System for determining suitability of printing component set in screen printing device and method for determining suitability of set printing component

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9579883-B2
Application number	US-201314649044-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 2, 2013
Priority date	Dec 3, 2012
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

A method of determining whether printing components suitable for a type of a substrate are correctly set in a screen printing device that makes a mask provided with a pattern hole abut on the substrate, supplies paste onto the mask, and slides a squeegee to thereby print the paste on the substrate through the pattern hole, includes reading identification marks attached to respective printing components, verifying pieces of component information corresponding to the read identification marks using pieces of component information allocated to the substrate in advance in production data, and informing purport when a printing component having discordant component information is present in the verification. The printing components include at least a mask, a squeegee, and paste.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system for determining suitability of printing components set in a screen printing device that makes a mask provided with a pattern hole abut on a substrate, supplies paste onto the mask, and slides a squeegee to thereby print the paste on the substrate through the pattern hole, the system comprising:
a suitability determination unit that determines whether or not printing components suitable for a type of the substrate are correctly set in the screen printing device, by verifying pieces of component information read from identification marks attached to the respective printing components using pieces of component information allocated to the substrate in advance in production data, wherein
the suitability determination unit includes
a printing component identification mark reading unit that reads the identification marks attached to the respective printing components,
a printing component verification unit that verifies the pieces of component information corresponding to the read identification marks using the pieces of component information allocated to the substrate, and
an informing unit that displays when a printing component having discordant component information is present in a verification result obtained by the printing component verification unit, and

the printing components include at least a mask, a squeegee, and paste,
wherein the system further comprises a control unit that locks the screen printing device when the printing component having discordant component information is present in the verification result obtained by the printing component verification unit, wherein the control unit is connected to the printing component verification unit.

2. A method of determining whether printing components suitable for a type of a substrate are correctly set in a screen printing device that makes a mask provided with a pattern hole abut on the substrate, supplies paste onto the mask, and slides a squeegee to thereby print the paste on the substrate through the pattern hole, the method comprising:
reading identification marks attached to respective printing components;
verifying pieces of component information corresponding to the read identification marks using pieces of component information allocated to the substrate in advance in production data;
informing process of displaying when a printing component having discordant component information is present in the verification; and
locking the screen printing device when the printing component having discordant component information is present in the verification,
wherein the printing components include at least a mask, a squeegee, and paste.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kurata Hiroaki

Classifications

• B41F33/0081 Primary

  Devices for scanning register marks · CPC title

• H05K2203/163

  Monitoring a manufacturing process · CPC title

• B41F15/34

  Screens, Frames; Holders therefor · CPC title

• B41F15/0881

  for printing on polyhedral articles · CPC title

• B41F15/08 Primary

  Machines · CPC title