Patents by Inventor Hidehiro Saho
Hidehiro Saho 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: 8240028Abstract: In an electronic component mounting apparatus, nozzle mechanisms are formed slender by providing shaft-type linear motors vertically upward of nozzle units and providing linear encoders vertically upward of the shaft-type linear motors, respectively. Thus, it becomes possible to reduce the occupational area of the individual nozzle mechanisms in XY directions (horizontal direction), thereby allowing the pitch of neighboring nozzles to be narrowed. It also becomes achievable to keep up with increasingly narrow mounting pitches of electronic components on boards of increasingly smaller-size and higher-integration.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kazunori Kanai, Hidehiro Saho, Chikara Takata, Satoshi Kawaguchi
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Patent number: 8091216Abstract: An electric parts mounting apparatus includes rotary type multi-nozzle mounting heads. Each of the mounting heads has a plurality of suction nozzles disposed in a radial manner on a rotor mechanism, which rotates around a rotation shaft. A parts mount mechanism is configured such that the axial direction of the rotation shaft coincides with an arrangement direction of tape feeders. A shaft-to-shaft distance of the suction nozzles is set to be plural times as large as a pitch of the feeder arrangement. In a pick up process, a plurality of electronic parts can be simultaneously picked up from the tape feeders. In a parts mounting process, while one of the mounting heads mounts the part, the other mounting head can complete a nozzle changeover operation such that the suction nozzle holding an electronic part to be mounted next is moved to an operation position.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2004Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Hidehiro Saho
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Patent number: 7805831Abstract: A carrier tape package 20 is used in an electronic components placing apparatus for feeding electronic components by a tape feeder, and has a carrier tape 22 housed in a wound state on a tape reel 21. In the carrier tape package 20, a data storage unit 23, in which an IC tag 25 having carrier tape information containing identification information of electronic components P held in the carrier tape 22 is held in a holder 24, is attached to the tape reel 21. At the instant when the carrier tape 22 is mounted in the tape feeder, the carrier tape information is read out by a reader/writer belonging to the tape feeder from the data storage unit 23 mounted on the leading end portion of the tape feeder.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Hidehiro Saho, Hiroyoshi Nishida
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Patent number: 7752748Abstract: A method for detecting a condition of a nozzle member of a multi-nozzle type component mounting head, in which it is determined that a nozzle is pressed against a load cell when the difference between a measured vertical position of the nozzle and a reference positional information of the nozzle is equal to or greater than a determined value and the measured vertical position of the nozzle is at a lower level position than the reference positional information, and when it is determined that the nozzle is pressed against the load cell, measuring the output value of the load cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2005Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Noboru Yamasaki, Kazunori Kanai, Hidehiro Saho, Akira Noudo
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Patent number: 7731034Abstract: In a carrier tape for supplying an electronic part to an electronic part mounting apparatus for taking out the electronic part from a tape feeder to mount to a board, a tail side connecting portion having a cutout portion is provided to a tail side of the carrier tape mounted to the tape feeder, a front side connecting portion having a chipped portion is provided to a head side of the carrier tape to be used newly, respectively, and in tape splicing operation when a reel is interchanged, the cutout portion is fitted to the chipped portion and adhesive tapes are pasted thereon from two upper and lower faces thereof. Thereby, the tail side connecting portion and the head side connecting portion can be positioned in a longitudinal direction, a width direction and a thickness direction of the tape and held to each other and can efficiently be connected without using an exclusive connecting jig.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2003Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventor: Hidehiro Saho
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Patent number: 7684061Abstract: An electronic component mounting apparatus includes a beam projector for projecting a laser beam, a beam receiver which is placed in opposition to the beam projector and which receives a laser beam projected from the beam projector, a light-reception-sensitivity setting unit for adjusting light-reception sensitivity of the beam receiver, a projection-side orifice provided in the beam projector to narrow a projection spot diameter of the laser beam, and a reception-side orifice provided in the beam receiver to narrow a light-reception spot diameter, where the light-reception sensitivity of the beam receiver is improved. As a result, an electronic component mounting apparatus capable of accurately detecting height size of small components by using a relatively inexpensive photoelectric sensor can be provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2006Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Masanori Hiyoshi, Hidehiro Saho, Noboru Yamasaki, Tadashi Endo
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Publication number: 20090229117Abstract: A carrier tape package 20 is used in an electronic components placing apparatus for feeding electronic components by a tape feeder, and has a carrier tape 22 housed in a wound state on a tape reel 21. In the carrier tape package 20, a data storage unit 23, in which an IC tag 25 having carrier tape information containing identification information of electronic components P held in the carrier tape 22 is held in a holder 24, is attached to the tape reel 21. At the instant when the carrier tape 22 is mounted in the tape feeder, the carrier tape information is read out by a reader/writer belonging to the tape feeder from the data storage unit 23 mounted on the leading end portion of the tape feeder.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2006Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LtdInventors: Hidehiro Saho, Hiroyoshi Nishida
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Publication number: 20090225304Abstract: An electronic component mounting apparatus includes a beam projector for projecting a laser beam, a beam receiver which is placed in opposition to the beam projector and which receives a laser beam projected from the beam projector, a light-reception-sensitivity setting unit for adjusting light-reception sensitivity of the beam receiver, a projection-side orifice provided in the beam projector to narrow a projection spot diameter of the laser beam, and a reception-side orifice provided in the beam receiver to narrow a light-reception spot diameter, where the light-reception sensitivity of the beam receiver is improved. As a result, an electronic component mounting apparatus capable of accurately detecting height size of small components by using a relatively inexpensive photoelectric sensor can be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: September 10, 2009Inventors: Masanori Hiyoshi, Hidehiro Saho, Noboru Yamasaki, Tadashi Endo
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Publication number: 20090119904Abstract: An apparatus for mounting components provided with a multi-nozzle type component mounting head for moving vertically includes a plurality of movable parts linearly arranged; a plurality of nozzles respectively connected to tip parts of the movable parts; a height detector for detecting positions of the plurality of movable parts; a light projector provided on an extension of an arrangement of the plurality of nozzles; a light receiver provided at a position opposed to the light projector, wherein all of the plurality of nozzles are made to stand-by on an upper side of an optical axis L from the light projector, an arbitrary one of the nozzles is made to descend, and at a timing when the light receiver detects that light shielding of the light from the light projector is switched by the tip part of the nozzle, a vertical position of the movable part is measured by the height detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2005Publication date: May 14, 2009Inventors: Noboru Yamasaki, Kazunori Kanai, Hidehiro Saho, Akira Noudo
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Publication number: 20090056114Abstract: In an electronic component mounting apparatus, nozzle mechanisms are formed slender by providing shaft-type linear motors vertically upward of nozzle units and providing linear encoders vertical upward of the shaft-type linear motors, respectively. Thus, it becomes implementable to reduce the occupational area of the individual nozzle mechanisms in XY directions (horizontal direction), allowing the pitch of neighboring nozzles to be narrowed. It also becomes achievable to keep up with increasingly narrowing mounting pitches of electronic components in boards of increasingly smaller-size and higher-integration.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Kazunori Kanai, Hidehiro Saho, Chikara Takata, Satoshi Kawaguchi
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Publication number: 20080309260Abstract: A shaft type linear motor including a stator in which plural hollow cylindrical coils are disposed so that the center through holes thereof are arranged linearly so as to form a shaft insertion hole; a driving shaft including permanent magnets, the same magnetic poles, the north or south magnetic poles, being disposed in the axial direction so as to be opposed to each other, and movably inserted into the stator; sensor units disposed in the axial direction of the stator so as to have a predetermined clearance therebetween and equipped with plural magnetic pole detection sensors that detect the magnetic field intensities of the permanent magnets and output magnetic field intensity signals; and a detection section for receiving the magnetic field intensity signals output from the magnetic pole detection sensors and for detecting the position of the driving shaft on the basis of the plural magnetic field intensity signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2005Publication date: December 18, 2008Inventors: Kazunori Kanai, Hidehiro Saho, Noboru Yamasaki, Chikara Takata, Seiichi Matsuo, Yoshikazu Higuchi
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Patent number: 6857546Abstract: In a double type tape feeder in which two tape feed mechanisms that pitch-feed carrier tapes holding electronic components are arranged in parallel and two carrier tapes can be simultaneously supplied, sprockets in the tape pitch feed mechanisms are arranged so that they hold a shaft axis in common, and directions of respective rotary shafts of motors are coincided with each other toward the shaft axis, so that the motors are arranged in radial pattern. Hereby, an overlap of widthwise sizes of the motors in plane arrangement is permitted. Therefore, the whole width size is reduced and a compact tape feeder is realized.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hidehiro Saho
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Publication number: 20040139602Abstract: In an electronic parts mounting apparatus provided with rotary type multi-nozzle type mounting heads 10A, 10B in each of which a plurality of suction nozzles 20 are disposed in a radial manner on a rotor mechanism 18 which rotates around a rotation shaft 18a, a parts mount mechanism 8 is configured in a manner that the axial direction of the rotation shaft 18a is made coincide with the arrangement direction of tape feeders 5 in a parts supply portion 4 and a shaft-to-shaft distance D of the suction nozzles 20 is set to be plural times as large as the pitch p of the feeder arrangement. Thus, in a pick-up process, a plurality of electronic parts can be simultaneously picked up from the tape feeders 5. In a parts mounting process, while one of the mounting heads performs the part mounting operation, the other mounting head can complete a nozzle change-over operation in a manner that the suction nozzle holding an electronic part to be mounted next is moved to a operation position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2004Publication date: July 22, 2004Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hidehiro Saho
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Publication number: 20040094451Abstract: In a carrier tape for supplying an electronic part to an electronic part mounting apparatus for taking out the electronic part from a tape feeder to mount to a board, a tail side connecting portion having a cutout portion is provided to a tail side of the carrier tape mounted to the tape feeder, a front side connecting portion having a chipped portion is provided to a head side of the carrier tape to be used newly, respectively, and in tape splicing operation when a reel is interchanged, the cutout portion is fitted to the chipped portion and adhesive tapes are pasted thereon from two upper and lower faces thereof. Thereby, the tail side connecting portion and the head side connecting portion can be positioned in a longitudinal direction, a width direction and a thickness direction of the tape and held to each other and can efficiently be connected without using an exclusive connecting jig.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2003Publication date: May 20, 2004Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hidehiro Saho
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Publication number: 20030230617Abstract: In a double type tape feeder in which two tape feed mechanisms that pitch-feed carrier tapes holding electronic components are arranged in parallel and two carrier tapes can be simultaneously supplied, sprockets in the tape pitch feed mechanisms are arranged so that they hold a shaft axis in common, and directions of respective rotary shafts of motors are coincided with each other toward the shaft axis, so that the motors are arranged in radial pattern. Hereby, an overlap of widthwise sizes of the motors in plane arrangement is permitted. Therefore, the whole width size is reduced and a compact tape feeder is realized.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: December 18, 2003Applicant: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hidehiro Saho
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Patent number: 6210081Abstract: A parts supply apparatus for moving individual electric parts from a bulk supply of electric parts to an outlet where a part mounting apparatus picks each part up. A parts guide path is located below the bulk supply so that the parts are moved therethrough by force of their own weight. The center of gravity of the parts supply apparatus is preferably located relatively far away from the outlet, so that vibration of the bulk supply of parts to move them into the parts guide path does not cause significant vibration of the outlet and interference with a secure mounting of the parts onto a part mounting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidehiro Saho, Yuji Tanaka
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Patent number: 6098838Abstract: In a bulk feeder, chips, stored randomly in a storage chamber, are fed one by one into a pipe extending vertically downwardly from the bottom of the storage chamber, and are further sequentially fed to a pickup position. In order to prevent the incomplete feeding of the chips into the pipe, an outer tube is provided in a manner to insert the pipe into the outer tube, and two projections are formed around an outer peripheral surface of the outer tube, and a pin is received between the two projections. The pin is rotated by a motor in eccentric relation to a horizontal axis of rotation of this motor, and the outer tube, while rotating, moves upward and downward, so that an upper end portion of the outer tube projects upwardly beyond an upper end of the pipe. As a result, the outer tube breaks into and disperses the group of chips residing above the pipe, so that the chips can be fed one by one into the pipe, and then the chips are fed sequentially to the pickup position.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidehiro Saho, Yuji Tanaka