Method for manufacturing conveyance device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12304745-B2
Application number	US-202117496322-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2021
Priority date	Oct 12, 2020
Publication date	May 20, 2025
Grant date	May 20, 2025

Abstract

A method for manufacturing a conveyance device capable of accurately completing the conveyance device imagined by a customer in a relatively short time. One or a plurality of operation confirmation devices that visually confirms an operation of the conveyance device is used. The method includes exhibiting a desired operation of the conveyance device in a video by the operation confirmation device and confirming a required operation of the conveyance device in a specification confirmation step, inputting data for realizing the required operation or realizing an operation similar to the required operation to the operation confirmation device, exhibiting the operation of the conveyance device in a video based on the data that has been input in a virtual operation confirmation step, and inputting the data to an actual individual controller of the conveyance unit in a data input step.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a conveyance device,
wherein the conveyance device comprises:
a host controller; and
a plurality of conveyance units each including an individual controller that controls each of the conveyance units,
the individual controller of each conveyance unit including:
a control circuit configured to input data regarding control; and
a communication unit that communicates with the host controller, and
wherein the method comprises:
(a) confirming a required operation of the conveyance device by exhibiting a desired operation of the conveyance device in a video using at least one operation confirmation device that is configured to visually confirm an operation of the conveyance device;
(b) confirming virtually the operation of the conveyance device by exhibiting the operation of the conveyance device in a video based on the data that has been input into the operation confirmation device, the data being for realizing the required operation or an operation similar to the required operation;
(c) inputting the data into the individual controller of the actual plurality of conveyance units; and
(d) confirming actually the operation of the conveyance device after step (c) by acquiring log data of the individual controller of each of the conveyance units whereby the log data includes information on actual operation of each of the conveyance units and a time of acquisition of the information, storing the log data in a log data storage unit, inputting the log data stored in the log data storage unit to the operation confirmation device, and reproducing the operation of the conveyance device in a video.

2. The method according to claim 1 , comprising (e) correcting the data that is confirmed as an error in step (d).

3. The method according to claim 2 ,
wherein a final specification creator is used to store a plurality of fixed phrases and display-fields corresponding to the plurality of fixed phrases,
wherein information about a layout of the conveyance device to be manufactured and data input in step (c), and/or data corrected in step (e) are input into the final specification creator, and
wherein a document in which the layout and a description based on the data are written in the display fields is created.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the data is corrected to approximate to the required operation in step (b).

5. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein a final specification creator is used to store a plurality of fixed phrases and display-fields corresponding to the plurality of fixed phrases,
wherein information about a layout of the conveyance device to be manufactured and data input in step (c) are input into the final specification creator, and
wherein a document in which the layout and a description based on the data are written in the display fields is created.

6. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the individual controller includes a basic control circuit,
wherein a parameter required for a specific operation can be input as one of the data, and
wherein a parameter for executing the operation of the conveyance device exhibited in step (a) is acquired and is input into the operation confirmation device when step (b) is performed.

7. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the individual controller includes a basic control circuit,
wherein a parameter required for a specific operation can be input as one of the data, and
wherein a parameter acquired from the data used in step (b) is input into the individual controller in step (c).

Assignees

• Itoh Denki Co Ltd

Inventors

• Itoh Kazuo
• Tachibana Toshiyuki
• Inoue Mitsuo
• Takanaga Akira

Classifications

• B65G2203/044

  Optical · CPC title

• B65G2203/0291

  Speed of the load carrier · CPC title

• Y02P90/02

  Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS] · CPC title

• G05B19/4189

  characterised by the transport system · CPC title

• G05B2219/45054

  Handling, conveyor · CPC title