Electronic equipment assembly apparatus and electronic equipment assembly method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsKEN TAKANO, YUJI TAKAHASHI, KAZU WAGATSUMA
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Abstract
There is provided an electronic equipment assembly apparatus including: a cable mounting mechanism which holds a cable and installs the cable onto a connector; a lock operation mechanism which operates a lock mechanism provided in the connector; a locked-state checker which checks a state of the lock mechanism of the connector; and a controller which controls the cable mounting mechanism and the lock operation mechanism.
Claims20
An electronic equipment assembly apparatus which installs a mounted portion of a cable onto a connector of electronic equipment, the apparatus comprising:
- a cable mounting mechanism which holds the cable and installs the cable onto the connector;
- a lock operation mechanism which operates a lock mechanism provided in the connector;
- a locked-state checker which checks a state of the lock mechanism of the connector;
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- a controller which controls the cable mounting mechanism and the lock operation mechanism.
An electronic equipment assembly method for installing a mounted portion of a cable onto a connector of electronic equipment, the method comprising:
- checking a state of a lock mechanism provided in the connector on which the cable is not mounted, by a locked-state checker;
- mounting the cable onto the connector by a cable mounting mechanism when the state of the lock mechanism is a state where the cable is mountable, and operating the lock mechanism by operating a lock operation mechanism;
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- checking the state of the lock mechanism of the connector on which the cable is installed, by the locked-state checker.
An electronic equipment assembly apparatus which installs a mounted portion of a cable onto a connector of electronic equipment, the apparatus comprising:
- a cable holding tool which holds the cable;
- a connector lock tool which operates a lock mechanism provided in the connector;
- a work stage which holds the electronic equipment;
- a robot portion which includes a base in which the cable holding tool and the connector lock tool are installed, and relatively moves the cable holding tool and the connector lock tool with respect to the electronic equipment held on the work stage by moving the base;
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- a controller which installs the mounted portion of the cable onto the connector by moving the robot portion, the cable holding tool, and the connector lock tool.
An electronic equipment assembly method for installing a mounted portion of a cable onto a connector of electronic equipment, the method comprising:
- holding the cable by a cable holding tool;
- inserting the mounted portion of the cable into the connector of the electronic equipment by moving the cable holding tool;
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- operating a lock mechanism provided in the connector by a connector lock tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.