Patents by Inventor Yoichi Matsushita

Yoichi Matsushita 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: 12041725
    Abstract: The attachment possible period during which the attachment operation of the component supply reel can be performed is predicted for each of the tape feeders equipped in the component mounting apparatus, and the attachment time indicating a timing of the attachment operation is set to overlap the attachment possible periods of the candidate feeders, out of the tape feeders. Therefore, a frequency of the component replenishment operation of the operator can be suppressed. Further, the execution mode of the attachment operation for the candidate feeder corresponding to the attachment time is determined based on the number of the components planned to be supplied in accordance with the production planning by the candidate feeder. Therefore, a number of the components suitable for the production planning of the components-mounted boards can be replenished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuichi Matsushita, Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11968786
    Abstract: A component replenishment management system includes an emergency device extraction unit, an emergency time setting unit, a replenishable device identification unit, and a replenishment target extraction unit. The emergency device extraction unit extracts, as first and second emergency devices, top two component supply devices having highest degree of emergency for performing the component replenishment work. The emergency time setting unit sets an emergency time zone from a first emergency time for the component replenishment work for the first emergency device to a second emergency time for the component replenishment work for the second emergency device. The replenishable device identification unit identifies, as a replenishable device, a component supply device that can be replenished with a component storage member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20240124234
    Abstract: In a component warehousing support apparatus, the stock quantity which is the number of target components to be warehoused, which are actually stored in each of component storages, is acquired for each of the plurality of component storages. Then, the warehousing destination candidate information indicating a candidate of the warehousing destination of the target component among the plurality of component storages is calculated on the basis of the stock quantity of the target component in each of the plurality of the component storages. Therefore, a candidate of the warehousing destination in accordance with the stock quantity of the target component in each component storage can be confirmed with reference to the warehousing destination candidate information. As a result, it becomes possible to easily determine an appropriate component storage as the warehousing destination of the component from among the plurality of component storages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20240015942
    Abstract: The component storehouse storing the tray in the tray storage rack (tray storage part) is notified of the magazine preparation command indicating the component to be held in the slot of the magazine. In response to this, the component storehouse includes the working robot (work implementation part) that conducts a predetermined work including the tray extraction work, the tray placement work, and the pallet insertion work. The working robot prepares the magazine where the component indicated by the magazine preparation command is held in the slot. In this way, it becomes possible to prepare the magazine automatically where the pallet is inserted in the slot with the tray housing the component placed on the pallet, thereby allowing manpower-saving in component replenishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi MATSUSHITA, Yoshihiro OTAKA
  • Publication number: 20230371222
    Abstract: An automatic feeder arrangement support system is in a component mounting line including a component mounting device that includes a component supply device and a mounting head configured to pick up components from component supply tapes and mount the components on a substrate. The automatic feeder arrangement support system includes a component shortage time calculation section and a component shortage detection section. The component shortage time calculation section is configured to calculate component shortage time data based on production plan data and substrate data related to substrate. The component shortage detection section is configured to perform a simulation and detect whether component shortage occurs or not based on the component shortage time data and workable time data for a replenishment work of manual feeders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi MATSUSHITA, Yoshihiro OTAKA
  • Patent number: 11778797
    Abstract: In a component replenishment management system, a component supply monitoring unit estimates replenishable time, which represents time until component replenishment work becomes possible, for each of component supply devices. A work determination unit determines whether or not the component replenishment work can be actually performed at a timing at which replenishment component type information is acquired by an external input and output unit. In a case where the work determination unit determines that the component replenishment work cannot be performed, a work guidance unit generates performing process guidance information. The performing process guidance information is information for guiding a performing process based on the replenishable time of the component replenishment work.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11653486
    Abstract: In a component replenishment management system, a setting unit sets work allowable time of an operator in a work area, a replenishment target identification unit identifies component replenishment target devices which are targets of component replenishment work by the operator, and a work progress determination unit determines a progress state of the component replenishment work. Then, an extraction unit extracts the component replenishment target devices for which the component replenishment work is to be performed before work time in the work area by the operator reaches the work allowable time among the component replenishment target devices whose progress state of the component replenishment work is work not performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11622487
    Abstract: A component shortage detection device detects a component shortage of a tape feeder installed in a component mounting device. The component shortage detection device includes a sensor, configured to detect the tape, and provided at a position that is a midpoint of a tape transportation path of the tape feeder and upstream of a component extraction position by a component mounting head in a tape transportation direction. The component shortage detection device further includes a residual quantity calculation unit configured to calculate a component residual quantity of the tape during a mounting operation; and a determination unit configured to determine whether a component shortage occurs on a basis of output information from the sensor and the component residual quantity when the head fails in extraction of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11516952
    Abstract: A tape erroneous mounting detection system includes sensors provided to the plurality of tape feeders, a reader configured to read identification information from a recording part which is provided to a reel, and a memory part configured to store part verification information. The tape erroneous mounting detection system also includes a part verification part configured to determine whether or not the tape is mounted on the tape feeder at the set position, and to perform verification updating processing, and a tape erroneous mounting detection part configured to perform erroneous mounting detection processing where the tape erroneous mounting detection part identifies the tape feeder on which the tape is mounted based on the tape presence or absence information and the output from the sensor, and the tape erroneous mounting detection part detects that the tape mounted on the tape feeder is erroneously mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11497153
    Abstract: A component supply device includes a plurality of kinds of tape feeders capable of mounting a first component storing tape by which supplying of components is performed precedingly, and a second component storing tape by which supplying of components is performed succeedingly; a component sensor configured to detect runout of the components in the first component storing tape; and a control unit configured to control a tape feeding operation. A specified discharge length by which the first component storing tape is discharged at the time of occurrence of the runout of the components is preliminarily set for each kind of the tape feeder. The control unit is configured to make the tape feeder perform a tape feeding operation for feeding the first component storing tape by the specified discharge length when the component sensor detects the runout of the components in the first component storing tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Katsuyuki Amma, Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11490552
    Abstract: A part verification system includes sensors for detecting tapes, a reader which reads identification information from a recording part provided to a reel, and a memory part which stores part verification information. The system further includes a part verification part which performs verification updating processing for determining whether or not the tape is mounted on the tape feeder at the set position corresponding to the identification information, and updating tape presence or absence information at the set position when the tape is mounted, a tape monitoring part for determining whether or not the tape is mounted with respect to each tape feeder during a period which differs from a period where the verification updating processing is performed, and a notification part which performs notification to request reading of the identification information relating to the tape from the recording part when the tape is mounted on the tape feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11426773
    Abstract: A load port includes a dock plate on which a container storing a substrate is placed, a port plate, a moving mechanism configured to move the dock plate between a dock position and an undock position, a gas supply nozzle unit provided in the dock plate and configured to contact a bottom surface of the container placed on the dock plate and supply a gas into the container, and a pressing unit provided above the dock plate and configured to press the container placed on the dock plate downward. The pressing unit includes a contact member brought into contact with the container placed on the dock plate, and a driving mechanism configured to move the contact member between a first position apart from the container and a second position in contact with the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HIRATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11399451
    Abstract: In a component refill management system, a refill specifying unit specifies a component supply device which is to be refilled with a new reel. The refill specifying unit includes a first specifying unit, a second specifying unit, and a third specifying unit. The first specifying unit specifies refillable time intervals of new reels with the time intervals being associated with each of the component supply devices. The second specifying unit recognizes, in each of the refillable time intervals, a first refillable time interval having an earliest second time at which a sum of residual components reaches a predetermined value, and specifies a component supply device, which is associated with the first refillable time interval, as a first component supply device. The third specifying unit specifies a component supply device, which can be refilled with a reel within the first refillable time interval, as a second component supply device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Matsushita, Masaki Higashino
  • Patent number: 11350551
    Abstract: A work management system includes a part resupply management unit that manages a plan of part resupply work and a collection management unit that collects waste material data and manages the collection work to be executed in future. The part resupply management unit includes a resupply target specifying unit that specifies a resupply time zone and a target mounting machine, and a work planning unit that extracts a plurality of the target mounting machines with the resupply time zones overlapping each other and that creates a work plan to make a patrol of the target mounting machines and execute the resupply work at the target mounting machines. When a need of the collection work to be executed has arisen at the target mounting machine, the work planning unit creates a work plan to execute both the resupply work and the collection work for the target mounting machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11304348
    Abstract: An informing device includes a loading section feeding automatically a subsequent component tape that is preset in the tape feeder when the component tape that is being fed by the feeding device has no component. A controller is configured to determine whether the component tape that is being fed by the feeding device and the subsequent component tape are present in the tape feeder or only one of the component tape and the subsequent component tape is present in the tape feeder based on a management table, and configured to control a display section to inform that the subsequent component tape can be preset in the tape feeder before the subsequent component tape is preset when only one of the component tapes is present in the tape feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi Matsushita
  • Patent number: 11295259
    Abstract: This work plan management system is provided with a component replenishment management unit for managing a plan for component replenishment work to be performed on component supply devices; and an ancillary work management unit for managing a plan for ancillary work. The component replenishment management unit includes a component supply monitoring unit and a replenishment target specifying unit. The component supply monitoring unit specifies, for each of the component supply devices, replenishment possibility time windows during which component replenishment work is possible. The replenishment target specifying unit recognizes overlapping replenishment time windows in which the individual replenishment possibility time windows overlap, and specifies component supply devices on which it is possible to perform component replenishment work during the overlapping replenishment time windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoichi Matsushita, Kotaro Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20210329821
    Abstract: In a component replenishment management system, a setting unit sets work allowable time of an operator in a work area, a replenishment target identification unit identifies component replenishment target devices which are targets of component replenishment work by the operator, and a work progress determination unit determines a progress state of the component replenishment work. Then, an extraction unit extracts the component replenishment target devices for which the component replenishment work is to be performed before work time in the work area by the operator reaches the work allowable time among the component replenishment target devices whose progress state of the component replenishment work is work not performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoichi MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 11141884
    Abstract: The measured value of a rubber temperature parameter that is related to the temperature of a rubber material to be kneaded by a mixing machine 2 and measured values of correlation parameters that have a correlation with a change in the value of the rubber temperature parameter are acquired. The measured values are assigned to an operational control parameter-calculation model equation, which is modified from a rubber temperature parameter-calculation model equation including operational control parameters and the correlation parameters, and a constant and coefficients of the operational control parameters and the correlation parameters are calculated using a machine learning algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES MACHINERY SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Matsushita, Ryota Soga, Shinichi Noguchi, Koji Shintani
  • Publication number: 20210291236
    Abstract: A load port includes a dock plate on which a container storing a substrate is placed, a port plate, a moving mechanism configured to move the dock plate between a dock position and an undock position, a gas supply nozzle unit provided in the dock plate and configured to contact a bottom surface of the container placed on the dock plate and supply a gas into the container, and a pressing unit provided above the dock plate and configured to press the container placed on the dock plate downward. The pressing unit includes a contact member brought into contact with the container placed on the dock plate, and a driving mechanism configured to move the contact member between a first position apart from the container and a second position in contact with the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: HIRATA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi MATSUSHITA
  • Patent number: 11069550
    Abstract: A load port includes: a port plate; and a placing table on which a container that stores the substrate is placed. The placing table includes: a base portion; a dock plate; a support unit configured to support the dock plate such that the dock plate can move between the first position and a second position; and a cam mechanism configured to move the dock plate between the first position and the second position. The support unit includes a slider configured to move together with the dock plate. The cam mechanism includes: a driving mechanism provided on the base portion; and a cam plate which is connected to the slider and in which a cam groove is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HIRATA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Itsuo Fujiwara, Yoichi Matsushita