Patents by Inventor Hidetoshi Kawai

Hidetoshi Kawai 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: 20220095500
    Abstract: A component mounting machine includes a mark imaging camera that images a board mark of a circuit board and has a function of identifying an identification target, such as a character attached to an upper surface of a component supplied by a component supply device. An illumination light source illuminates the identification target on the upper surface of the component imaged by the mark imaging camera and is attached to a lower portion of an electric component holding frame provided to protrude to the side of the mounting head. As the identification target on the upper surface of the component, which is illuminated by the illumination light source from obliquely above, is imaged by the mark imaging camera from above and the image is processed, the identification target on the upper surface of the component is identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke YAMAKAGE, Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Patent number: 11272650
    Abstract: A component mounting machine including a mounting head configured to pick up and mount a component; a component camera to image the component from below the mounting head; a board camera to image the circuit board from above; an imaging position memory to memorize imaging position coordinates during imaging, based on images acquired by the component camera; a relative position memory to memorize relative position coordinates that are a relative position of the mounting head with respect to the board camera; and a correction necessity determining section to perform imaging of the mounting head by the component camera when the moving device has arrived at the imaging position coordinates, and determine whether it is necessary to correct the relative position coordinates memorized in the relative position memory, based on a position of the mounting head understood from the images acquired from the imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 11240949
    Abstract: Component mounting line includes multiple component mounting machines arranged along a conveyance direction of a board, feeder storage container that stores multiple feeders that are attachable and detachable to component mounting machine, and exchanging robot capable of exchanging feeder between feeder storage container and each of the component mounting machines, in which feeder storage container is installed in the same arrangement as the multiple component mounting machines, and exchanging robot moves along the conveyance direction of the board and exchanges feeder. Accordingly, regardless of which of the component mounting machines feeder is used in, replenishment and collection may be performed in feeder storage container, so that an operator can easily replenish and collect feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kondo, Jun Iisaka, Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 11172601
    Abstract: A component mounter including a mounting head having multiple holding bodies, a revolving mechanism configured to revolve the multiple holding bodies along a revolution trajectory, a rotating mechanism configured to cause the multiple holding bodies to rotate on their axes in synchronism with each other, a detection section configured to detect a component located in one or more component detection positions which are different from the component pickup positions on the revolution trajectory from a side thereof; and a control section. The control section performs component pickup processing for causing the mounting head to cause at least one of the holding bodies located in the component pickup position to pick up and hold the component and holding body revolving processing for causing the revolving mechanism to locate the holding body that does not hold the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Ito, Jun Iisaka, Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20210301071
    Abstract: A resin composition for a printed wiring board, including: a phenolic compound (A); a maleimide compound (B); an epoxy compound (C); a cyclic carbodiimide compound (D); an inorganic filler (E); and a curing accelerator (F), wherein a content of the inorganic filler (E) is 100 to 250 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of a resin solid content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Shohei YAMAGUCHI, Katsuya TOMIZAWA, Norihiro SHIDA, Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20210289679
    Abstract: A component mounting system that includes a component mounter in which multiple component supply units are detachably arranged in a supply area and mounts components on a board based on a job. The system performs a preparatory arrangement control for dividing the component supply units required for the job into multiple, and controlling the unit exchange device to make an arrangement of the component supply units in each group match an arrangement order in the supply area, and a supply arrangement control for controlling the unit exchange device to automatically exchange the component supply units, and to arrange the component supply units required for the job after switching in the supply area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20210261722
    Abstract: A curable composition containing an alkenyl phenol A, an epoxy-modified silicone B, and an epoxy compound C other than the epoxy-modified silicone B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Katsuya TOMIZAWA, Mayumi KIKUCHI, Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Patent number: 11050912
    Abstract: An illumination device configured to illuminate an imaging target, an image of which is to be captured by a camera, provided with a current adjusting device configured to adjust a current flowing through the LEDs of four LED-mounted boards on which many of the LEDs are mounted, wherein the four LED-mounted boards are arranged in a four-sided shape centered around the light axis of the camera as viewed from the imaging target, and each of the LED-mounted boards is inclined at a specified angle so that the LEDs of the LED-mounted boards face the imaging target. The current adjusting device is configured to divide an LED-mounted area of each of the LED-mounted boards into multiple illumination areas and to individually adjust the current flowing to the LEDs of each of the LED-mounted boards for each of the multiple illumination areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yamakage, Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20210168978
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes multiple component mounting lines where multiple component mounters and a feeder storage are aligned along a board conveyance direction, a feeder exchange device configured to move along the board conveyance direction to exchange the feeder between the component mounter and the feeder storage of the component mounting line in charge, and a memory device. The feeder exchange device is configured to store an in-process feeder in the feeder storage of the component mounting line in charge, when it is determined, based on production information and feeder information, that there is the in-process feeder that was used in the component mounting line in charge and is scheduled to be used in another component mounting line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20210168976
    Abstract: A component mounting includes an external monitoring camera that images an outside work area that is an area outside of the component mounting machine at which an operator performs work with respect to the component mounting machine. The outside work area of the component mounting machine includes at least an area where a feeder is set, and a monitoring target is at least a state during and after completion of setting the feeder on the component mounting machine and during and after completion of setting component supply tape on the feeder. By looking at a recorded image or a real time image displayed on a display device by using the external monitoring camera to capture an outside work area of the component mounting machine, it is possible to check the state of the monitoring target on which an operator performed work in the outside work area of the component mounter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidetoshi KAWAI, Fumitaka MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20210147614
    Abstract: A thermosetting composition including at least a thermosetting compound, the thermosetting composition satisfying relationships represented by formulas (i) and (ii) below: 0.80?b/a?0.98??(i), and 0.05?c/a?0.30??(ii), wherein a, b, and c represent storage moduli (unit: GPa) at 30° C., 100° C., and 260° C., respectively, of a cured product formed by curing a prepreg obtained by impregnating or coating a base material with the thermosetting composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI GAS CHEMICAL COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki TADOKORO, Shohei YAMAGUCHI, Katsuya TOMIZAWA, Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Patent number: 10973160
    Abstract: A component mounting station is divided into two component mounting areas in a board conveyance direction according to the size of circuit boards used in two types of production that are performed in order, and the area in which a backup pin is arranged on a backup plate is divided into two pin arrangement areas corresponding to the two component mounting areas. The quantity of backup pins necessary to support the component mounting board are arranged in a predetermined arrangement pattern, the circuit boards transported using the conveyor are stopped in the component mounting areas according to the type of component mounting board produced, the backup plate is lifted up, and the circuit boards are clamped by the clamp member, and the circuit boards supported by the backup pins in the pin arrangement areas are positioned below the circuit boards, and components are mounted on the circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20210092885
    Abstract: An automatic exchanging device moves along a front face of component mounting line in an arrangement direction of multiple component mounters to automatically exchange a feeder with respect to feeder setting section of each component mounter. A production management computer of the component mounting line or control device of each component mounter monitors an arrangement status of the feeder set in the feeder setting section of each component mounter, and when it is determined that an empty space of the feeder setting section of any one of the component mounters is equal to or larger than a predetermined value based on a monitoring result, controls an operation of the automatic exchanging device, such that an automatically exchangeable unit is set in the empty space of the feeder setting section of the component mounter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Patent number: 10945360
    Abstract: A component mounting positional deviation amount measurement unit is set in a feeder setting section of a component mounting machine so as to be exchangeable with a cassette-type feeder, and includes measurement nozzle placement sections in which measurement nozzles exchangeably held in a mounting head of the component mounting machine are placed; measurement component placement sections in which measurement components are placed; and a measurement mounting table on which a measurement fiducial mark is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroyoshi Sugita, Jun Iisaka, Hidetoshi Kawai, Hidetoshi Ito
  • Publication number: 20210068321
    Abstract: A component mounting system including multiple component mounting devices to collect components from feeders set at multiple feeder holding sections and mount the components on a board, the multiple feeder holding sections being provided on each of the multiple component mounting devices to removably hold the feeders; and a feeder exchanging device to move along a line along which the multiple component mounting devices are arranged and exchange feeders with respect to each of the component mounting devices. The component mounting system acquires a type and arrangement of each of the feeders set on the multiple component mounting devices, determines whether each of the feeders is set at a predetermined appropriate position, and upon determining that there is a feeder that is not set at the appropriate position, uses the feeder exchanging device to reset the feeder that is not set at the appropriate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20210015012
    Abstract: Component mounting line includes multiple component mounting machines arranged along a conveyance direction of a board, feeder storage container that stores multiple feeders that are attachable and detachable to component mounting machine, and exchanging robot capable of exchanging feeder between feeder storage container and each of the component mounting machines, in which feeder storage container is installed in the same arrangement as the multiple component mounting machines, and exchanging robot moves along the conveyance direction of the board and exchanges feeder. Accordingly, regardless of which of the component mounting machines feeder is used in, replenishment and collection may be performed in feeder storage container, so that an operator can easily replenish and collect feeder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro KONDO, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20200413579
    Abstract: A mounting device includes a mounting head, having a rotating body, which turns multiple pickup members by rotating the rotating body, in which the rotating body holds multiple pickup members, each of which being configured to pick up a component, the multiple pickup members being disposed at predetermined intervals along a predetermined circumference of the rotating body, and executes a forward rotation pickup processing of causing the pickup members to pick up the components from a supply section for supplying the components, and rotates the rotating body forwards, and when at least one of the pickup members is vacant resulting from an error of not holding the component, executes a backward rotation pickup processing which includes a processing of causing the rotating body to rotate backwards and a processing of causing the vacant pickup member to pick up the component from the supply section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi KAWAI
  • Patent number: 10820461
    Abstract: In a component mounting machine, before the suction nozzle held by the rotary head is automatically exchanged, the nozzle ID codes of all suction nozzles arranged on the nozzle station are continuously read at a high speed and stored in association with the position of each suction nozzle. Sequentially imaging the nozzle ID code display section of each suction nozzle of each column is performed without stopping the mark imaging camera while moving the camera in an arrangement direction of the suction nozzle of each column of the nozzle station. The movement direction of the camera is reversed each time the last imaging operation of one column is completed and the camera is moved to imaging an adjacent column and the nozzle ID code of each suction nozzle of each column read at the image processing is stored in the storage in association with the position of each suction nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 10820459
    Abstract: Component mounting line includes multiple component mounting machines arranged along a conveyance direction of a board, feeder storage container that stores multiple feeders that are attachable and detachable to component mounting machine, and exchanging robot capable of exchanging feeder between feeder storage container and each of the component mounting machines, in which feeder storage container is installed in the same arrangement as the multiple component mounting machines, and exchanging robot moves along the conveyance direction of the board and exchanges feeder. Accordingly, regardless of which of the component mounting machines feeder is used in, replenishment and collection may be performed in feeder storage container, so that an operator can easily replenish and collect feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahiro Kondo, Jun Iisaka, Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Publication number: 20200267878
    Abstract: A component mounting machine including a component supply device to supply a component to a supply position; a component transfer device to pick up the component from the supply position and mount the component on a board; a component detecting section to detect whether the component is present at the supply position before or while the component is being picked up by the component mounting tool; a holding detecting section to detect whether the component mounting tool is holding the component following pickup; and a retry performing section to determine whether to perform a retry operation of attempting to pick up the component again using the component mounting tool based on a detection result of the component detecting section and a detection result of the holding detecting section, and to perform the retry operation in accordance with a result of the determining of whether to perform the retry operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rie KITO, Hidetoshi KAWAI, Norio HOSOI, Mizuho NOZAWA, Jun IISAKA, Hidetoshi ITO, Shingo FUJIMURA, Kenzo ISHIKAWA, Yusuke YAMAKAGE