Patents by Inventor Tadashi Endo
Tadashi Endo 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).
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Patent number: 11457550Abstract: A component-mounting device includes a base, a board positioner which positions a board, a feeder carriage which is attachable to and detachable from the base, a part feeder which supplies a component, a mounting head which mounts the component on the board positioned by the board positioner, a nozzle replacement table which holds a replacement nozzle attached to or detached from the mounting head, a replacement table holder which holds the nozzle replacement table at a predetermined holding position within a movable range of the mounting head, and a placing table on which the nozzle replacement table is placed before the replacement table holder holds the nozzle replacement table. The component-mounting device delivers the nozzle replacement table between the replacement table holder and the placing table in a state where the feeder carriage is connected to the base.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi Endo, Yasuyuki Ishitani, Koji Watanabe
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Publication number: 20210187587Abstract: In order to manufacture a bottle can while eliminating the need for cleaning/drying after a mouth portion formation step, a bottle can manufacturing apparatus includes a necking processing part for carrying out a necking process while rotating a can body having a bottomed cylindrical shape around a rotational axis during formation of a mouth portion in the can; and a trimming processing part for subjecting the upper end portion of the can to slit processing and carrying out trimming while rotating the can while moving the can around the rotational axis. A plurality of necking processing parts are arranged in sequence, and the trimming processing part is arranged in sequence with at least one of the necking processing parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2018Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: TOYO SEIKAN CO., LTD.Inventors: Tadashi ENDO, Masaomi TAMURA, Yusaku SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20200396875Abstract: A component-mounting device includes a base, a board positioner which positions a board, a feeder carriage which is attachable to and detachable from the base, a part feeder which supplies a component, a mounting head which mounts the component on the board positioned by the board positioner, a nozzle replacement table which holds a replacement nozzle attached to or detached from the mounting head, a replacement table holder which holds the nozzle replacement table at a predetermined holding position within a movable range of the mounting head, and a placing table on which the nozzle replacement table is placed before the replacement table holder holds the nozzle replacement table. The component-mounting device delivers the nozzle replacement table between the replacement table holder and the placing table in a state where the feeder carriage is connected to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: TADASHI ENDO, YASUYUKI ISHITANI, KOJI WATANABE
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Patent number: 10765048Abstract: A component mounting system includes at least one component mounter that is provided with a first board transport mechanism, a second board transport mechanism, a first mounting mechanism and a second mounting mechanism that mount components on a board, and a plurality of carriages that is respectively installed on the side of the first board transport mechanism and on the side of the second board transport mechanism and holds a plurality of tape feeders (component supply devices). When changing a production board type of a first board transported by the first board transport mechanism, the components are supplied from the component supply device held by a first carriage, a second carriage, and a third carriage, and the components are mounted on a second board that does not change the production board type by the first mounting mechanism and the second mounting mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Ishimoto, Takuya Yamazaki, Tadashi Endo
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Patent number: 10617048Abstract: A component supplier of the present disclosure includes a magazine that stores pallets, a table that is provided in front of the magazine and is provided with a standby tables in multiple tiers in an up-and-down direction, a first lift that moves the table up and down, and a pallet supplier that is provided in front of the table and that includes a supply table which holds at least one of the pallets at a component supply position where the component is supplied. The table has a first placing and withdrawing unit that places and withdraws the pallet between the magazine and the standby tables and a second lift that moves the first placing and withdrawing unit up and down. The pallet supplier has a second placing and withdrawing unit that places and withdraws the pallet between the standby tables and the supply table.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Syozo Kadota, Hiroshi Matsumura, Katsuhiko Itoh, Makoto Nakashima, Tadashi Endo, Hiroyuki Fujiwara
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Publication number: 20180077830Abstract: A component mounting system includes at least one component mounter that is provided with a first board transport mechanism, a second board transport mechanism, a first mounting mechanism and a second mounting mechanism that mount components on a board, and a plurality of carriages that is respectively installed on the side of the first board transport mechanism and on the side of the second board transport mechanism and holds a plurality of tape feeders (component supply devices). When changing a production board type of a first board transported by the first board transport mechanism, the components are supplied from the component supply device held by a first carriage, a second carriage, and a third carriage, and the components are mounted on a second board that does not change the production board type by the first mounting mechanism and the second mounting mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: KENICHIRO ISHIMOTO, TAKUYA YAMAZAKI, TADASHI ENDO
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Patent number: 9848520Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes a carriage that holds a part feeder for supplying a component in a state of being attached to a base and attaches the part feeder to the base in a state of being coupled to the base; a mounting head that mounts the component to a substrate after the component is taken out of the part feeder held by the carriage coupled to the base through an opening formed between the base and a cover member formed so as to cover an upward side of the base; and a shutter moved from an opened position in which the opening is opened to a closed position in which the opening is closed when the carriage is separated from the base.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Syozo Kadota, Yasuyuki Ishitani, Tadashi Endo, Tomoo Hama, Toshihiko Nagaya, Hiroshi Okamura, Hiroyuki Fujiwara, Makoto Nakashima
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Publication number: 20170260032Abstract: A component supplier of the present disclosure includes a magazine that stores pallets, a table that is provided in front of the magazine and is provided with a standby tables in multiple tiers in an up-and-down direction, a first lift that moves the table up and down, and a pallet supplier that is provided in front of the table and that includes a supply table which holds at least one of the pallets at a component supply position where the component is supplied. The table has a first placing and withdrawing unit that places and withdraws the pallet between the magazine and the standby tables and a second lift that moves the first placing and withdrawing unit up and down. The pallet supplier has a second placing and withdrawing unit that places and withdraws the pallet between the standby tables and the supply table.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: SYOZO KADOTA, HIROSHI MATSUMURA, KATSUHIKO ITOH, MAKOTO NAKASHIMA, TADASHI ENDO, HIROYUKI FUJIWARA
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Patent number: 9560795Abstract: A bottom reception pin module 22 which is allowed to stand upright on a bottom reception base part 21 having a magnetic member 21a provided on an upper surface to support the substrate includes a base part 23 having a magnet member 26 built therein so as to be freely lifted and lowered and fixed to the bottom reception base part 21 by a magnetization force under a state that the magnet member 26 is lowered and a hollow shaft member 24 extended upward from the base part 23 and having an upper end of a top member 25 abutting on the lower surface of the substrate to support the substrate. By a vacuum suction from a suction hole 25c, the magnet member 26 is lowered and lifted to fix and unfix the base part 23 relative to the bottom reception base part 21.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shirou Yamashita, Tadashi Endo, Koji Kishita
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Patent number: 9497895Abstract: A pre-array temporary placement area A2 and a post-return temporary placement area A3 are set along with a lower receiving area A1. Temporary placement positions TP for lower receiving pins 22 in the pre-array temporary placement area A2 and the post-return temporary placement area A3 are previously assigned in consideration of requirements for preventing occurrence of interference between the lower receiving pins 22, which would otherwise occur during transfer of the lower receiving pins 22, and in accordance with array positions AP of the lower receiving pins 22 in the lower receiving area A1. Further, a transfer sequence is set in accordance with array positions AP.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shirou Yamashita, Hironori Kitashima, Tadashi Endo, Hiroshi Matsumura, Mie Morishima
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Patent number: 9332686Abstract: A lower supporting pin module 22 is given a shape having a contact surface 26a. On the occasion of position recognition for determining a position of a pin on the lower supporting pin module 22, an image of the lower supporting pin module 22 is captured, and the image is subjected to recognition processing, to thus detect an outer shape of an upper shaft 24B. Even when an extraneous matter on a downside surface of a substrate adheres to the contact surface 26a, the position of the lower supporting pin module 22 can be stably recognized with superior recognition precision.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shirou Yamashita, Tadashi Endo, Yasuichi Okada, Makoto Nakashima, Yuki Minamide
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Patent number: 9332654Abstract: A bottom reception pin module 22 which is allowed to stand upright on a bottom reception base part 21 having a magnetic member 21a provided on an upper surface to support a board includes a base part 23 having a magnet member 26 built therein so as to be freely lifted and lowered and fixed to the bottom reception base part 21 by a magnetization force under a state that the magnet member 26 is lowered and a hollow shaft member 24 extended upward from the base part 23 and having an upper end of a top member 25 abutting on the lower surface of the board to support the board. By a vacuum suction from a suction hole 25c, the magnet member 26 is lowered and lifted to fix and unfix the base part 23 relative to the bottom reception base part 21.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Shirou Yamashita, Tadashi Endo, Koji Kishita
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Publication number: 20160120037Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes a carriage that holds a part feeder for supplying a component in a state of being attached to a base and attaches the part feeder to the base in a state of being coupled to the base; a mounting head that mounts the component to a substrate after the component is taken out of the part feeder held by the carriage coupled to the base through an opening formed between the base and a cover member formed so as to cover an upward side of the base; and a shutter moved from an opened position in which the opening is opened to a closed position in which the opening is closed when the carriage is separated from the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2015Publication date: April 28, 2016Inventors: Syozo KADOTA, Yasuyuki ISHITANI, Tadashi ENDO, Tomoo HAMA, Toshihiko NAGAYA, Hiroshi OKAMURA, Hiroyuki FUJIWARA, Makoto NAKASHIMA
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Patent number: 9264389Abstract: An information processing apparatus stores capacity limit information of a mailbox assigned to a group, and stores information of a list of a plurality of e-mail addresses belonging to the group and set capacities of individual mailboxes corresponding to individual e-mail addresses, receives a value of a set capacity of a mailbox corresponding to an e-mail address stored in a storage unit from an administrator terminal, determines whether the set capacities of all mailboxes corresponding to the plurality of e-mail addresses that belong to the group do not exceed a capacity limit of the mailbox assigned to the group, if a set capacity is changed to the set capacity of the mailbox corresponding to the received e-mail address, and updates the value of the set capacity of the mailbox corresponding to the received e-mail address if it is determined that the set capacities do not exceed the capacity limit.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2012Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tadashi Endo, Motoshige Suzuki, Taro Tanaka
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Patent number: 8925190Abstract: It is intended to provide an electronic component mounting device and an operation performing method for mounting electronic components so that both the operation quality and the productivity can be improved. In operation performing procedures, when an electronic component belongs to the first division, an operating head is made to move up and down based on an approximate operation position height derived from an approximate curved surface of the top surface of a board which is calculated by using the height measurement result obtained by measuring a plurality of height measuring points on the surface of the board, and when the electronic component belongs to the second division, the operating head is made to move up and down based on an individual operation position height obtained by individually measuring the board height at the operation position.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tadashi Endo, Hiroshi Ogata, Tomohiro Kimura, Takaaki Yokoi
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Patent number: 8881385Abstract: A nozzle placement history data management method is accomplished by an electronic component mounting apparatus having an adsorption nozzle detachably placed on a mount head. The presence or absence of the adsorption nozzle is detected by a flow rate sensor. A board recognition camera provides identification information of the nozzle with the result that the nozzle placement history data can be updated, managed and updated.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Tadashi Endo, Hironori Kitashima
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Publication number: 20140201998Abstract: A pre-array temporary placement area A2 and a post-return temporary placement area A3 are set along with a lower receiving area A1. Temporary placement positions TP for lower receiving pins 22 in the pre-array temporary placement area A2 and the post-return temporary placement area A3 are previously assigned in consideration of requirements for preventing occurrence of interference between the lower receiving pins 22, which would otherwise occur during transfer of the lower receiving pins 22, and in accordance with array positions AP of the lower receiving pins 22 in the lower receiving area A1. Further, a transfer sequence is set in accordance with array positions AP.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shirou Yamashita, Hironori Kitashima, Tadashi Endo, Hiroshi Matsumura, Mie Morishima
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Publication number: 20130298382Abstract: A bottom reception pin module 22 which is allowed to stand upright on a bottom reception base part 21 having a magnetic member 21a provided on an upper surface to support the substrate includes a base part 23 having a magnet member 26 built therein so as to be freely lifted and lowered and fixed to the bottom reception base part 21 by a magnetization force under a state that the magnet member 26 is lowered and a hollow shaft member 24 extended upward from the base part 23 and having an upper end of a top member 25 abutting on the lower surface of the substrate to support the substrate. By a vacuum suction from a suction hole 25c, the magnet member 26 is lowered and lifted to fix and unfix the base part 23 relative to the bottom reception base part 21.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shirou Yamashita, Tadashi Endo, Koji Kishita
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Publication number: 20130291379Abstract: A bottom reception pin module 22 which is allowed to stand upright on a bottom reception base part 21 having a magnetic member 21a provided on an upper surface to support a board includes a base part 23 having a magnet member 26 built therein so as to be freely lifted and lowered and fixed to the bottom reception base part 21 by a magnetization force under a state that the magnet member 26 is lowered and a hollow shaft member 24 extended upward from the base part 23 and having an upper end of a top member 25 abutting on the lower surface of the board to support the board. By a vacuum suction from a suction hole 25c, the magnet member 26 is lowered and lifted to fix and unfix the base part 23 relative to the bottom reception base part 21.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shirou Yamashita, Tadashi Endo, Koji Kishita
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Publication number: 20130276281Abstract: A lower supporting pin module 22 is given a shape having a contact surface 26a. On the occasion of position recognition for determining a position of a pin on the lower supporting pin module 22, an image of the lower supporting pin module 22 is captured, and the image is subjected to recognition processing, to thus detect an outer shape of an upper shaft 24B. Even when an extraneous matter on a downside surface of a substrate adheres to the contact surface 26a, the position of the lower supporting pin module 22 can be stably recognized with superior recognition precision.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATIONInventors: Shirou Yamashita, Tadashi Endo, Yasuichi Okada, Makoto Nakashima, Yuki Minamide