Patents by Inventor Michiaki Mawatari

Michiaki Mawatari 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).

  • Patent number: 10874039
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a board transport line for transporting a board from an upstream to a downstream and a work station disposed in the board transport line and performing component mounting work. The board transport line transports a board introduced in the downstream of the work station to the work station, and transports the board from the work station to the downstream when mounting of a component on the board is completed in the work station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joy Poothokaran, Kazuyuki Nagase, Michiaki Mawatari
  • Publication number: 20190174660
    Abstract: A component mounting system includes a board transport line for transporting a board from an upstream to a downstream and a work station disposed in the board transport line and performing component mounting work. The board transport line transports a board introduced in the downstream of the work station to the work station, and transports the board from the work station to the downstream when mounting of a component on the board is completed in the work station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: JOY POOTHOKARAN, KAZUYUKI NAGASE, MICHIAKI MAWATARI
  • Patent number: 10291569
    Abstract: A message transfer apparatus in an electronic component mounting system including: a message registration section that registers a message; a message storing section that stores the registered message; a message output section that outputs the stored message to a display section; a message notification timing setting section that sets timings where the message is to be notified in accordance with timings for an operator to be shifted with another; a message-to-be-notified extraction section that extracts a message to be notified from the message storing section at a timing where the message is to be confirmed; and an unconfirmed message notification section that causes a notification section to carry out a notification regarding presence of an unconfirmed message when there is any message which has not been output among the extracted message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michiaki Mawatari
  • Patent number: 9943020
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes transport mechanisms that transport boards, component supply sections, mounting heads, and a control unit that controls them based on mounting data. Each transport mechanism includes an upstream side operation area and a downstream side operation area. When the mounting data corresponds to an independent mounting mode in which each of the mounting heads is used to mount a component only onto a board on a corresponding mechanism, the control unit performs a control so that the upstream side operation area is used as a mounting area. When the mounting data corresponds to an alternating mounting mode in which both mounting heads are used to mount the components sequentially onto a board that is first carried into the downstream side operation area, the control unit performs a control so that the upstream side operation area is used as a standby area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michiaki Mawatari
  • Publication number: 20160081242
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes transport mechanisms that transport boards, component supply sections, mounting heads, and a control unit that controls them based on mounting data. Each transport mechanism includes an upstream side operation area and a downstream side operation area. When the mounting data corresponds to an independent mounting mode in which each of the mounting heads is used to mount a component only onto a board on a corresponding mechanism, the control unit performs a control so that the upstream side operation area is used as a mounting area. When the mounting data corresponds to an alternating mounting mode in which both mounting heads are used to mount the components sequentially onto a board that is first carried into the downstream side operation area, the control unit performs a control so that the upstream side operation area is used as a standby area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventor: Michiaki MAWATARI
  • Patent number: 9271417
    Abstract: When a connected position detecting unit detects that a connected position of a tape reaches a predetermined position in the tape passage, head-feeding of an electronic component provided in a head of the connected new tape is provided. In the head-feeding, a tape feeder feeds the tape such that the electronic component in the head of the new tape is located in a component pickup port. When the connected position detecting unit detects that the connected position of the tape reaches the predetermined position in the tape passage, a mounting head picks up the electronic component from the new tape fed by the head feeding control unit and is mounted on a new board positioned by a board conveying path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teppei Kawaguchi, Michiaki Mawatari
  • Patent number: 9161486
    Abstract: It is an objective to provide an electronic parts mounting apparatus and an electronic parts mounting method for making it possible to mount various types of electronic parts having equivalent electric characteristics on a single substrate. Before a mount head 15 starts mounting LED parts 4 on substrates 3 positioned by substrate conveyance paths 12, the number of LED parts 4 still remaining on a plurality of tape feeders 13 is compared, according to the type of the LED part 4, with target number of LED parts 4 to be mounted on the substrates 3. When the number of remaining LED parts 4 of at least one type becomes smaller than the target number of LED parts 4 to be mounted, the mount head 15 is deactivated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Teppei Kawaguchi, Michiaki Mawatari
  • Patent number: 8997338
    Abstract: A tray feeder includes tray supply mechanisms and arranged in parallel. Each of the tray supply mechanisms has a function of retrieving a tray from a tray housing portion by a tray retrieving unit, and transferring the pallet up to a component pickup position set in the vicinity of a height at the upper end of the tray housing portion. A lock state of a door by a door lock mechanism is released only in a state where the tray retrieving unit is located at the component pickup position and blocks an interior of the tray feeder from a head transfer space in which the mounting head transfers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michiaki Mawatari, Hiroshi Ota
  • Publication number: 20150012601
    Abstract: A message transfer apparatus in an electronic component mounting system including: a message registration section that registers a message; a message storing section that stores the registered message; a message output section that outputs the stored message to a display section; a message notification timing setting section that sets timings where the message is to be notified in accordance with timings for an operator to be shifted with another; a message-to-be-notified extraction section that extracts a message to be notified from the message storing section at a timing where the message is to be confirmed; and an unconfirmed message notification section that causes a notification section to carry out a notification regarding presence of an unconfirmed message when there is any message which has not been output among the extracted message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Michiaki MAWATARI
  • Patent number: 8712572
    Abstract: A challenge to be met by the invention is to provide an electronic component mounting machine that makes up an electronic component mounting line and that standardizes an operation input method, to thus enable lessening of work load on an operator during performance of operation input action, and an operation instruction method for use with the electronic component mounting machine. In electronic component mounting machines that make it possible for a single machine to perform a plurality of types of works by replacement of a work head to be built into a common platform according to a type of work, a production start button to a model change button are provided as common individual input parts in a basic operation command input part of a display panel of an operation unit regardless of a work type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Higashi, Masahiro Kihara, Kazuo Okamoto, Hidehiko Watanabe, Kenichi Kaida, Hideki Sumi, Michiaki Mawatari
  • Publication number: 20130167361
    Abstract: When a connected position detecting unit detects that a connected position of a tape reaches a predetermined position in the tape passage, head-feeding of an electronic component provided in a head of the connected new tape is provided. In the head-feeding, a tape feeder feeds the tape such that the electronic component in the head of the new tape is located in a component pickup port. When the connected position detecting unit detects that the connected position of the tape reaches the predetermined position in the tape passage, a mounting head picks up the electronic component from the new tape fed by the head feeding control unit and is mounted on a new board positioned by a board conveying path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teppei Kawaguchi, Michiaki Mawatari
  • Publication number: 20130160282
    Abstract: It is an objective to provide an electronic parts mounting apparatus and an electronic parts mounting method for making it possible to mount various types of electronic parts having equivalent electric characteristics on a single substrate. Before a mount head 15 starts mounting LED parts 4 on substrates 3 positioned by substrate conveyance paths 12, the number of LED parts 4 still remaining on a plurality of tape feeders 13 is compared, according to the type of the LED part 4, with target number of LED parts 4 to be mounted on the substrates 3. When the number of remaining LED parts 4 of at least one type becomes smaller than the target number of LED parts 4 to be mounted, the mount head 15 is deactivated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teppei Kawaguchi, Michiaki Mawatari
  • Publication number: 20130086804
    Abstract: A tray feeder includes tray supply mechanisms and arranged in parallel. Each of the tray supply mechanisms has a function of retrieving a tray from a tray housing portion by a tray retrieving unit, and transferring the pallet up to a component pickup position set in the vicinity of a height at the upper end of the tray housing portion. A lock state of a door by a door lock mechanism is released only in a state where the tray retrieving unit is located at the component pickup position and blocks an interior of the tray feeder from a head transfer space in which the mounting head transfers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michiaki Mawatari, Hiroshi Ota
  • Publication number: 20110184548
    Abstract: A challenge to be met by the invention is to provide an electronic component mounting machine that makes up an electronic component mounting line and that standardizes an operation input method, to thus enable lessening of work load on an operator during performance of operation input action, and an operation instruction method for use with the electronic component mounting machine. In electronic component mounting machines that make it possible for a single machine to perform a plurality of types of works by replacement of a work head to be built into a common platform according to a type of work, a production start button (42a) to a model change button (42d) are provided as common individual input parts in a basic operation command input part (42) of a display panel (4a) of an operation unit regardless of a work type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Higashi, Masahiro Kihara, Kazuo Okamoto, Hidehiko Watanabe, Kenichi Kaida, Hideki Sumi, Michiaki Mawatari