# US 10,373,643 B2 · Component accommodating body managing apparatus, component accommodating body storeroom, and component storage instructing method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,373,643 B2 - Document ID: US10373643B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/916,530 - Filed: 2018-03-09 - Published: 2018-09-27 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2017-03-27 - Assignees: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Kenichiro Toritani - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10373643B2 ## CPC - G11B 15/6885: {the cassettes being conveyed within a cassette storage location, e.g. within a storage bin or conveying by belt} - G06F 3/0604: {Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management} - G06F 3/0631: {by allocating resources to storage systems} - G06F 3/0682: {Tape device} - G11B 15/06: by sensing auxiliary features on record carriers or containers, e.g. to stop machine near the end of a tape - G11B 15/6895: {Automatic tape changing arrangements} - H05K 13/0215: {Interconnecting of containers, e.g. splicing of tapes} - H05K 13/086: {Supply management, e.g. supply of components or of substrates} - G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract A component accommodating body managing apparatus includes a preparation component extractor, a management storage, and a storage instructing unit. The storage instructing unit generates and transmits storage instruction of the component accommodating body that is stored in the component accommodating body storeroom, based on the preparing number of components, which is extracted by the preparation component extractor, and the accommodating number of components, which is stored in the management storage. Further, the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom that the accommodating number of components in the component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom henceforth satisfies the preparing number of components. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A component accommodating body managing apparatus comprising: a preparation component extractor that extracts a component type and a preparing number of components to be prepared from production planning information, wherein the production planning information includes a component type of a component that is to be mounted on a mounting board and the production number of the mounting board; a management storage that stores a component type and an accommodating number of components, wherein the accommodating number of components is the number of components accommodated in a component accommodating body that is stored in a component accommodating body storeroom; and a storage instructing unit that generates and transmits storage instruction of the component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom, based on the preparing number of components extracted by the preparation component extractor, and the accommodating number of components stored in the management storage, wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom such that the accommodating number of components satisfies the preparing number of components by having the accommodating number of components equal to or more than the preparing number of components. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the component accommodating body storeroom has a function of performing an integration process of integrating a plurality of components accommodated in a plurality of component accommodating bodies into one component accommodating body, and wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom to perform the integration process when the component accommodating body does not have the number of components to satisfy the preparing number of components. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the one component accommodating body to be stored as is: when the accommodating number of components after the integration process would exceed a limit accommodation number, or when integration is prohibited. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the one component accommodating body is one of a plurality of reel that holds a carrier tape housing the component in a wound state, and wherein the integration process is a splicing process of joining the carrier tapes held by the plurality of reels. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 4, wherein the management storage further stores a model of component supply device that supplies the component accommodated in the component accommodating body to a mounter, and wherein the storage instructing unit instructs that the one component accommodating body be stored as it is when the model of component supply device that supplies the component does not accept a carrier tape subjected to the splicing process. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom that a component accommodating body with an older component loading date and time is prioritized, of the plurality of component accommodating bodies, and is integrated with the one component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom that a component accommodating body that accommodates a component with a short expiration date is prioritized, of the plurality of component accommodating bodies, and is integrated with the one component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom henceforth. ### Claim 8 A component accommodating body storeroom that stores a plurality of component accommodating bodies which accommodate components supplied from a component supply device installed in a mounter, the storeroom comprising: a storage instruction acquirer that acquires storage instruction including a component type of a component to be prepared and a preparing number of components; a storeroom storage that stores a component type and an accommodating number of components which are accommodated in the stored component accommodating body; a hatch through which the component accommodating body is loaded in and unloaded from the storeroom; a transporter that transports the component accommodating body to an inside of the component accommodating body storeroom from the hatch; and a controller that controls the transporter based on the storage instruction, wherein the controller controls the transporter to have the accommodating number of components satisfy the preparing number of components by having the accommodating number of components equal to or more than the preparing number of components. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 8, further comprising: an integration processor performs an integration process that integrates a plurality of components accommodated in the plurality of component accommodating bodies into one component accommodating body, wherein the controller controls the transporter such that the component accommodating body is transported to the integration processor when the component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom henceforth does not have the number of components to satisfy the preparing number of components, and wherein the integration processor integrates the transported component accommodating body and another component accommodating body into the one component accommodating body. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 9, wherein the controller controls the transporter such that the component accommodating body is not transported to the integration processor: when a total number of the accommodating number of components in the one component accommodating body, after the integration process, exceeds a limit accommodation number, or when integration is prohibited to the one component accommodating body that is a target of the integration process. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 9, wherein the component accommodating body is one of a plurality of reels that holds a carrier tape for housing the component in a wound state, and wherein the integration processor performs a splicing process of joining the carrier tapes held by the plurality of respective reels. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 11, wherein the management storage further stores a model of a component supply device that supplies the component accommodated in the component accommodating body to the mounter, and wherein the controller controls the transporter such that the component accommodating body is not transported to the integration processor when the model of the component supply device does not accept a carrier tape subjected to the splicing process. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 9, wherein the controller controls the transporter such that a component accommodating body with an older component loading date and time is prioritized, of the plurality of component accommodating bodies, and is transported to the integration processor in order to be integrated with the one component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 9, wherein the controller controls the transporter such that a component accommodating body which accommodates a component with a short expiration date is prioritized, of the plurality of component accommodating bodies, and is transported to the integration processor in order to be integrated with the one component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom. ### Claim 15 (depends on 8) The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 8, further comprising: a preparation component extractor that extracts a component type of a component to be prepared and the preparing number of components from production planning information including a component type and the production number of mounting boards that are produced by the mounter, wherein the controller controls the transporter based on the extracted component type and the preparing number of components. ### Claim 16 A component storage instructing method in a component accommodating body managing apparatus that includes a management storage that stores a component type and an accommodating number of components in a component accommodating body stored in a component accommodating body storeroom, wherein the accommodating number of components is the number of components accommodated in a component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom, the method comprising: a preparation component extracting step of extracting a component type and a preparing number of components to be prepared, from production planning information including a component type of a component that is to be mounted on a mounting board and the production number of mounting board; and a storage instructing step of generating and transmitting storage instruction of the component accommodating body that is to be stored into the component accommodating body storeroom, based on the preparing number of components and the accommodating number of components wherein, in the storage instructing step, the instruction is generated such that the accommodating number of components satisfies the preparing number of components by having the accommodating number of components equal to or more than the preparing number of components.