Automatic back-up pin arrangement system for component mounting machine
AssigneeFuji Corporation
InventorsHideya Kuroda, Hiroyoshi Sugita
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Abstract
A component mounting machine automatically arranges backup pins at positions designated in a production job. A control device configured to control an operation of each of the component mounting machines determines whether a backup pins exists at a position where the backup pin cannot be automatically arranged in the arrangement of the backup pins designated in the production job, and when the backup pin exist at a position where the backup pin cannot be automatically arranged, excludes the backup pins at the position from the arrangement of the backup pins designated in the production job not to be automatically arranged, and automatically arranges only the other backup pins at the positions designated in the production job.
Claims3
An automatic backup pin arrangement system for a component mounting machine configured to automatically arrange backup pins at positions designated in a production job, the backup pins configured to hold a circuit board, on which a component is mounted, from below, wherein
- an arrangement of the backup pins designated in the production job is used in common by multiple component mounting machines arranged along a conveyance path of the circuit board, and a position of each of the backup pins is designated at a position relative to the circuit board,
- two XY-robots configured to perform a component mounting operation and an automatic backup pin arrangement operation are mounted on each of the component mounting machines, and
- a control device configured to
- determine whether a backup pin exists in an area outside a movement range between movable areas of the two XY-robots as a position where the backup pin cannot be automatically arranged in the arrangement of the backup pins designated in the production job,
- exclude the backup pin from being automatically arranged at the position from the arrangement of the backup pins designated in the production job when the backup pin exists at the position where the backup pin cannot be automatically arranged, and
- arrange only other backup pins at the positions designated in the production job.
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