# US 2020/0404818 A1 · Component replenishment management system and component mounting system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2020/0404818 A1 - Document ID: US20200404818A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/969,174 - Filed: 2018-02-28 - Published: 2020-12-24 - Earliest claimed: 2018-02-28 - Assignees: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha - Applicants: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha - Inventors: Yoichi MATSUSHITA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20200404818A1 ## CPC - H05K 13/086: {Supply management, e.g. supply of components or of substrates} - H05K 13/02: Feeding of components - H05K 13/0417: {Feeding with belts or tapes} - H05K 13/085: {Production planning, e.g. of allocation of products to machines, of mounting sequences at machine or facility level} - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract This component replenishment management system is provided with an acquisition unit, a setting unit, a component supply monitoring unit, and a replenishment target specifying unit. The acquisition unit acquires a management start time for replenishing reels corresponding to each of a plurality of component supply devices. The setting unit sets a specified period until a specified time after a predetermined specified length of time has elapsed from the management start time. The component supply monitoring unit specifies, for each component supply device, a replenishment possibility time at which said component supply device can be replenished with a new reel. The replenishment target specifying unit specifies a component supply device in which the replenishment possibility time is an earlier time than the specified time as a component replenishment target device to be replenished with a new reel within the specified period. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A component replenishment management system that manages a replenishment of component storage members storing components with respect to each of a plurality of component supply devices attached to a mounter that mounts the components on a substrate to produce a mounted substrate, a plurality of the component storage members being loadable into each of the plurality of component supply devices, the component replenishment management system comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a management start time expressing a start time of the management of the replenishment of the component storage members with respect to each of the plurality of component supply devices; a setting unit configured to set a specified period until a specified time after a predetermined specified length of time has elapsed from the management start time; a component supply monitoring unit configured to monitor a supply status of the components in each of the plurality of component supply devices, and specify, for each of the plurality of component supply devices, a replenishment possibility time at which a preceding component storage member used to supply the components from among the plurality of component storage members runs out of components and replenishment with a new component storage member becomes possible; and a replenishment target specifying unit configured to specify a component supply device whose replenishment possibility time is an earlier time than the specified time as a component replenishment target device targeted for replenishment with a new component storage member within the specified period. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The component replenishment management system according to claim 1, further comprising: a replenishment timing specifying unit configured to specify a same replenishment timing of a new component storage member within the specified period for all of the component replenishment target devices specified by the replenishment target specifying unit. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The component replenishment management system according to claim 2, wherein the replenishment timing specifying unit is configured to specify a replenishment possibility time of interest that is a latest time from among the replenishment possibility times corresponding to the component replenishment target devices, and specify any time between the replenishment possibility time of interest and the specified time as the replenishment timing. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The component replenishment management system according to claim 3, wherein the setting unit is configured to set a predetermined management period whose latest time is the specified time within the specified period, and the replenishment timing specifying unit is configured to recognize, from among the component replenishment target devices, target devices of interest whose replenishment possibility time is a later time than an earliest time of the management period, specify the latest time among the replenishment possibility times corresponding to the target devices of interest as the replenishment possibility time of interest, and specify the replenishment possibility time of interest within the management period as the replenishment timing. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The component replenishment management system according to claim 3, wherein the replenishment timing specifying unit is configured to specify the specified time as the replenishment timing. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The component replenishment management system according to claim 1, further comprising: a recommended start time specifying unit configured to specify a recommended next start time recommended as a start time of replenishment management next time in a time window after the specified time, wherein the recommended start time specifying unit is configured to specify the earliest time among the replenishment possibility times corresponding to remaining component supply devices other than the component replenishment target devices among the plurality of component supply devices as the recommended next start time. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The component replenishment management system according to claim 1, wherein the setting unit is configured to divide a target period of replenishment management of the component storage members after the management start time into a plurality of the specified periods by treating the specified length of time as a time interval, and the replenishment target specifying unit is configured to specify the component replenishment target devices for each of the plurality of specified periods. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The component replenishment management system according to claim 7, wherein the setting unit is configured to set the time interval in each of the plurality of specified periods to a fixed interval. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The component replenishment management system according to claim 7, further comprising: an operation unit configured to receive an operation of inputting command information related to the setting of the time interval of the specified periods, wherein the setting unit is configured to set the time interval in each of the plurality of specified periods based on the command information. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The component replenishment management system according to claim 7, further comprising: an adjustment unit configured to calculate a number of the component replenishment target devices specified by the replenishment target specifying unit for each of the plurality of specified periods, and adjust the number of the component replenishment target devices in each of the plurality of specified periods based on a result of the calculation, wherein with regard to the number of component replenishment target devices in respective specified periods adjacent to each other in a time series, in a case where a number in a first specified period of interest that is earlier in a time-series order is greater than a predetermined reference number, while in addition, a number in a second specified period of interest that is later in the time-series order is less than the reference number, the adjustment unit is configured to perform a replenishment count adjustment process of allocating a portion of the component replenishment target devices in the first specified period of interest as component replenishment target devices targeted for replenishment with a new component storage member in the second specified period of interest. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The component replenishment management system according to claim 10, wherein the component supply monitoring unit is configured to specify, for each of the plurality of component supply devices, a remaining count warning time at which a total number of remaining components stored in the plurality of component storage members will reach a predetermined component remaining count warning value, and the adjustment unit does not perform the replenishment count adjustment process in a case where the remaining count warning time is included within a third specified period of interest that is adjacent later in the time series than the second specified period of interest in the plurality of specified periods. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) A component mounting system comprising: a mounter to which a plurality of component supply devices loadable with a plurality of component storage members storing components is attached, the mounter being configured to mount the components on a substrate to produce a mounted substrate; and the component replenishment management system according to claim 1 that manages a replenishment of the component storage members with respect to each of the plurality of component supply devices. ### Claim 13 (depends on 2) The component replenishment management system according to claim 2, further comprising: a recommended start time specifying unit configured to specify a recommended next start time recommended as a start time of replenishment management next time in a time window after the specified time, wherein the recommended start time specifying unit is configured to specify the earliest time among the replenishment possibility times corresponding to remaining component supply devices other than the component replenishment target devices among the plurality of component supply devices as the recommended next start time. ### Claim 14 (depends on 3) The component replenishment management system according to claim 3, further comprising: a recommended start time specifying unit configured to specify a recommended next start time recommended as a start time of replenishment management next time in a time window after the specified time, wherein the recommended start time specifying unit is configured to specify the earliest time among the replenishment possibility times corresponding to remaining component supply devices other than the component replenishment target devices among the plurality of component supply devices as the recommended next start time. ### Claim 15 (depends on 4) The component replenishment management system according to claim 4, further comprising: a recommended start time specifying unit configured to specify a recommended next start time recommended as a start time of replenishment management next time in a time window after the specified time, wherein the recommended start time specifying unit is configured to specify the earliest time among the replenishment possibility times corresponding to remaining component supply devices other than the component replenishment target devices among the plurality of component supply devices as the recommended next start time. ### Claim 16 (depends on 2) The component replenishment management system according to claim 2, wherein the setting unit is configured to divide a target period of replenishment management of the component storage members after the management start time into a plurality of the specified periods by treating the specified length of time as a time interval, and the replenishment target specifying unit is configured to specify the component replenishment target devices for each of the plurality of specified periods. ### Claim 17 (depends on 3) The component replenishment management system according to claim 3, wherein the setting unit is configured to divide a target period of replenishment management of the component storage members after the management start time into a plurality of the specified periods by treating the specified length of time as a time interval, and the replenishment target specifying unit is configured to specify the component replenishment target devices for each of the plurality of specified periods. ### Claim 18 (depends on 4) The component replenishment management system according to claim 4, wherein the setting unit is configured to divide a target period of replenishment management of the component storage members after the management start time into a plurality of the specified periods by treating the specified length of time as a time interval, and the replenishment target specifying unit configured to specify the component replenishment target devices for each of the plurality of specified periods.