Patents by Inventor Akinobu UESUGI

Akinobu UESUGI 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).

  • Publication number: 20220207077
    Abstract: An image search device includes an image storage configured to store a plurality of images captured in a mounting process to mount a component on a board, and a controller configured to retrieve an image according to a search condition from the plurality of images stored in the image storage. The controller is configured to perform a control to retrieve an image from the plurality of images in the image storage according to a first search condition set by a user, and display, together with a selected image selected by the user from the retrieved image, a related image retrieved according to a second search condition different from the first search condition based on information on the selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi MATSUSHITA, Akinobu UESUGI
  • Patent number: 11096320
    Abstract: A plurality of nozzles are arranged at intervals of a center-to-center distance along a circumferential orbit around the predetermined rotation axis integrally. The nozzle that is positioned at the working position is changed by rotating the plurality of nozzles around the predetermined rotation axis. At that time, regardless of the manner in which the nozzle positioned at the working position is changed, the nozzle approaching the working position, and the nozzle moving away from the working position, move within an imaging target range having a width smaller than twice the center-to-center distance with the working position as the center along the circumferential orbit. Then, a camera images the nozzle which is moving within the imaging target range. Thus, it is not necessary to temporarily stop the nozzle for imaging, and as a result, imaging of the nozzles is performed efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi Onishi, Akinobu Uesugi
  • Publication number: 20190029150
    Abstract: A plurality of nozzles are arranged at intervals of a center-to-center distance along a circumferential orbit around the predetermined rotation axis integrally. The nozzle that is positioned at the working position is changed by rotating the plurality of nozzles around the predetermined rotation axis. At that time, regardless of the manner in which the nozzle positioned at the working position is changed, the nozzle approaching the working position, and the nozzle moving away from the working position, move within an imaging target range having a width smaller than twice the center-to-center distance with the working position as the center along the circumferential orbit. Then, a camera images the nozzle which is moving within the imaging target range. Thus, it is not necessary to temporarily stop the nozzle for imaging, and as a result, imaging of the nozzles is performed efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tadashi ONISHI, Akinobu UESUGI
  • Patent number: 9326434
    Abstract: A parts feeding device which is equipped in a surface mounting machine body includes a drive unit for feeding a parts feeding tape which houses parts, and a control unit for controlling the drive unit. The control unit includes a detection unit for detecting execution of work for removing the parts feeding device from the surface mounting machine body, and a pullback execution unit for causing the drive unit to execute a process of pulling back the parts feeding tape, which has become empty as a result of feeding the parts, when the execution of work for removing the parts feeding device is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akinobu Uesugi, Naoki Hanamura, Kenichi Indo, Toshimichi Satou, Toshiyuki Kusunoki, Tomoharu Kurayama
  • Publication number: 20130326867
    Abstract: A parts feeding device which is equipped in a surface mounting machine body includes a drive unit for feeding a parts feeding tape which houses parts, and a control unit for controlling the drive unit. The control unit includes a detection unit for detecting execution of work for removing the parts feeding device from the surface mounting machine body, and a pullback execution unit for causing the drive unit to execute a process of pulling back the parts feeding tape, which has become empty as a result of feeding the parts, when the execution of work for removing the parts feeding device is detected by the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinobu UESUGI, Naoki HANAMURA, Kenichi INDO, Toshimichi SATOU, Toshiyuki KUSUNOKI, Tomoharu KURAYAMA