Abstract: To provide an electronic circuit production method using 3D layer shaping capable of producing an electronic circuit having improved electrical properties and mechanical properties by utilizing characteristics of a fluid containing a metal particle by selectively using the fluid containing the metal particle. The electronic circuit production method using 3D layer shaping, the method including a wiring forming step of forming a wiring by applying a fluid containing a nano-sized metal nanoparticle on an insulating member and curing the applied fluid containing the metal nanoparticle; and a connection terminal forming step of forming a connection terminal electrically connected to the wiring by applying a fluid containing a micro-sized metal microparticle and curing the applied fluid containing the metal microparticle.

Abstract: A method for optimizing component type arrangement in which multiple component types are optimally disposed on multiple installation positions when an automatic feeder device which automatically loads the component storage tape, a manual feeder device which does not automatically load the component storage tape, and a reel holding device are installed into the installation positions on a common pallet, the method includes a step of determining a portion of the multiple installation positions as a fixed position and fixing the determined automatic feeder device to the fixed position; and an optimizing step of performing a simulation optimally disposing the multiple component types on the multiple installation positions under a condition that the manual feeder device can be moved to an arbitrary installation position other than the fixed position without moving the automatic feeder device from the fixed position.

Abstract: A management device causes a mobile work device to execute a pre-replacement process of detaching a pre-served feeder from a mounting attachment portion before a component shortage of a feeder and attaching a replacement feeder corresponding to a feeder predicted to be subjected to the component shortage to the mounting attachment portion from which the pre-served feeder is detached when the feeder attached to the mounting attachment portion is predicted to be subjected to the component shortage and the mounting attachment portion is in a predetermined serving state such that there is no vacancy in the mounting attachment portion and the pre-served feeder to be used in the next and subsequent productions is attached to a part of the mounting attachment portion.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a turret device, a turret slide device configured to slide the turret device along a turret slide axis, a tool spindle device, a tool spindle slide device configured to slide the tool spindle device along a tool spindle slide axis, a numerical control device configured to numerically control the turret slide device and the tool spindle slide device, and a programmable logic controller (PLC) connected to the numerical control device. When control of the turret slide axis for sliding the turret device and control of the tool spindle slide axis for sliding the tool spindle device are switched, the numerical control device shifts the control of the turret slide axis and the control of the tool spindle slide axis by changing a value of a predetermined device in the PLC.

Abstract: A tape feeder setup system includes a loading table on which a tape feeder is placed, the tape feeder having a drive mechanism configured to feed a carrier tape accommodating multiple components to be mounted on a board from a reel in a predetermined supply direction and supplying the component, a determination section configured to determine whether the carrier tape is automatically returned in a reverse direction of the supply direction based on a use plan in a future of the component and an estimable use frequency in the future of the component for the tape feeder placed on the loading table as a target, and a control section configured to cause the drive mechanism of the tape feeder to return the carrier tape in the reverse direction in a case where the determination section determines that the carrier tape is automatically returned in the reverse direction.

Abstract: A machine tool includes a display operation device, and a control device to display multiple individual operation buttons and a display switching button on the display operation device and execute control indicated by the multiple individual operation buttons and the display switching button in accordance with an operation performed on the multiple individual operation buttons and the display switching button. The multiple individual operation buttons are buttons to provide an instruction of a series of operations executed by the machine tool in multiple stages. The control device displays button information indicating the individual operation button in accordance with a state of the machine tool among the multiple individual operation buttons on the display switching button, switches the button information displayed on the display switching button in accordance with an operation of executing the display switching button, and switches the button information in order of the series of operations.

Abstract: A component includes a board conveyance device, a component supply device, a nozzle, a component moving device, an imaging device, and a control device to, in a case where the electronic component picked up by the nozzle has an enough size to be disposed over both the entire imaging range of the imaging device and a space above the board conveyed to the work position, when the electronic component is imaged by the imaging device, cause the component moving device to rotate the nozzle at a position at which the electronic component is not located in the space above the board and cause the imaging device to image the electronic component from below before and after the nozzle is rotated about the axis.

Abstract: A transport cart includes a cargo movement section configured to place a cargo thereon and move the cargo in horizontal, front, and rear directions; a first direction restriction portion to be movable between a restriction position and a restriction release position that are in an up-down relationship, restricts the movement of the cargo placed on the cargo movement section in the front direction at the restriction position, and allow the movement of the cargo placed on the cargo movement section in the front direction at the restriction release position; and a control section to execute pre-restriction release processing of controlling the cargo movement section so that the cargo moves once in the rear direction while maintaining a state where a front restriction portion is located at the restriction position before the front restriction portion located at the restriction position is moved to the restriction release position.

Abstract: A behavior monitoring system includes a detection section, a storage section, and a processing section. The detection section is installed in a house and includes multiple occupancy sensors configured to detect a monitoring target person in a non-contact manner in detection ranges different with each other. The processing section is configured to acquire a distance between two points among the multiple occupancy sensors in advance to store the distance in the storage section. The processing section is configured to store reaction time as reaction data in the storage section in a case where any of the multiple occupancy sensors reacts, and calculate a movement distance of the monitoring target person per unit time based on data stored in the storage section.

Abstract: An allowance setting system, a substrate inspection device, an allowance setting method, and a substrate inspection method that can set an appropriate inspection allowance are provided in which a normal mounting position of electronic component on a component mounting surface of substrate is defined as normal position. A deviation of an actual mounting position of electronic component in a surface direction of the component mounting surface with respect to the normal position is defined as surface direction deviation. A deviation of the actual mounting position of electronic component in a rotation direction within the component mounting surface with respect to normal position is defined as angular deviation. Allowance setting system sets multiple surface direction inspection allowances according to angular deviation for evaluating surface direction deviation in a substrate inspection before reflow.

Abstract: The management device includes a management control section configured to set attachment position setting information including an attachment position of a feeder in a tendency such that the feeder is to be replaced in association with production switching to be attached to an attachment portion closer to a storage section based on production plan information including multiple pieces of mounting condition information.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis system includes a reaction force detection sensor that detects a reaction force acting on an ultrasonic probe when the ultrasonic probe is pressed against a body surface of a subject. Then, the ultrasonic diagnosis system estimates the push-in amount of the ultrasonic probe with respect to the subject by using the reaction force detection sensor during the ultrasonic diagnosis to output a display or a warning of the estimated push-in amount of the ultrasonic probe to the output device.

Abstract: When an article is delivered between a first electric conveyor of an automated guided vehicle and a second electric conveyor of a storage section, a first communication module of the automated guided vehicle and a second communication module of the storage section exchange signals, power supply to the first electric conveyor is shut off in response to a first emergency stop switch of the automated guided vehicle, a first signal from the first communication module changes, and power supply to the second electric conveyor is shut off in response to a change in the first signal, and the power supply to the second electric conveyor is shut off in response to a second emergency stop switch of the storage section, a second signal from the second communication module changes, and the power supply to the second electric conveyor is shut off in response to the second signal.

Abstract: An oil-water separation device that efficiently separates and discharges oil from a mixed liquid includes a first chamber and a second chamber separated in a separation container, a first discharge port and a second discharge port formed in the first chamber and the second chamber, respectively, on a side surface of the separation container, a partition plate configured to separate the first chamber and the second chamber, the partition plate including a lower partition plate erected on a bottom surface of the separation container and an upper partition plate including a guide section that inclines from the first chamber toward the second chamber above the lower partition plate, and a communication section between the lower partition plate and the upper partition plate configured to connect the first chamber and the second chamber to each other.

Abstract: A machine tool including a machining device configured to perform machining on a workpiece in a machining chamber, a chip conveyor including a reservoir tank into which machining chips generated by workpiece machining in the machining device flow, together with a coolant, the chip conveyor being configured to discharge the machining chips to an outside of the machine tool, a coolant tank in which the chip conveyor is incorporated, the coolant tank being configured to accumulate the coolant flowing out of the reservoir tank, a sub-tank provided to surround an outer side of a discharge window for the coolant, the discharge window being formed on a side surface of the reservoir tank, and a machining chip removal section in which a magnetic separator made of a magnet is accommodated in the sub-tank and an opening portion configured to filter the coolant is provided around the magnetic separator.

Abstract: A determination device used in a shaping device in which a three-dimensional shaped object is shaped on an upper surface of a film adhered to a pallet, the determination device determining whether the film is adhered to the pallet based on imaging data of the pallet.

Abstract: A workpiece picking method for picking up workpieces supplied in a randomly placed state onto a supply stage larger than an imaging range corresponding to an angle of view of an imaging section, the workpiece picking method includes: (a) a step of performing picking processing of selecting a workpiece, and causing the picking section to pick up the workpiece; (b) a step of acquiring a remaining number of the workpieces remaining after the picking processing for each region; (c) a step of supplying a new workpiece onto the supply stage and loosening a lump of the workpieces, or performing loosening without supplying the new workpiece, based on the remaining number of the workpieces for each region; and (d) a step of performing the picking processing after the loosening operation in a largest-number region having a largest remaining number of the workpieces for each region acquired after the picking processing.

Abstract: A maintenance device is applied to a bulk feeder including a feeder main body section, a track member, a vibration device, and a cavity group, and includes an initialization section and a vibration force control section. When the use time of the bulk feeder elapses a predetermined time, the initialization section returns a supply component existing in the cavity group toward a receiving region, and sets the cavity group to an initialization state in which the supply component does not exist in the cavity group. The vibration force control section increases the vibration force to be applied by the vibration device to the track member in the initialization section as compared with a case where the supply component is returned from the supply region toward the receiving region in order to adjust the number of the supply components conveyed to the cavity group when a board product is produced.

Abstract: A bulk feeder includes a feeder main body, a track member having a reception region in which multiple components discharged from a component case accommodating the components in a bulk state are received, a supply region to which the components are supplied, and a conveyance path of the components from the reception region to the supply region, a vibration device configured to apply vibration to the track member such that the components on the conveyance path are conveyed, and a conveyance control section configured to execute a feeding operation of conveying the components on the conveyance path in a direction toward the supply region and a returning operation of conveying the components on the conveyance path in a direction toward the reception region.

Abstract: A component mounting machine includes a head configured to pick up the component, a pair of first axis linear guides configured to extend in a first axis direction, a beam member made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic or aramid fiber reinforced plastic in a rectangular tubular shape to extend in a second axis direction intersecting the first axis, having both end portions bridged between the pair of first axis linear guides, and configured to move in the first axis direction, and a pair of second axis linear guides disposed on the beam member to extend in the second axis direction and configured to guide the head movably in the second axis direction.