Component mounting apparatus, service providing device and servicing method

• US 7,885,718 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2009
• Issued: 02/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yano, Toshio, Takahashi, Ken, Iizuka, Akira, Sarashina, Eigo, Isobata, Yoshinori, Okamura, Hiroshi, Masui, Masuo, Misawa, Yoshihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Masinick; Michael D
• Application Number:
  US12/421,272
• Publication Number:
  US 20090259333A1
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 700/65, 700/121, 438/26, 297/39
• US Class Current: 700/65
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41805 characterised by assembly
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/31457 Factory remote control, monitoring through internet
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32226 Computer assisted repair, maintenance of system components
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/45026 Circuit board, pcb
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/0465 by soldering H05K13/0469 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/0882 Control systems for mounting machines or assembly lines, e.g. centralized control, remote links, programming of apparatus and processes as such H05K13/083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4913 Assembling to base an electrical component, e.g., capacitor, etc.
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/5137 including assembling or disassembling station
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53022 with means to test work or product
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53161 including deforming means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53174 Means to fasten electrical component to wiring board, base, or substrate
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53178 Chip component

Abstract

A service receiving method for receiving a component library generated from mounted component data, including component size and mounting conditions, via a communication system that includes the Internet. The method includes the service provider receiving mounted component data having mounting conditions actually realized by a fabrication of non-defective products. The method also includes the service provider deriving a component library from a mounted component database.

Claims

1. A service receiving method for deriving a component library to allow a component mounting apparatus or a component mounting line to perform a mount production, the component mounting apparatus including a component supplier that supplies a component and component holder that holds the component from the component supplier and mounts the component onto a circuit board, and the component mounting line in which connection is made so as to include the component mounting apparatus, the method comprising:

inputting, by a service receiver provided at a user side, mounted component data having mounting conditions actually realized by a fabrication of non-defective products, to the service provider, through a communication system including the Internet;

accumulating and systematizing, by the service provider, the input mounted component data accumulated for each type of component in a mounted component database;

deriving, by the service receiver at the user side, a component library from the mounted component database provided in the service provider, the mounted component database at the service provider being systematized with the input mounted component data accumulated for each type of component; and

receiving, from the service provider, the component library generated from mounted component data of components, including component size and mounting conditions corresponding to a type of each component necessary to allow the component mounting apparatus to perform a mount production, via the communication system, by the service receiver provided at the user side, for mount production using a component mounting apparatus and a component mounting line.

2. A service providing method for providing a component library, to allow a component mounting apparatus or a component mounting line to perform a mount production, the component mounting apparatus including a component supplier that supplies a component and a component holder that holds the component from the component supplier, and one of mounts the component onto a circuit board, and a component mounting line in which connection is made so as to include the component mounting apparatus, the method comprising:

inputting and collecting, by the service provider, mounted component data having mounting conditions actually realized by a fabrication of non-defective products input by a service receiver provided at a user side via a communication system including the Internet;

accumulating and systemizing, by the service provider, the input mounted component data for each type of component in a mounted component database;

deriving the component library by the service provider; and

providing, by the service provider, the component library generated from the mounted component data of components, including component size and mounting conditions corresponding to a type of each component necessary to allow the component mounting apparatus to perform a mount production, via the communication system, to the service receiver provided at the user side, for mount production using a component mounting apparatus and a component mounting line.

3. The service providing method according to claim 2, wherein the service provider requests the service receiver to input the mounted component data, and collects and accumulates the input mounted component data during the inputting and collecting of the mounted component data.

4. The service providing method according to claim 2, wherein the component library is derived by retrieving and extracting the contents of the mounted component database, by specifying one of a type and a shape of each necessary component during the deriving of the component library.