Patents by Inventor Shozo Minamitani

Shozo Minamitani 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: 6246789
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes a component holding and conveying device for holding and conveying a component and mounting the component onto a circuit board, a circuit board holding device for holding the circuit board, an image recognition optical system for performing recognition of the component and the circuit board with different fields of view, respectively, and a control section. The control section repeatedly determines an optical axis shift amount with the two fields of view between a position of the component and a position of the circuit board recognized by the image recognition optical system. Based on these determination results, the control section determines an optical axis shift amount for calibration, wherein calibration of the image recognition optical system is performed based on the optical-axis shift amount for calibration determined by the control section. Then, the component is mounted onto the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Hosotani, Koichi Morita, Shunji Onobori, Shozo Minamitani, Kenichi Nishino
  • Publication number: 20010001469
    Abstract: Sealant 11 is supplied in advance to one or both of the electrical bonding areas 5,6 of the component 3 and the mounting surface 4, and as the component 3 is brought in contact with the mounting surface 4, the sealant 11 is compressed and filled therebetween in a required area. At the same time ultrasonic vibration is applied to the component 3 for generating friction between the electrical bonding areas 5, 6 of the component 3 and the mounting surface 4 in tight contact with each other, so that both electrical bonding areas 5, 6 are melted and ultrasonically bonded together, and thereby the component 3 is mounted on the mounting surface 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Publication date: May 24, 2001
    Inventors: Kazushi Higashi, Hiroyuki Otani, Shozo Minamitani, Shinji Kanayama, Kenji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6193136
    Abstract: Sealant 11 is supplied in advance to one or both of the electrical bonding areas 5,6 of the component 3 and the mounting surface 4, and as the component 3 is brought in contact with the mounting surface 4, the sealant 11 is compressed and filled therebetween in a required area. At the same time ultrasonic vibration is applied to the component 3 for generating friction between the electrical bonding areas 5, 6 of the component 3 and the mounting surface 4 in tight contact with each other, so that both electrical bonding areas 5, 6 are melted and ultrasonically bonded together, and thereby the component 3 is mounted on the mounting surface 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazushi Higashi, Hiroyuki Otani, Shozo Minamitani, Shinji Kanayama, Kenji Takahashi