Patents by Inventor Minoru Murakami

Minoru Murakami 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: 10737484
    Abstract: A screen printing apparatus includes: a mask guide; a mask moving mechanism; and a squeegeeing mechanism. The mask guide is provided with a mask standby position, a printing-job performing position, and a mask shelter position in this order from a first end to a second end of the mask guide. The mask moving mechanism moves the used mask positioned at the printing-job performing position to the mask shelter position such that it is possible to pick up the used mask from the second end of the mask guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Masayuki Mantani, Minoru Murakami
  • Patent number: 10688779
    Abstract: A screen printing apparatus includes an inspection region setter and an operation stop controller. The inspection region setter sets an inspection region in an inspection plane that intersects with a moving path of a mask until the mask positioned at a printing-job performing position moves to a mask shelter position by the moving mechanism. In addition, the inspection region setter excludes a passing region of the mask from the inspection region while the mask to be positioned at the mask shelter position passes over the inspection plane from the printing-job performing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamamoto, Minoru Murakami, Shuichi Tomeoku, Takaaki Sakaue, Takashi Katsuki
  • Patent number: 10542649
    Abstract: A component mounting related system is provided with a first component mounting related apparatus, a second component mounting related apparatus, an electric power source provided in the first component mounting related apparatus, a first power transmission line provided in the first component mounting related apparatus, a power transmission connector, and a second power transmission line. The electric power source supplies an electric power for actuating the first component mounting related apparatus. The first power transmission line transmits the electric power in the first component mounting related apparatus. The power transmission connector transmits the electric power transmitted by the first power transmission line to the second component mounting related apparatus. The second power transmission line transmit, in the second component mounting related apparatus, the electric power supplied from the first component mounting related apparatus through the power transmission connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masayuki Mantani, Minoru Murakami
  • Publication number: 20180229495
    Abstract: A screen printing apparatus includes an inspection region setter and an operation stop controller. The inspection region setter sets an inspection region in an inspection plane that intersects with a moving path of a mask until the mask positioned at a printing-job performing position moves to a mask shelter position by the moving mechanism. In addition, the inspection region setter excludes a passing region of the mask from the inspection region while the mask to be positioned at the mask shelter position passes over the inspection plane from the printing-job performing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO YAMAMOTO, MINORU MURAKAMI, SHUICHI TOMEOKU, TAKAAKI SAKAUE, TAKASHI KATSUKI
  • Publication number: 20180215137
    Abstract: A screen printing apparatus includes: a mask guide; a mask moving mechanism; and a squeegeeing mechanism. The mask guide is provided with a mask standby position, a printing-job performing position, and a mask shelter position in this order from a first end to a second end of the mask guide. The mask moving mechanism moves the used mask positioned at the printing-job performing position to the mask shelter position such that it is possible to pick up the used mask from the second end of the mask guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: TAKAHIRO YAMAMOTO, MASAYUKI MANTANI, MINORU MURAKAMI
  • Patent number: 9498945
    Abstract: A component mounting line has a screen printing apparatus and component mounting apparatuses. Each component mounting apparatus includes a first substrate carrying lane and a second substrate carrying lane, carries a first type substrate on which a first pattern has been printed in the first substrate carrying lane, performs a component mounting-relevant operation on the first type substrate, carries a second type substrate on which a second pattern has been printed in the second substrate carrying lane, and performs a component mounting-relevant operation on the second type substrate. The screen printing apparatus selects a type of the substrate to be carried in depending on whether a substrate is carried in the second component mounting apparatus downstream from the screen printing apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Murakami, Masayuki Mantani, Toshiyuki Murakami, Takashi Katsuki, Takashi Yazawa
  • Patent number: 9420702
    Abstract: A component mounting line has a screen printing apparatus and component mounting apparatuses. The screen printing apparatus carries in substrates based on substrate carrying-in order data which is determined so that alternate carrying-in in which a first type substrate and a second type substrate are alternately carried in and continuous carrying-in in which the first type substrate or the second type substrate which has a shorter line tact time is continuously carried in are mixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Minoru Murakami, Masayuki Mantani, Toshiyuki Murakami, Takashi Katsuki, Takashi Yazawa
  • Patent number: 9375915
    Abstract: In a screen printing that shifts squeegees in a horizontal direction while abutting the squeegees against a mask, and slides the squeegees on the mask, and scrapes up the paste on the mask so that opening portions are filled with the paste to transfer the paste onto the substrate, a larger amount of paste Ps is supplied to regions in which the paste is scraped up by the end portions of the squeegee than a region in which the paste is scraped up by a center portion of the squeegee on the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michinori Tomomatsu, Toshiyuki Murakami, Hiroki Kobayashi, Minoru Murakami, Akira Maeda
  • Patent number: 9375914
    Abstract: A paste supply apparatus includes a plurality of paste pots each including a bottomed tubular container storing paste and a movable inner lid provided in the tubular container and having a through hole formed in a center portion thereof, and a pot holder which holds the paste pots so as to be horizontally arranged along an arrangement direction such that the through hole of each of the paste pots is directed downward and downward movement of the inner lid thereof is regulated. The paste supply apparatus further includes a pot holder moving device which moves the pot holder along the arrangement direction and selectively positions one of the plurality of paste pots at an ejection position, and a paste ejecting device which presses the tubular container of the paste pot positioned at the ejection position and which ejects the paste in the tubular container from the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Masayuki Mantani, Hideki Uchida, Minoru Murakami
  • Patent number: 9352547
    Abstract: A paste supply apparatus includes a plurality of paste pots each including a tubular container which stores paste and which includes a bottom portion provided with a through hole and a movable inner lid provided in the tubular container, and a pot holder which holds the paste pots so as to be horizontally arranged along an arrangement direction such that the through hole of each of the paste pots is directed downward and downward movement of the tubular container thereof is regulated. The paste supply apparatus further includes a pot holder moving device which moves the pot holder along the arrangement direction and selectively positions one of the plurality of paste pots at an ejection position, and a paste ejecting device which presses the inner lid of the paste pot positioned at the ejection position and which ejects the paste in the tubular container from the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Masayuki Mantani, Hideki Uchida, Minoru Murakami
  • Publication number: 20160021804
    Abstract: A component mounting related system is provided with a first component mounting related apparatus, a second component mounting related apparatus, an electric power source provided in the first component mounting related apparatus, a first power transmission line provided in the first component mounting related apparatus, a power transmission connector, and a second power transmission line. The electric power source supplies an electric power for actuating the first component mounting related apparatus. The first power transmission line transmits the electric power in the first component mounting related apparatus. The power transmission connector transmits the electric power transmitted by the first power transmission line to the second component mounting related apparatus. The second power transmission line transmit, in the second component mounting related apparatus, the electric power supplied from the first component mounting related apparatus through the power transmission connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki MANTANI, Minoru MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20160021802
    Abstract: A component mounting related system is provided with a control unit that outputs a first control signal for controlling a first component mounting related apparatus and a second control signal for controlling a second component mounting related apparatus, a first signal transmission line that transmits the first control signal and the second control signal in the first component mounting related apparatus, and a signal transmission connector that outputs the second control signal transmitted by the first signal transmission line to the second component mounting related apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Masayuki MANTANI, Minoru MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150239229
    Abstract: A component mounting line has a screen printing apparatus and component mounting apparatuses. Each component mounting apparatus includes a first substrate carrying lane and a second substrate carrying lane, carries a first type substrate on which a first pattern has been printed in the first substrate carrying lane, performs a component mounting-relevant operation on the first type substrate, carries a second type substrate on which a second pattern has been printed in the second substrate carrying lane, and performs a component mounting-relevant operation on the second type substrate. The screen printing apparatus selects a type of the substrate to be carried in depending on whether a substrate is carried in the second component mounting apparatus downstream from the screen printing apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Minoru MURAKAMI, Masayuki MANTANI, Toshiyuki MURAKAMI, Takashi KATSUKI, Takashi YAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20150245500
    Abstract: A component mounting line has a screen printing apparatus and component mounting apparatuses. The screen printing apparatus carries in substrates based on substrate carrying-in order data which is determined so that alternate carrying-in in which a first type substrate and a second type substrate are alternately carried in and continuous carrying-in in which the first type substrate or the second type substrate which has a shorter line tact time is continuously carried in are mixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Minoru MURAKAMI, Masayuki MANTANI, Toshiyuki MURAKAMI, Takashi KATSUKI, Takashi YAZAWA
  • Patent number: 9084385
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide an electronic component mounting device and a work method of the electronic component mounting device, capable of ensuring safety of an operator who accesses a work line through a door portion, and avoiding reduction of workability. A space defined by a base (11) and a cover member (14) is partitioned by a partition member (15) to define a plurality of work line storing spaces (SP1). A plurality of work lines (12) are stored in the respective work line storing spaces (SP1) individually. When any of a plurality of door portions (14a) provided in the cover member (14) so as to allow an access to an inside of the respective work line storing spaces (SP1) is opened, an operation of a work line (12) stored in a work line storing space (SP1) accessible through the opened door portion (14a) is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichi Miyahara, Nobuhiro Nakai, Minoru Murakami, Takahiro Fukagawa, Takashi Yazawa, Kimiyuki Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9027478
    Abstract: An imaging part in a screen printing device which images a board and a screen mask includes a single camera which is disposed with a posture of horizontally facing towards an incidence optical axis, a half mirror which makes an imaging light, which is incident through a lower imaging optical axis, to be incident on a camera, and a mirror which makes an imaging light, which is incident through an upper imaging optical axis, to pass through the half mirror and to be incident on the camera, and further has an upper illuminating part and a lower illuminating part which individually illuminate respective imaging objects. Imaging light is taken in the camera in a state that the upper illuminating part and the lower illuminating part are individually operated in a mask imaging step and a board imaging step, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Murakami, Minoru Murakami, Yasuichi Okada
  • Patent number: 8950321
    Abstract: At the two ends of a pair of clamping members (9a) which sandwich and clamp a board (10) from the Y direction, mask supporting members (9b) forming a rectangle frame are disposed, and a screen mask (12) is supported from below by the mask supporting members (9b) in a state that the board (10) abuts against the under surface of the screen mask (12). A downwards bending of the screen mask (12) can be prevented, and the time and labor of maintenance can be decreased by preventing the deposits of paste on the screen mask (12) that occur due to the bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Michinori Tomomatsu, Yuuji Ootake, Toshiyuki Murakami, Minoru Murakami, Akira Maeda
  • Patent number: 8939072
    Abstract: A challenge to be met by the present invention is to provide a screen printer arranged so as to be able to readily perform both replacement of squeegees and operation for filling a paste feed syringe with paste. A paste feed syringe (14) is configured so as to be able to sway around an axial line (41) that downwardly extends from a squeegee base (30) with respect to a horizontal line (HL) parallel to a direction of reciprocal movement of the squeegee base (30), and also be able to change its position between a paste feed attitude having an imaginary extension within a vertical plane at an oblique angle such that a nozzle (14a) provided at a lower end of the paste feed syringe comes to a position immediately below squeegees (15) and a storage attitude which is turned from the paste feed attitude through about 90 degrees around an axial line (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seikou Abe, Minoru Murakami, Isao Horie
  • Publication number: 20140366755
    Abstract: A paste supply apparatus includes a plurality of paste pots each including a tubular container which stores paste and which includes a bottom portion provided with a through hole and a movable inner lid provided in the tubular container, and a pot holder which holds the paste pots so as to be horizontally arranged along an arrangement direction such that the through hole of each of the paste pots is directed downward and downward movement of the tubular container thereof is regulated. The paste supply apparatus further includes a pot holder moving device which moves the pot holder along the arrangement direction and selectively positions one of the plurality of paste pots at an ejection position, and a paste ejecting device which presses the inner lid of the paste pot positioned at the ejection position and which ejects the paste in the tubular container from the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Masayuki Mantani, Hideki Uchida, Minoru Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140366754
    Abstract: A paste supply apparatus includes a plurality of paste pots each including a bottomed tubular container storing paste and a movable inner lid provided in the tubular container and having a through hole formed in a center portion thereof, and a pot holder which holds the paste pots so as to be horizontally arranged along an arrangement direction such that the through hole of each of the paste pots is directed downward and downward movement of the inner lid thereof is regulated. The paste supply apparatus further includes a pot holder moving device which moves the pot holder along the arrangement direction and selectively positions one of the plurality of paste pots at an ejection position, and a paste ejecting device which presses the tubular container of the paste pot positioned at the ejection position and which ejects the paste in the tubular container from the through hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Masayuki Mantani, Hideki Uchida, Minoru Murakami