Patent
Electronic component mounting system and electronic component mounting method
| العنوان: | Electronic component mounting system and electronic component mounting method |
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| Patent Number: | 7,054,707 |
| تاريخ النشر: | May 30, 2006 |
| Appl. No: | 11/011766 |
| Application Filed: | December 15, 2004 |
| مستخلص: | This invention is directed to prevention of setting a component feeding unit set with other storage member than a storage member storing same type of components as components in shortage in an electronic component mounting apparatus. A component mounting apparatus sends notice information about component shortage to a control computer when a number of electronic components in a storage member reduces and reaches a level for sending the notice information of component shortage during mounting operations. The control computer stores the notice information, and sends the notice information to a monitor computer to display this information on a monitor. A new storage member having the corresponding components is set in the component feeding unit based on the displayed notice information, and an operator inputs information A about which component feeding unit is set with the storage member and which components are stored in the storage member set in the component feeding unit. The monitor computer sends the information A and information about completion of registration of a relation between the component feeding unit and the components to the control computer, and the control computer stores this information in a memory and sends the information about registration to the monitor computer, and the monitor displays the notice information in a different color. |
| Inventors: | Moriya, Yuji (Tatebayashi, JP); Koyama, Tomise (Ota, JP); Nakamura, Hiroshi (Kasai, JP); Okamoto, Manabu (Isesaki, JP); Hayashi, Kenichi (Gunma, JP); Azuma, Toshio (Kumagaya, JP) |
| Assignees: | Hitachi High-Tech Instruments Co., Ltd. (Gunma, JP) |
| Claim: | 1. An electronic component mounting system comprising: an electronic component mounting apparatus comprising a plurality of component feeding units feeding electronic components from a storage member, a memory provided for each of the component feeding units and keeping track of the number of electronic components remaining in the storage member to generate a notice of shortage of electronic components, the number decreasing as the electronic components are mounted on printed boards, and a CPU outputting the notice when the number of the electronic components remaining in the storage member reaches a predetermined number; a monitor computer comprising a display device displaying the notice and an input device inputting replenishment data correlating electronic components supplied in response to the notice and at least one of the component feeding units receiving the supplied electronic components, the monitor computer changing a display status of the notice displayed on the display device based on a confirmation of a completion of a registration of component registration event data comprising the replenishment data; and a control computer receiving and storing the notice outputted from the CPU and sending the notice to the monitor computer, wherein the monitor computer sends the replenishment data and the component registration event data to the control computer, and the control computer stores the replenishment data and the component registration event data and sends the component registration event data to the monitor computer. |
| Claim: | 2. The electronic component mounting system of claim 1 wherein the control computer sends the replenishment data to the electronic component mounting apparatus based on a request for the replenishment data from the electronic component mounting apparatus, and the electronic component mounting apparatus sends to the monitor computer a result of checking a miss-setting of the component feeding unit based on the replenishment data, and the monitor computer erases the notice displayed on the display device when the received checking result contains no miss-setting. |
| Claim: | 3. A method of picking electronic components up from a plurality of component feeding units each comprising a storage member containing the electronic components and mounting the electronic components on a printed board, the method comprising: storing in a memory predetermined limits to issue a notice of shortage of the electronic components, the predetermined limits including the minimum number of the electronic components that must be in the storage member for each of the component feeding units; sending the notice to a control computer when the number of the electronic components remaining in the storage member reaches a corresponding predetermined limit as the electronic components are mounted on the printed board; storing the notice in the control computer and sending the notice to a monitor computer from the control computer; displaying the notice sent by the control computer on a display device provided in the monitor computer; inputting in the monitor computer based on the displayed notice replenishment data correlating electronic components supplied in response to the notice and at least one of the component feeding units receiving the supplied electronic components; sending the replenishment data and component registration event data including the replenishment data from the monitor computer to the control computer; storing the replenishment data and the component registration event data in the control computer and sending the component registration event data from the control computer to the monitor computer; and changing a display status of the notice displayed on the display device based on a reception of the component registration event date from the control computer by the monitor computer. |
| Claim: | 4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising sending the replenishment data from the control computer to an electronic component mounting apparatus based on a request for the replenishment data from the electronic component mounting apparatus, sending a result of checking a miss-setting of a corresponding component feeding unit based on the replenishment data from the electronic component mounting apparatus to the monitor computer, and erasing the notice displayed on the display device when the received checking result contains no miss-setting. |
| Current U.S. Class: | 700/121 |
| Patent References Cited: | 2003/0027363 February 2003 Kodama 2004/0080897 April 2004 Kodama et al. 2004/0130863 July 2004 Shimizu et al. 2005/0036274 February 2005 Suhara et al. 2005/0077340 April 2005 Nagafuku et al. 07-094896 April 1995 |
| Primary Examiner: | Bahta, Kidest |
| Attorney, Agent or Firm: | Morrison & Foerster LLP |
| رقم الانضمام: | edspgr.07054707 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | USPTO Patent Grants |
| الوصف غير متاح. |