Nozzle management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10143119-B2
Application number	US-201314895756-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 3, 2013
Priority date	Jun 3, 2013
Publication date	Nov 27, 2018
Grant date	Nov 27, 2018

Abstract

In a nozzle management system provided with multiple nozzle management devices, a control device includes a housed nozzle information acquisition section that acquires information related to all suction nozzles housed in multiple nozzle management devices, first determination section that determines whether all the required suction nozzles to be transferred to a nozzle tray are housed in a prescribed nozzle housing device, and a second determination section that determines whether non-housed suction nozzles which are not housed in the prescribed nozzle housing device from among the required suction nozzles are housed in another suction nozzle housing device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A nozzle management system comprising:
multiple nozzle housing devices which include a housing section that houses suction nozzles for picking up and holding an electronic component and a transfer mechanism for transferring a suction nozzle housed in the housing section to a nozzle tray; and

a control device which includes a transfer information acquisition section that acquires information related to at least one suction nozzle which is required to be transferred to a nozzle tray;
wherein the control device has
a housed nozzle information acquisition section that acquires information related to suction nozzles housed in the housing section of the respective multiple nozzle housing devices,
a first determination section that, when suction nozzles housed in the housing section of a prescribed nozzle housing device from among the multiple nozzle housing devices are transferred to a nozzle tray, determines whether all the required suction nozzles are housed in the housing section of the prescribed nozzle housing device based on information acquired by the transfer information acquisition device, and
a second determination section that, in a case in which not all the required suction nozzles are housed in the housing section of the prescribed nozzle housing device, determines whether non-housed suction nozzles which are not stored in the housing section of the prescribed nozzle housing device from among the required suction nozzles are stored in the housing section of a nozzle housing device other than the prescribed nozzle housing device from among the multiple nozzle housing devices.

2. The nozzle management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control device includes an information notifying section that notifies any device of information related to the non-housed suction nozzles in a case in which the non-housed suction nozzles are not housed in the housing section of a nozzle housing device other than the prescribed nozzle housing device from among the multiple nozzle housing devices.

3. The nozzle management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control device includes a command output section that, in a case in which non-housed suction nozzles are housed in the housing section of a nozzle housing device other than the prescribed nozzle housing device from among the multiple nozzle housing devices, outputs a command to the nozzle housing device which houses the non-housed suction nozzles from among the multiple nozzle housing devices to transfer the non-housed suction nozzles to a nozzle tray.

4. The nozzle management system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the command output section outputs a command to the prescribed nozzle housing device to transfer housed suction nozzles except for the non-housed suction nozzles from among the required suction nozzles to a nozzle tray, and outputs a command to the nozzle housing device which houses the non-housed suction nozzles from among the multiple nozzle housing devices to transfer the non-housed suction nozzles to the nozzle tray to which the housed suction nozzles were transferred.

5. The nozzle management system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the command output section, in a case in which all the required suction nozzles are stored in the nozzle housing device which houses the non-housed suction nozzles from among the multiple nozzle housing devices, outputs a command to the nozzle housing device to transfer all the required suction nozzles including the non-housed suction nozzles to a nozzle tray.

6. The nozzle management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control device has a deterioration estimating section that estimates the deterioration of suction nozzles housed in the housing section, and at least one of the first determination section and the second determination section performs determination such that suction nozzles determined to be deteriorated by the deterioration estimating section are considered as not housed in the housing section.

7. The nozzle management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the transfer information acquisition section acquires information related to the required suction nozzles according to a production plan of a prescribed period.

8. The nozzle management system according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one among the multiple nozzle housing devices has at least one of an inspection mechanism that performs inspection of suction nozzles housed in the housing section, and a cleaning mechanism that performs cleaning of suction nozzles housed in the housing section.

Assignees

• Fuji Corp

Inventors

• Hosaka Hideki
• Yamashita Yoshinori

Classifications

• H05K13/0408 Primary

  Incorporating a pick-up tool · CPC title

• B05B15/55

  using cleaning fluids · CPC title

• H05K13/0409 Primary

  Sucking devices · CPC title

• H05K13/087

  Equipment tracking or labelling, e.g. tracking of nozzles, feeders or mounting heads · CPC title

• H05K13/086

  Supply management, e.g. supply of components or of substrates · CPC title