Abstract: A portable terminal carried by an operator of a target apparatus includes a communicating device for conducting wireless communication and a first information acquiring device for acquiring first information related to the target apparatus from the target apparatus via the communicating device. The portable terminal also includes a second information sending device for sending second information to at least one external information terminal via the communicating device based on the first information. Further, the portable terminal includes a third information acquiring device for acquiring third information from at least one external information terminal responding to the second information via the communicating device and an information outputting device for outputting an information output based on the third information.

Abstract: A portable terminal carried by an operator of a target apparatus includes a communicating device for conducting wireless communication and a first information acquiring device for acquiring first information related to the target apparatus from the target apparatus via the communicating device. The portable terminal also includes a second information sending device for sending second information to at least one external information terminal via the communicating device based on the first information. Further, the portable terminal includes a third information acquiring device for acquiring third information from at least one external information terminal responding to the second information via the communicating device and an information outputting device for outputting an information output based on the third information.

Abstract: A portable terminal carried by an operator of a target apparatus (e.g., an electronic component mounting system or a mounting apparatus incorporated in such a system), comprises: communicating means for conducting wireless communication; first information acquiring means for acquiring first information related to the target apparatus from the target apparatus via the communicating means; second information sending means for sending second information to at least one external information terminals via the communicating means based on the first information; third information acquiring means for acquiring third information from at least one external information terminal responding to the second information via the communicating means; and information outputting means for outputting an information output based on the third information.

Abstract: A motion of a printed circuit board (1) is detected by an encoder (4) arranged aside a belt conveyer (2), and the encoder generates a detection signal (S3) which activates a timing signal generator unit (5) for generating an image pickup start timing signal which is fed to a time measuring unit (6) for measuring the image storing time which corresponds to the time interval of the image pickup start signal (S1). According to the image storing time, the image signal (S2) generated by the line CCD camera (3) is normalized by the normalizing calculation means (7), and thereafter, the mounting condition of the printed circuit board is judged by the image recognizing section (B) with the use of the image data (D) to thereby realize a simple and convenient mechanism at a low cost and at a high precision.

Abstract: A component mounting apparatus has an ultrasonic vibration generating apparatus which supplies ultrasonic vibration making a lead-free solder with no lead which is provided between an electronic component and a circuit board melted to the electronic component. The lead-free solder is melted by the ultrasonic vibration and then connects the electronic component on the circuit board. Accordingly, the ultrasonic vibration generating apparatus can heat only the lead-free solder partially, the electronic component and the circuit board can be joined without applying thermal influence to a whole of the electronic component and circuit board.

Abstract: A motion of a printed circuit board (1) is detected by an encoder (4) arranged aside a belt conveyer (2), and the encoder generates a detection signal (S.sub.3) which activates a timing signal generator unit (5) for generating an image pickup start timing signal which is fed to a time measuring unit (6) for measuring the image storing time which corresponds to the time interval of the image pickup start signal (S1). According to the image storing time, the image signal (S2) generated by the line CCD camera (3) is normalized by the normalizing calculation means (7), and thereafter, the mounting condition of the printed circuit board is judged by the image recognizing section (B) with the use of the image data (D) to thereby realize a simple and convenient mechanism at a low cost and at a high precision.

Abstract: A component mounting apparatus and method for mounting components on to-be-mounted positions of works, includes a carrying device for continuously and successively carrying the works in a working area, and a first component-mounting device for picking up one component from component supply units in a first component supply section and mounting the picked-up component on the to-be-mounted position of one of the works being continuously and successively carried in the work area.

Abstract: A mounting state of a component mounted on a printed circuit board with adhesive is inspected by an apparatus which includes an image pick-up unit for picking up in colors an image of the board after the component is mounted, a color extracting part for discriminating an adhesive portion of the image based on a predetermined color distribution of the adhesive and then extracting the adhesive portion as extracted data, a cutting part for setting a window frame for a to-be-inspected portion in the image of the board relative to the extracted data so as to detect bulging of the adhesive, and cutting out data within the window frame, and a deciding part for deciding, based on the cut data, a presence/absence of the bulging of the adhesive from a size or an area of a portion in the window frame which shows a color within the color distribution of the adhesive.

Abstract: A parts supply device includes a mounting device for mounting a unit accommodating electronic parts on a parts mounting machine, a parts feeding device for sequentially feeding the parts held by the unit to a predetermined removing position according to an operation of the machine for removing the parts from the parts supply device, a storing device for storing data as to the number of parts held by the unit, and a calculating device for rewriting the parts number data stored in the storing device according to the operation of the machine for removing the parts from the supply device.

Abstract: A part mounting apparatus which includes a part holding/transfer device which holds the part at a part supply position for transfer up to a predetermined part mounting position for mounting, a recognizing device for recognizing a shape of the part held by the part holding/transfer device, and an inclined mirror device for inputting into a recognizing device, an image of the shape of the part in a direction perpendicular to a direction of an optical axis of the recognizing device.

Abstract: A part supply arrangement which includes a part transporting table device and a part feeding table device of an automatic part mounting unit which are respectively constituted by first and second stationary portions of a brushless DC linear motor, a carrier device on which a part unit to be transported is placed, and which is constituted by a movable portion of the brushless DC linear motor so as to be transported along a transport path, and a change-over device for changing-over connection of the stationary portions with respect to the transport path for the carrier device.