Patents by Inventor Hiroki Sagara

Hiroki Sagara 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: 20190064784
    Abstract: A production system includes a production line for producing a product by connecting a plurality of production facilities having working units for doing work on a transported workpiece; a gap time calculator that calculates a plurality of gap times respectively corresponding to the plurality of the production facilities until a next workpiece is transported from an upstream production facility to each of the plurality of the production facilities based on a production status of each of the plurality of the production facilities; and a preparation operation determination unit that determines an automatic preparation operation capable of being executed in each of the plurality of the production facilities based on the plurality of the gap times. Each of the plurality of the production facilities executes the determined automatic preparation operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: ISATO IWATA, TAKUYA YAMAZAKI, NAOFUMI IKUTA, HIROKI SAGARA
  • Patent number: 10149420
    Abstract: A component mounting method is provided in a component mounting apparatus that mounts a component onto a board using a plurality of pieces of production data linked to component data. The method includes executing, when the component data is changed, a simulation of a production cycle time based on the production data, and comparing a simulation result of the production cycle time after change of the component data with a production cycle time or a simulation result of the production cycle time before change of the component data, and outputting a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isato Iwata, Hirokazu Takehara, Takuya Yamazaki, Hiroki Sagara
  • Patent number: 9997502
    Abstract: There is provided a component arrangement determination method, in a component mounting apparatus including a plurality of component supply units for supplying components, for determining arrangement of the component supply units used for production of a plurality of types of component mounted boards. The method includes specifying a production frequency of each of the plurality of types of component mounted boards for a predetermined period of time, grouping the plurality of types of component mounted boards into a plurality of groups capable of being produced without changing the arrangement of the component supply units based on the production frequency, and determining arrangement, in the component mounting apparatus, of the component supply units for supplying components necessary for production of types of component mounted boards that belong to each group of the plurality of groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sagara, Takuya Yamazaki, Hirokazu Takehara, Isato Iwata
  • Publication number: 20180089860
    Abstract: There is provided a component management support system which supports put-in and out of a component to and from a component storage place, the system including a imaging unit that images information; a support information display processor that generates a superimposed composite image by superimposing the support information for supporting the put-in and out of the component to and from the component storage place on an image obtained by imaging the component storage place or a field of view of the worker; and a display that displays the superimposed composite image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: NAOFUMI IKUTA, TAKUYA YAMAZAKI, HIROKI SAGARA, ISATO IWATA
  • Publication number: 20180086592
    Abstract: A feeder arrangement support system for supporting an arrangement of a feeder on a feeder arrangement unit includes a imaging unit that images information, a processor that superimposes arrangement support information for supporting the feeder arrangement on the feeder arrangement unit on an image obtained by imaging the feeder arrangement unit or a field of view of a worker, to generate a superimposed composite image, and a display that displays the superimposed composite image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: NAOFUMI IKUTA, TAKUYA YAMAZAKI, HIROKI SAGARA, ISATO IWATA
  • Patent number: 9918391
    Abstract: An electronic component mounting system includes a component information change history storage unit that stores component information including operating parameters for numerical determination of an operation mode of an electronic component mounting operation unit and a change history of the component information, a mounting error recorder that detects a mounting error occurring during an electronic component mounting operation and records mounting error information relating to an occurrence situation of the mounting error, and a display unit that displays a transition of the mounting error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamazaki, Hiroki Sagara, Hirokazu Takehara
  • Patent number: 9918390
    Abstract: An electronic component mounting system includes a component information change history storage unit that stores component information including operating parameters for numerical determination of an operation mode of an electronic component mounting operation unit and a change history of the component information, a mounting error recorder that detects a mounting error occurring during an electronic component mounting operation and records mounting error information relating to an occurrence situation of the mounting error, and a display unit that displays a transition of the mounting error on a screen of the display unit and reads past component information for designated date and time based on the designated date and time so that a correlation between change in the component information and the mounting error can be checked with ease and the component information including the operating parameter can be restored to a proper state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamazaki, Hiroki Sagara, Hirokazu Takehara
  • Patent number: 9811078
    Abstract: A component mounting system derives work instruction information defining setup changeover work necessary to change an arrangement state of parts feeders from a current arrangement state to a first arrangement state for producing a first substrate type based on current feeder arrangement information corresponding to the current arrangement state and first feeder arrangement information corresponding to the first arrangement state. The work instruction information includes a plurality of pieces of unit work information. Each of the pieces of the unit work information includes kind information indicating a kind of execution operation and feeder state information indicating states before and after execution of work on the parts feeder targeted in the setup changeover work. The pieces of unit work information are displayed on the display screen so as to be arranged in work sequence to be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sagara, Takuya Yamazaki, Hirokazu Takehara
  • Publication number: 20160231727
    Abstract: Information about allocation states of parts feeders in a component feeding portion which is currently attached to a component mounting apparatus and information about allocation states of the parts feeders in a component feeding portion which has been detached from the component mounting apparatus are acquired. Work instruction information is derived. The work instruction information defines required setup change work so that allocation states of parts feeders in one of component feeding portions are changed over from allocation states to first allocation states corresponding to a first product type. The derived work instruction information is displayed on a display screen. The work instruction information includes a plurality of unit work information pieces. The plurality of unit work information pieces are displayed on the display screen so that the unit work information pieces are arranged in accordance with a work sequence order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventor: Hiroki Sagara
  • Publication number: 20160116898
    Abstract: In a production management method of a substrate in a component mounting system having plural component mounting lines configured to include plural component mounting apparatuses, reading production data of an interrupt type substrate; collecting equipment data of each of the component mounting lines; and determining at least one component mounting line to produce the interrupt type substrate based on the read production data of the interrupt type substrate and the collected equipment data of each of the component mounting lines are performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Isato IWATA, Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hirokazu TAKEHARA, Hiroki SAGARA
  • Publication number: 20160048127
    Abstract: There is provided a component arrangement determination method, in a component mounting apparatus including a plurality of component supply units for supplying components, for determining arrangement of the component supply units used for production of a plurality of types of component mounted boards. The method includes specifying a production frequency of each of the plurality of types of component mounted boards for a predetermined period of time, grouping the plurality of types of component mounted boards into a plurality of groups capable of being produced without changing the arrangement of the component supply units based on the production frequency, and determining arrangement, in the component mounting apparatus, of the component supply units for supplying components necessary for production of types of component mounted boards that belong to each group of the plurality of groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroki SAGARA, Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hirokazu TAKEHARA, Isato IWATA
  • Publication number: 20160021761
    Abstract: A component mounting method is provided in a component mounting apparatus that mounts a component onto a board using a plurality of pieces of production data linked to component data. The method includes executing, when the component data is changed, a simulation of a production cycle time based on the production data, and comparing a simulation result of the production cycle time after change of the component data with a production cycle time or a simulation result of the production cycle time before change of the component data, and outputting a comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Isato IWATA, Hirokazu TAKEHARA, Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hiroki SAGARA
  • Publication number: 20160021803
    Abstract: A component mounting method is provided in a component mounting apparatus that mounts a component onto a board using a plurality of pieces of production data linked to component data. The method includes executing, when the component data is changed, a simulation of a production cycle time based on the production data, and making an improvement plan for the production cycle time as a target based on a simulation result after change of the component data, and outputting the improvement plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Isato IWATA, Hirokazu TAKEHARA, Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hiroki SAGARA
  • Publication number: 20150107088
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a component mounting line including series-connected component mounting machines. In the component mounting system, workers execute jobs for equipment operation of the component mounting line. The component mounting system includes: a skill level storage unit which stores worker data in which a worker ID for identifying each of the workers is associated with a skill level of the corresponding worker for execution of each of the jobs; a history data storage unit which stores execution results of the jobs executed by the workers as job history data for each of the workers; and a worker data update unit which updates the skill level of each of the workers in the worker data based on a result of determination extracted from the job history data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroki SAGARA, Takuya YAMAZAKI, Hirokazu TAKEHARA
  • Publication number: 20150039115
    Abstract: A component mounting system derives work instruction information defining setup changeover work necessary to change an arrangement state of parts feeders from a current arrangement state to a first arrangement state for producing a first substrate type based on current feeder arrangement information corresponding to the current arrangement state and first feeder arrangement information corresponding to the first arrangement state. The work instruction information includes a plurality of pieces of unit work information. Each of the pieces of the unit work information includes kind information indicating a kind of execution operation and feeder state information indicating states before and after execution of work on the parts feeder targeted in the setup changeover work. The pieces of unit work information are displayed on the display screen so as to be arranged in work sequence to be executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroki Sagara, Takuya Yamazaki, Hirokazu Takehara