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Granted Patent B2
US 12,336,105 · App. 17/775,041 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Component mounter

Inventors: Kazuya Kotani (Toyota, JP); Keiichi Ono (Anjo, JP); Tomoya Fujimoto (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
H05K13/0015H05K13/0076H05K13/022
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Patent No.
US 12,336,105
App. No.
17/775,041
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A component mounter includes a camera configured to image the supply region, an image processing section configured to execute image processing on image data acquired by imaging of the camera to recognize an accommodation state of the component for each of the multiple cavities and acquire accommodation information in which the accommodation state of the component is associated with a unique address for each of the multiple cavities, and an operation control section configured to execute a collection operation of the component accommodated in the cavity based on the accommodation information.

Claims (35)

1. A component mounter to mount supplied components on a board, the component mounter comprising:

a mounting head to mount the components;

a bulk feeder including

multiple cavities individually accommodating multiple components in a supply region in which the mounting head collects the components, and

an accommodation device that accommodates the multiple components discharged from a component case accommodating the multiple components in a bulk state in at least a part of the cavities;

a camera that images the supply region; and

a control unit including:

an image processing section that executes image processing on image data acquired by imaging of the camera to recognize an accommodation state of the component for each of the multiple cavities and acquire accommodation information in which the accommodation state of the component is associated with a unique address for each of the multiple cavities; and

an operation control section that executes a collection operation of the component accommodated in the cavity based on the accommodation information.

2. The component mounter according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit includes a determination section that determines quality of the cavity accommodating the component based on an operation result of whether the component is collected after the collection operation is executed.

3. The component mounter according to claim 2 ,

wherein the operation control section uses the component indicated as a collectable state, in the accommodation information, in which the component is accommodated in the cavity in a normal posture, as a target of the collection operation, and

the determination section determines that the cavity accommodating the component is defective in a case where the component is not collected and record a determination result in cavity information associated with the address.

4. The component mounter according to claim 3 ,

wherein the operation control section excludes the component accommodated in the cavity indicated as a defective state in the cavity information among the multiple components indicated as the collectable state in the accommodation information, from the target of the collection operation.

5. The component mounter according to claim 3 , wherein the control unit includes a notification section that notifies an operator that the cavity is defective in a case where the number of cavities indicated as a defective state in the cavity information is equal to or larger than a threshold value.

6. The component mounter according to claim 5 ,

wherein the notification section also gives a notification of a position of a defective cavity in the supply region based on the cavity information in a case where a notification of a defect of the cavity is given.

7. The component mounter according to claim 1 ,

wherein the accommodation state of the component indicated for each address in the accommodation information includes a collectable state in which the component is accommodated in the cavity in a normal posture, a non-collectable state in which the component has a non-collectable positional relationship with the cavity, and an empty state in which the component is not accommodated in the cavity.

8. The component mounter according to claim 1 ,

wherein the operation control section is acquires the accommodation information by direct or indirect communication with the image processing section and execute the collection operation based on coordinate data indicating a coordinate value for each of the multiple cavities corresponding to the address and the accommodation information.

9. The component mounter according to claim 8 ,

wherein the image processing section transmits the accommodation information in which the accommodation state is associated only with the address of the cavity in a collectable state in which the component is accommodated in the cavity in a normal posture in a result of the image processing, to the operation control section.

10. The component mounter according to claim 8 ,

wherein multiple addresses have consecutiveness relating to arrangement of the multiple cavities, and

the image processing section transmits the accommodation information in which the accommodation state associated with each of the consecutive addresses is encoded by run-length compression, to the operation control section.

11. The component mounter according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image processing section recognizes the accommodation state of the component for each of the multiple cavities and calculate a coordinate value of a reference position of a collectable component accommodated in the cavity in a normal posture among the multiple components in the image processing to acquire the accommodation information in which the coordinate value of the reference position is associated with the address.

12. The component mounter according to claim 11 ,

wherein the operation control section executes the collection operation based on the accommodation state of the component and the coordinate value of the reference position in a case where the coordinate value of the reference position of the component is indicated in the accommodation information.

13. The component mounter according to claim 11 ,

wherein the image processing section switches whether to calculate the coordinate value of the reference position of the component in accordance with a type of the component in the image processing.

14. The component mounter according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image processing section sets a target range of the image processing only within a defined range for each of the multiple cavities based on arrangement information indicating positions of the multiple cavities in the bulk feeder.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 6, 2022
From: KOTANI, KAZUYA; ONO, KEIICHI; FUJIMOTO, TOMOYA
To: FUJI CORPORATION
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Continuity (1)
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