Inspecting device monitoring system

• US 9,465,385 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CKD Corporation
• Original Assignee: CKD Corporation
• Inventors: Kamioka, Yosuke, Okuda, Manabu, Suzuki, Shingo
• Primary Examiner(s): DUNN, DARRIN D
• Application Number:
  US14/109,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20140200700A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41875 characterised by quality surveillance of production
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/32209 Stop production line
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/37217 Inspect solder joint, machined part, workpiece, welding result
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/0817 Monitoring of soldering processes inspection of solder joints or of printed solder paste G01N21/95684
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/083 Quality monitoring using results from monitoring devices, e.g. feedback loops H05K13/084 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

In a monitoring system, when there is an evaluation that a product is defective, in a solder print inspecting device that is subject to monitoring, that information is sent to a mobile terminal possessed by an operator. The operator who views the notification performs, through the mobile terminal, a checking task for evaluating whether or not the evaluation result regarding the printed substrate that has been evaluated as a defective product is correct. Depending on the evaluation result, an operating instruction is sent to the solder print inspecting device, which has temporarily stopped the printed substrate. If correction information instructing that the defective-product evaluation be corrected to a non-defective-product evaluation is sent from a mobile terminal to the solder print inspecting device, the solder print inspecting device corrects the defective-product evaluation to a non-defective-product evaluation, and releases the temporary stop of the printed substrate.

Claims

1. An inspecting device monitoring system for monitoring an operating status of one or more inspecting devices that includes an inspecting unit that performs specific inspections regarding specific inspection objects that are conveyed and arrive sequentially, and an evaluating unit that performs defective-product or non-defective-product evaluations on the inspection objects of based on inspection information obtained by the inspecting unit, the system comprising:

one or more mobile terminals, each including a communicating unit that communicates with the one or more inspecting devices through a specific communication circuit,

wherein each of the one or more inspecting devices comprises;

a temporary stopping unit that stops temporarily defective-product rejection of, at least, an inspection object relating to a defective-product evaluation, when there has been a defective-product evaluation by the evaluating unit; and

a communicating unit that communicates with the one or more mobile terminals through the communication circuit, and that, when there is a temporary stop of the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation, sends to the one or more mobile terminals operating information for the inspecting device indicating the temporary stop and inspection information relating to the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation; and

wherein each of the one or more mobile terminals comprises;

a displaying unit that displays, as a task item, information indicating a need for a checking task for the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation, by at least an operator of the mobile terminal, based on operating information received from the inspecting device when at least the inspecting device includes temporarily stopped the inspection object pertaining to the defective-product evaluation, and that displays the inspection information received from the inspecting unit; and

an inputting unit that accepts from the operator of the mobile terminal through at least the displaying unit an input of an evaluation result of an evaluation regarding the whether the evaluation result regarding the inspection object that has been evaluated as a defective product is correct;

wherein, when correction information for correcting the defective-product evaluation to a non-defective-product evaluation, as an operator instruction based on the evaluation result by the operator, is sent from the mobile terminal to the inspecting device, the inspecting device corrects the defective-product evaluation to a non-defective-product evaluation, and releases the temporary stop.

2. The inspecting device monitoring system as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a rejecting unit that rejects an inspection object relating to a defective-product evaluation when there has been a defective-product evaluation by the evaluating unit,

wherein, when confirming information indicating a confirmation of the defective-product evaluation, as an operator instruction based on an evaluation result by the operator is sent from the mobile terminal to the inspecting device, the inspecting device releases the temporary stop and outputs a rejection signal, to the rejecting unit, indicating that the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation is to be rejected.

3. An inspecting device monitoring system for monitoring an operating status of one or more inspecting devices that include an inspecting unit that performs specific inspections regarding specific inspection objects that are conveyed and arrive sequentially, and an evaluating unit that performs defective-product or non-defective-product evaluations on the inspection objects of based on inspection information obtained by the inspecting unit, the system comprising:

a plurality of mobile terminals, each including a communicating unit that communicates with the one or more inspecting devices and that communicates with another mobile terminal through a specific communication circuit,

wherein each of the one or more inspecting devices comprises;

a temporary stopping unit that stops temporarily defective-product rejection of, at least, an inspection object relating to a defective-product evaluation, when there has been a defective-product evaluation by the evaluating unit; and

a communicating unit that communicates with the plurality of mobile terminals through the communication circuit, and that, when there is a temporary stop of the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation, sends to the plurality of mobile terminals operating information for the inspecting device indicating the temporary stop and inspection information relating to the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation; and

wherein each of the one or more mobile terminals comprises;

a displaying unit that displays, as a task item, information indicating a need for a checking task for the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation, by at least an operator of the mobile terminal, based on operating information received from the inspecting device when at least the inspecting device has temporarily stopped the inspection object pertaining to the defective-product evaluation, and that displays the inspection information received from the inspecting unit; and

an inputting unit that accepts from the operator of the mobile terminal a selection of a checking task relating to a task item displayed on the displaying unit as a task to be handled by the operator, and accepts from the operator through the displaying unit an input of an evaluation result of an evaluation regarding the whether the evaluation result regarding the inspection object that has been evaluated as a defective product is correct;

wherein, when a specific operator, using a mobile terminal possessed thereby, has selected a checking task relating to a task item displayed on the displaying unit as an operation that the specific operator is to handle himself or herself, information to that effect is sent, as selection information, to a mobile terminal possessed by another operator, and the inspection information is displayed on the displaying unit;

wherein, when the mobile terminal possessed by the other operator has received the selection information, a fact that the task item relating to the selection information has been selected is displayed by a specific status; and

wherein, when correction information for correcting the defective-product evaluation to a non-defective-product evaluation, as an operator instruction based on the evaluation result by the specific operator, is sent from the mobile terminal possessed by the specific operator to the inspecting device, the inspecting device corrects the defective-product evaluation to a non-defective-product evaluation, and releases the temporary stop.

4. The inspecting device monitoring system as set forth in claim 3,

wherein, for the checking task relating to the task item that the specific operator has selected using the mobile terminal possessed by the specific operator, selection is disabled or execution is disabled in the mobile terminal possessed by the other operator.

5. The inspecting device monitoring system as set forth in claim 4, further comprising:

a authorization transferring unit that transfers authorization for performing the checking task so that the checking task relating to the task item that the specific operator has selected using the mobile terminal possessed by the specific operator is selected or executed in the mobile terminal possessed by the other operator.

6. The inspecting device monitoring system as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

a particular transferring unit, as an authorization transferring unit, that allows the specific operator to transfer authorization by indicating a particular other operator.

7. An inspecting device monitoring system as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

a nonspecified transferring unit, as the authorization transferring unit, that allows the specific operator to transfer authorization to a nonspecified other operator.

8. The inspecting device monitoring system as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

a nonspecified transferring unit, as an authorization transferring unit, that allows the specific operator to transfer authorization to a nonspecified other operator.

9. An inspecting device monitoring system as set forth in claim 3, further comprising:

a rejecting unit that rejects an inspection object relating to a defective-product evaluation when there has been a defective-product evaluation by the evaluating unit,

wherein, when confirming information indicating a confirmation of the defective-product evaluation, as an operator instruction based on an evaluation result by the operator is sent from the mobile terminal to the inspecting device, the inspecting device releases the temporary stop and outputs a rejection signal, to the rejecting unit, indicating that the inspection object relating to the defective-product evaluation is to be rejected.