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Granted Patent B2
US 12,439,578 · App. 18/261,876 · Granted Oct 7, 2025

Feeder management system

Inventor: Yoshiharu Tanizawa (Toyota, JP)
Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
H05K13/0895B65G47/16H05K13/043H05K13/084
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,439,578
App. No.
18/261,876
Granted
Oct 7, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A feeder management system includes a storage section configured to store component information including a type of a component loaded in a bulk feeder and cleaning information providing an execution history of cleaning including, as its cleaning target, at least a conveyance path along which the component is conveyed in the bulk feeder in association with the bulk feeder, and a determination section configured to determine whether the cleaning is executed before an update request for the component information is made based on the cleaning information when the update request for the component information is received.

Claims (20)

1. A feeder management system comprising:

a storage section configured to store component information including a type of a component loaded in a bulk feeder and cleaning information providing an execution history of cleaning including, as its cleaning target, at least a conveyance path along which the component is conveyed in the bulk feeder in association with the bulk feeder; and

a determination section configured to determine whether the cleaning is executed before an update request for the component information is made based on the cleaning information when the update request for the component information is received.

2. The feeder management system according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a processing section configured to regulate updating of the component information when the determination section determines that the cleaning has not yet been executed.

3. The feeder management system according to claim 2 ,

wherein when the processing section regulates updating of the component information, the processing section notifies an outside section of incompleteness of the cleaning.

4. The feeder management system according to claim 2 ,

wherein the processing section issues an instruction to a cleaner configured to execute the cleaning on the bulk feeder mounted therein to execute the cleaning.

5. The feeder management system according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processing section updates the component information and the cleaning information when the cleaning is executed by the cleaner.

6. The feeder management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein when the component is newly loaded in the bulk feeder, the feeder management system receives an update request for the component information on the component which is associated with the bulk feeder.

7. The feeder management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the new components are loaded in the bulk feeder by a component case accommodating therein the multiple components in a bulk state being attached to the bulk feeder or by the multiple components being supplied to the component case.

8. The feeder management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the component information includes information configured to specify a vendor or a lot of the component.

9. The feeder management system according to claim 1 ,

wherein a component case for accommodating the multiple components in a bulk state and a track member on which the conveyance path is formed are both detachably attached to the bulk feeder, and

wherein the cleaning information includes execution histories of cleaning for individual pieces of identification information configured to specify the component case and track member individually.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 18, 2023
From: TANIZAWA, YOSHIHARU
To: FUJI CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 064295/0537 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240076137A1 · Mar 7, 2024
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