US 12,583,677 B2Granted

Component management device and component management method

AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

InventorYoshinori Isobata

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Abstract

Provided are a roll body extractor that extracts roll bodies from reels and store the roll bodies in cases having radio tags, respectively, and a storage warehouse that includes a plurality of storage positions for storing the cases storing the roll bodies. Furthermore, provided are a reading unit that acquires component information, an identification information generator that generates identification information for identifying a component, a writing unit that writes the component information and the identification information in the radio tag, and a contactless reader that reads the identification information written in the radio tag. Further, the component information written in the radio tag and the identification information are stored in association with each other, and storage position information generated by specifying the storage position and the identification information read by the contactless reader are stored in association with each other.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A component management device comprising:

a roll body extractor configured to extract roll bodies from holding bodies that hold carrier tapes storing components, and store the roll bodies in cases each having a read-write tag;
a component information acquisition unit configured to read a label attached to each of the holding bodies and acquire component information that is information on one component among the components;
an identification information generator configured to generate identification information that is used to discriminate the one component from other components among the components, the other components housed in cases other than a case in which the one component is housed;
a writing unit configured to write the component information acquired by the component information acquisition unit and the identification information into the read-write tag of the case;
a storage warehouse that includes a storage including a plurality of storage positions for storing the cases, a case transfer mechanism configured to transfer the cases to the plurality of storage positions, and an identification information reading unit that reads the identification information written in the read-write tag of the case;
a first information manager configured to store the component information and the identification information written in the read-write tag of the case
a storage position information generator configured to specify a storage position among the plurality of storage positions and generate storage position information;
and
a second information manager configured to store the storage position information generated by the storage position information generator and the identification information read by the identification information reading unit in association with each other,
wherein the case transfer mechanism transfers the case to the storage position based on the storage position information.

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A component management method for a component mounting system that includes:

a roll body extractor configured to extract roll bodies from holding bodies that hold carrier tapes storing components and store the roll bodies in cases each having a read-write tag;
a storage warehouse that includes a storage unit including a plurality of storage positions for storing the cases and a case transfer mechanism configured to transfer the cases to the plurality of storage positions;
a first information manager;
a second information manager, an identification information generator, a writing unit, a reading unit, and a storage position information generator, the component management method comprising:
acquiring component information that is information on one component among the components by the first information manager;
generating identification information that is used to discriminate the one component from other components among the components by the identification information generator, the other components housed in cases other than a case in which the one component is housed;
writing the component information and the identification information into the read-write tag of the case by the writing unit;
storing the component information and the identification information written in the read-write tag of the case in the first information manager;
reading the identification information written in the read-write tag of the case by the reading unit;
specifying a storage position corresponding to the case among the plurality of storage positions and generating storage position information by the storage position information generator;
storing the storage position information and the identification information in the second information manager;
and
transferring the case to the storage position based on the storage position information by the case transfer mechanism.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/904,848Filed 19 Nov 2020
Priority: JP 2020-05353825 Mar 2020
Published: US 2023/0112775 A113 Apr 2023
Granted: 24 Mar 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

B65G 1/137
Mechanical: with arrangements or automatic control means for selecting which articles are to be removed
H05K 13/021
Feeding of components: loading or unloading of containers
B65G 9/002
Apparatus for assisting manual handling having suspended load-carriers movable by hand or gravity: load-carriers, rollers therefor
H05K 13/0419
Feeding with belts or tapes: tape feeders