Component accommodating body managing apparatus, component accommodating body storeroom, and component storage instructing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10373643-B2
Application number	US-201815916530-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 9, 2018
Priority date	Mar 27, 2017
Publication date	Aug 6, 2019
Grant date	Aug 6, 2019

Abstract

A component accommodating body managing apparatus includes a preparation component extractor, a management storage, and a storage instructing unit. The storage instructing unit generates and transmits storage instruction of the component accommodating body that is stored in the component accommodating body storeroom, based on the preparing number of components, which is extracted by the preparation component extractor, and the accommodating number of components, which is stored in the management storage. Further, the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom that the accommodating number of components in the component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom henceforth satisfies the preparing number of components.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A component accommodating body managing apparatus comprising:
a preparation component extractor that extracts a component type and a preparing number of components to be prepared from production planning information, wherein the production planning information includes a component type of a component that is to be mounted on a mounting board and the production number of the mounting board;
a management storage that stores a component type and an accommodating number of components, wherein the accommodating number of components is the number of components accommodated in a component accommodating body that is stored in a component accommodating body storeroom; and
a storage instructing unit that generates and transmits storage instruction of the component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom, based on the preparing number of components extracted by the preparation component extractor, and the accommodating number of components stored in the management storage,
wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom such that the accommodating number of components satisfies the preparing number of components by having the accommodating number of components equal to or more than the preparing number of components.

2. The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 1 ,
wherein the component accommodating body storeroom has a function of performing an integration process of integrating a plurality of components accommodated in a plurality of component accommodating bodies into one component accommodating body, and
wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom to perform the integration process when the component accommodating body does not have the number of components to satisfy the preparing number of components.

3. The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2 ,
wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the one component accommodating body to be stored as is:
when the accommodating number of components after the integration process would exceed a limit accommodation number, or
when integration is prohibited.

4. The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2 ,
wherein the one component accommodating body is one of a plurality of reel that holds a carrier tape housing the component in a wound state,
and
wherein the integration process is a splicing process of joining the carrier tapes held by the plurality of reels.

5. The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 4 ,
wherein the management storage further stores a model of component supply device that supplies the component accommodated in the component accommodating body to a mounter, and
wherein the storage instructing unit instructs that the one component accommodating body be stored as it is when the model of component supply device that supplies the component does not accept a carrier tape subjected to the splicing process.

6. The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2 ,
wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom that a component accommodating body with an older component loading date and time is prioritized, of the plurality of component accommodating bodies, and is integrated with the one component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom.

7. The component accommodating body managing apparatus of claim 2 ,
wherein the storage instructing unit instructs the component accommodating body storeroom that a component accommodating body that accommodates a component with a short expiration date is prioritized, of the plurality of component accommodating bodies, and is integrated with the one component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom henceforth.

8. A component accommodating body storeroom that stores a plurality of component accommodating bodies which accommodate components supplied from a component supply device installed in a mounter, the storeroom comprising:
a storage instruction acquirer that acquires storage instruction including a component type of a component to be prepared and a preparing number of components;
a storeroom storage that stores a component type and an accommodating number of components which are accommodated in the stored component accommodating body;
a hatch through which the component accommodating body is loaded in and unloaded from the storeroom;
a transporter that transports the component accommodating body to an inside of the component accommodating body storeroom from the hatch; and
a controller that controls the transporter based on the storage instruction,
wherein the controller controls the transporter to have the accommodating number of components satisfy the preparing number of components by having the accommodating number of components equal to or more than the preparing number of components.

9. The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 8 , further comprising:
an integration processor performs an integration process that integrates a plurality of components accommodated in the plurality of component accommodating bodies into one component accommodating body,
wherein the controller controls the transporter such that the component accommodating body is transported to the integration processor when the component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom henceforth does not have the number of components to satisfy the preparing number of components, and
wherein the integration processor integrates the transported component accommodating body and another component accommodating body into the one component accommodating body.

10. The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 9 ,
wherein the controller controls the transporter such that the component accommodating body is not transported to the integration processor:
when a total number of the accommodating number of components in the one component accommodating body, after the integration process, exceeds a limit accommodation number, or
when integration is prohibited to the one component accommodating body that is a target of the integration process.

11. The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 9 ,
wherein the component accommodating body is one of a plurality of reels that holds a carrier tape for housing the component in a wound state,
and
wherein the integration processor performs a splicing process of joining the carrier tapes held by the plurality of respective reels.

12. The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 11 ,
wherein the management storage further stores a model of a component supply device that supplies the component accommodated in the component accommodating body to the mounter, and
wherein the controller controls the transporter such that the component accommodating body is not transported to the integration processor when the model of the component supply device does not accept a carrier tape subjected to the splicing process.

13. The component accommodating body storeroom of claim 9 ,
wherein the controller controls the transporter such that a component accommodating body with an older component loading date and time is prioritized, of the plurality of component accommodating bodies, and is transported to the integration processor in order to be integrated with the one component accommodating body that is to be stored in the component accommodating body storeroom.

14. The component accom

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Toritani Kenichiro

Classifications

• G11B15/6895

  Automatic tape changing arrangements · CPC title

• H05K13/0215

  Interconnecting of containers, e.g. splicing of tapes · CPC title

• G11B15/06

  by sensing auxiliary features on record carriers or containers, e.g. to stop machine near the end of a tape · CPC title

• G06F3/0604

  Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management · CPC title

• G11B15/6885 Primary

  the cassettes being conveyed within a cassette storage location, e.g. within a storage bin or conveying by belt · CPC title