and that supplies the electronic component accommodated in the accommodation section to a component mounting apparatus, the electronic component supply apparatus includes a slippage detector that detects slippage occurring in a transport of the component supply tape by a component supply tape transport unit; and a transport correction unit that corrects the transport of the component supply tape by the component supply tape transport unit based on the slippage detected by the slippage detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Takashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170259589
    Abstract: A part detecting device of a carrier tape includes a transporting passage, a part detector, and a biasing mechanism that presses the part detector against the carrier tape inside the transporting passage. The carrier tape is transported to the transporting passage. The part detector detects parts stored in storages which are formed on the carrier tape passing through the transporting passage at regular intervals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 9743569
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus transports a component supply tape which has accommodation sections and sprocket holes formed at regular intervals and which accommodates electronic components in the accommodation sections and is covered with a cover tape, to a component picking-up position and supplies each of the electronic components accommodated in each of the accommodation sections to a component mounting apparatus. The electronic component supply apparatus includes an electronic component detecting unit that detects the electronic component accommodated in the accommodation section of the component supply tape which has yet to pass the cover tape processing unit on a transport path; a determination unit that determines presence or absence of an electronic component in the accommodation section based on information from the electronic component detecting unit; and a control unit that controls a component supply tape transport unit based on a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Takashi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20170112030
    Abstract: A tape feeder (part feeding device) includes a main body including a transporting passage for guiding a part feeding tape to a part removing position, a conveyor for positioning a storage of the part feeding tape which is inserted to the transporting passage to the part removing position, and a part detector for detecting the part stored in the storage in the transporting passage at the upstream side of the part removing position. The transporting passage includes a travelling surface for supporting the part feeding tape from underneath, a pair of side guides for guiding two side surfaces of the part feeding tape, and a squeezed portion in which a distance between the pair of side guides is gradually reduced from the upstream side of the part detector toward a part detecting position of the part detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170072710
    Abstract: A part feeding device of the present disclosure includes a main body; a conveyor; and a part detector. At a positon further upstream than the part detector, the transporting passage includes a guide surface for guiding the lower surface of the part feeding tape, and a ceiling surface which faces the guide surface and is positioned at a position upwardly apart from the guide surface by the dimension larger than the thickness of the part feeding tape having the maximum thickness to be used in the part feeding device. The transporting passage includes a partial guide surface which supports the lower surface of the part feeding tape, and the partial guide surface includes an approaching portion approaching a ceiling surface in a downstream direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA, Kazunori ISHIKAWA, Kozo ODAWARA
  • Publication number: 20160194171
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus that transports a component supply tape which has accommodation sections and sprocket holes and which accommodates an electronic component in each of the accommodation sections and is covered with a cover tape, to a component picking-up position and that supplies the electronic component to a component mounting apparatus, the electronic component supply apparatus includes a sprocket hole detecting unit that detects a sprocket hole on the upstream side on a transport path from the component picking-up position; an electronic component detecting unit that detects an electronic component accommodated in the accommodation section on the transport path on the upstream side from the component picking-up position; and a component presence/absence determining unit that determines presence or absence of an electronic component in the accommodation section based on information from the sprocket hole detecting unit and information from the electronic component detecting unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160198597
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus transports a component supply tape which has accommodation sections and sprocket holes formed at regular intervals and which accommodates electronic components in the accommodation sections and is covered with a cover tape, to a component picking-up position and supplies each of the electronic components accommodated in each of the accommodation sections to a component mounting apparatus. The electronic component supply apparatus includes an electronic component detecting unit that detects the electronic component accommodated in the accommodation section of the component supply tape which has yet to pass the cover tape processing unit on a transport path; a determination unit that determines presence or absence of an electronic component in the accommodation section based on information from the electronic component detecting unit; and a control unit that controls a component supply tape transport unit based on a determination result of the determination unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160198598
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus transports a component supply tape having accommodation sections in which electronic components are accommodated and that supplies each of the electronic components accommodated in each of the accommodation sections to a component mounting apparatus. The electronic component supply apparatus includes a component depletion determining unit that determines that the electronic components are depleted in the component supply tape when a determination result of a component presence/absence determining unit is “absence” or determination results of the component presence/absence determining unit are “absence” a plurality of consecutive times; and a tape discharge processing unit that causes a component supply tape transport unit to transport the depleted component supply tape to a discharge port after a final component is picked up at a component picking-up position after the component depletion determining unit determines component depletion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20160198595
    Abstract: An electronic component supply apparatus that transports a component supply tape which has accommodation sections and sprocket holes formed at regular intervals and which accommodates an electronic component in each of the accommodation sections, to a component picking-up position and that supplies the electronic component accommodated in the accommodation section to a component mounting apparatus, the electronic component supply apparatus includes a slippage detector that detects slippage occurring in a transport of the component supply tape by a component supply tape transport unit; and a transport correction unit that corrects the transport of the component supply tape by the component supply tape transport unit based on the slippage detected by the slippage detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Masashi MATSUMORI, Takashi NAKAMURA
  • Publication number: 20130233828
    Abstract: An atmospheric plasma irradiation unit has a discharge tube for ejecting a primary plasma formed of an inductively coupled plasma of an inert gas and a mixer for generating a secondary plasma formed of a mixed gas plasmanized by collisions of the primary plasma with a mixed gas region of a second inert gas and a reactive gas. The discharge tube and the mixer are included in a plasma head. A moving unit moves the plasma head so that an irradiation area of the secondary plasma to an object is moved on a circular or other-shaped locus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Shigeki Nakatsuka, Teppei Kojio
  • Publication number: 20120329182
    Abstract: When metal junction between a first electrode and a second electrode is executed as ultrasonic bonding between metals including at least copper, the ultrasonic bonding is performed in a state that a contact interface between the first electrode and the second electrode is covered with a bonding auxiliary agent. As a result, formation of oxide at a bonding interface between the first electrode and the second electrode due to execution of the ultrasonic bonding can be suppressed. Therefore, while a desired bonding strength is ensured, ultrasonic bonding with copper used for the first electrode or the second electrode can be fulfilled and cost cuts in mounting of semiconductor devices can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventors: Teppei Kojio, Masashi Matsumori, Tadahiko Sakai, Takatoshi Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20090116166
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating atmospheric-pressure plasma includes: a substrate; an antenna arranged on the substrate; a discharge tube arranged in the vicinity of the antenna; a high-frequency power supply for supplying VHF band high-frequency power to the antenna; and a matching circuit for receiving a high frequency from the high-frequency power supply and adjusting a reflection wave. In this apparatus for generating atmospheric-pressure plasma, a phase circuit is connected between the matching circuit and the antenna, and the phase circuit has a circuit constant setting such that a position of a maximum value of a current amplitude of a standing wave or a position of a minimum value of a voltage amplitude of the standing wave is in the vicinity of the antenna. This configuration can efficiently generate plasma and reduce the size of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Matsumori, Shigeki Nakatsuka, Takanori Ichiki