# US 9,374,935 B2 · Manufacture work machine > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,374,935 B2 - Document ID: US9374935B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/643,347 - Filed: 2011-03-29 - Published: 2013-02-28 - Granted: 2016-06-21 - Earliest claimed: 2010-04-29 - Assignees: Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Noriaki Iwaki; Kazuyoshi Nagato; Masaki Kato; Hideaki Nomura; Shinji Ichino - Inventors: Noriaki Iwaki; Kazuyoshi Nagato; Masaki Kato; Hideaki Nomura; Shinji Ichino - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9374935B2 ## CPC - H05K 13/04: Mounting of components {, e.g. of leadless components} - G05B 19/0421: {Multiprocessor system} - G05B 19/41805: {characterised by assembly} - G05B 19/41865: {characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow} - H05K 13/0495: {having a plurality of work-stations} - G05B 2219/31421: File with parameters for station and identification of station - G05B 2219/32283: Machine scheduling, several machines, several jobs - G05B 2219/34418: Scheduler for sequential control, task planning, control sequence - G05B 2219/36195: Assembly, mount of electronic parts onto board - G05B 2219/45026: Circuit board, pcb - Y02P 90/02: Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] - Y10T 29/51: Plural diverse manufacturing apparatus including means for metal shaping or assembling - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract A manufacture work machine for performing a manufacture work, including a plurality of work-element performing apparatuses each configured to perform one of a plurality of work elements that constitute the manufacture work, wherein the plurality of work-element performing apparatuses include a plurality of work head devices and wherein the plurality of work head devices include a first work head device and a second work head device which are mutually different in kind of a work to be performed. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A manufacture work machine for performing a manufacture work, comprising: a plurality of work-element performing apparatuses each configured to perform one of a plurality of work elements that comprise the manufacture work, wherein the plurality of work-element performing apparatuses include: a plurality of work head devices comprising a first work head device and a second work head device which are mutually different in a kind of a work to be performed; and a head moving device configured to move the plurality of work head devices, the head moving device includes a planar-type moving device configured to move the plurality of work head devices as a unit along one plane and configured not to move the plurality of work head devices independently of each other along the one plane, the manufacture work machine is an assembling work machine configured to perform, as the manufacture work, an assembling work of assembling a plurality of components into an assembled article and which is configured to perform, as at least a part of the assembling work, a work of mounting, onto a first component as one of the plurality of components, a second component as another one of the plurality of components, the first work head device is configured to perform holding of the second component, as a work necessary for mounting the second component onto the first component, the head moving device includes a plurality of up-down-direction moving devices configured to move the plurality of work head devices independently of each other in an up-down direction, the head moving device includes a plurality of head holding portions for respectively holding the plurality of work head devices, the up-down-direction moving devices are configured to move the plurality of work head devices in the up-down direction by respectively moving the head holding portions, and the manufacture work machine further comprises an image taking device attached to one of the head holding portions that holds the first work head device, the image taking device being configured to be moved, in the up-down direction, by one of the plurality of up-down-direction moving devices that moves the first work head device, such that the image taking device is moved together with the first work head device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The manufacture work machine according to claim 1, wherein the second work head device is configured to perform one of (A) a work to be performed prior to a work of mounting the second component onto the first component, as the work necessary for mounting the second component onto the first component; and (B) a work to be performed on an article in which the second component has been mounted onto the first component. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The manufacture work machine according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of work-element performing apparatuses include a component supplier configured to perform, as one of the plurality of work elements, supplying of the second component, and wherein the second work head device is moved together with the first work head device by the planar-type moving device when the first work head device is moved by the planar-type moving device to the component supplier for holding the second component. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The manufacture work machine according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of work head devices is configured to be exchangeable with another work head device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The manufacture work machine according to claim 1, wherein the one of the plurality of work head devices includes: a main device functioning as a main working element in a work to be performed by the one of the plurality of work head devices; and a movement device held by the head holding portion and configured to move the main device in the up-down direction relative to the head holding portion. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The manufacture work machine according to claim 1, wherein the image taking device is configured to take an image of at least one of the first component and an article in which the second component has been mounted onto the first component. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The manufacture work machine according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of work-element performing apparatuses include: a conveyor configured to perform, as one of the plurality of work elements, conveyance of at least one of the first component and the assembled article; and a component supplier configured to perform, as one of the plurality of work elements, supplying of the second component.