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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154226 | Operating apparatus An operating apparatus including a main body, a movable member, a drive unit having a drive source, and a control unit controlling the drive source to control the position of the movable member relative to the main body. The control unit including a position control... | 04/10/2012 |
| 7603766 | Electronic-component holding apparatus and mounting system An electronic-component holding apparatus and an electronic-component mounting system each of which assures that a nozzle head holding a plurality of suction nozzles is easily attached to, and detached from, a head holding member, are provided. A suction surface of ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7587814 | Printed-board supporting apparatus A printed-board supporting apparatus includes a support pin that is attached to a pin-supporting table. An image of the support surface of the support pin is taken by a mark-image taking device, at a first position where a center of an image-take surface of the mark... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7363702 | Working system for circuit substrate A working system for a circuit substrate enabling a control of stopping the substrate without inconvenience. A PWB detector 308 held by a Y-axis slide 252 of an XY robot 266 moving a component mounting head, has reflection type photoelectric sen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7278204 | Electric-component holding apparatus An electric-component holding apparatus including a component holder which holds an electric component and includes an engaging portion, a holder-holding member to which the component holder is detachably attached, a lock member which consists of a substantially rig... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7273166 | Component information applying method and apparatus The invention improves supply of an electronic circuit components by a component tape. When a number of the components remaining in each feeder becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined number, an operator is informed of a fact that another component tape can... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7251541 | Substrate-related-operation performing system including operation-performing-program judging device, and operation-performing-program judging program A substrate-related-operation performing system improves its operation efficiency by preventing an error in replacing, for a substrate-related-operation performing apparatus thereof, an operation performing program with another operation performing program. A circui... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245978 | Managing apparatus for managing assisting work to assist substrate-related-work performing system, and managing program for managing assisting work to assist substrate-related-work performing system Assisting-work management apparatus and an assisting-work management program for performing the assisting work in a substrate work machine system efficiently by a plurality of workers. A worker determining section (140) determines a worker to perform an objec... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7221178 | Working system for circuit boards In a working system for circuit boards such as, typically, as an electronic component mounting apparatus, an image pickup camera mainly for detecting the position of a reference mark on a circuit board or/and for detecting the misalignment of an electronic component... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7181307 | Electronic circuit component mounting system, mounting control program, and system to prevent erroneous setting of electronic circuit components An electronic component mounting system including an electronic component mounter and a control device for controlling the mounter. When the control device detects an exhaust component during a series of component mounting operations, the control device checks a mem... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7181089 | Method and apparatus for searching for fiducial marks, and method of detecting positions of the fiducial marks Method and apparatus for searching for a fiducial mark, by processing image data indicative of images of the fiducial mark and an area surrounding the fiducial mark, which images are taken by an imaging device, wherein the image data are processed by an image-data p... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159307 | Electrically operated chucking apparatus An electrically operated chucking apparatus including (a) an electrically operated chuck including at least two movable members movable toward and away from each other, and at least two drive devices which include respective electrically operated actuators operable ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7102148 | Calibration method and device in electronic component mounting apparatus In an electronic component mounting apparatus capable of replacing a component placing device with any of plural other component placing devices different in performance, the distance between the center line of a component pick-up portion of a replaced component pla... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089655 | System for operating and resetting PCB holding device A system for performing an operation to a printed wiring board (PWB) having an apparatus for automatically resetting a PWB supporting device including a supporting table, supporting members which are set on a surface of the supporting table to support the PWB, a sup... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7076094 | Method and apparatus for detecting position of lead of electric component, and electric-component mounting method A method of detecting a position of a lead of an electric component which additionally includes a body from which the lead extends, the method including the steps of illuminating a lengthwise limited portion of the lead, with a light incident thereto in a direction ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7058216 | Apparatus for detecting lead coplanarity, apparatus for detecting condition of electronic component, and system for mounting electronic component An apparatus for detecting a coplanarity of a plurality of leads of an electronic component that laterally extend from a main body thereof, including a holding device which holds the main body of the electronic component at an upper surface of the main body, an imag... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7043820 | Electric-component mounting system An electric-component mounting system including a substrate-holding device for holding at least one circuit substrate, at least one first mounting unit and at least one second mounting unit, each of which has at least one mounting head each operable to receive a sel... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043824 | Electric-component mounting system An electric-component mounting system wherein a determining device is operated for presently required operations of working devices disposed on a common main body, to determine a cycle-time-determinant working device which determines a cycle time of the system such ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7036215 | Method and program for obtaining positioning errors of printed-wiring board, and electronic-circuit-component mounting system An electronic-circuit-component mounting system including at least two component mounting units concurrently operated to mount electronic circuit components on a printed-wiring board, wherein a relative position of the two units is obtained from positions of a commo... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7036212 | Apparatus for performing operation on circuit substrate An apparatus for performing an operation on a circuit substrate, the apparatus including a plurality of operating devices which are provided in a space that is closed and opened by a safety cover and one of which performs the operation on the circuit substrate, a sa... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7032303 | Method for mounting electric components on a printed-wiring board A method of sequentially mounting, on a printed-wiring board supported by a board supporting device, a plurality of electric components which are sucked and held by respective ends of a plurality of suction nozzles which are supported by a rotatable body such that t... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7010853 | Electric-component mounting system An electric-component mounting system for mounting a plurality of electric components onto a circuit board. The system includes a plurality of electric-component mounting units which are arranged in a predetermined direction with a spacing distance between each adja... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6999835 | Circuit-substrate working system and electronic-circuit fabricating process An electronic-circuit fabricating system wherein an inspecting machine is provided for each of working machines such as a mask printing machine and an electronic-component mounting machine, to inspect a result of an operation of each working machine, and a monitorin... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6986196 | Electric-component supplying method and electric-component mounting system A method of supplying suction nozzles with electric components supplied from feeders each of which is operable to feed the electric components to its component-supply portion and which are arranged in a direction intersecting a direction of feeding of the components... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6981437 | Pipe cutting machine A pipe cutting machine comprises a clamping device for holding a pipe to be cut and a pipe cutting apparatus for cutting the pipe by revolving a rotating disc-like cutting blade around the circumferential surface of the pipe held by the clamping device. The pipe cut... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6973714 | Electrically operated chucking apparatus An electrically operated chucking apparatus including (a) an electrically operated chuck including at least two movable members movable toward and away from each other, and at least two drive devices which include respective electrically operated actuators operable ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6971158 | Electric-component mounting system including movable substrate-holding device An electric-component mounting system including component-mounting devices arranged in an array and each having a component-holding head for holding an electric component, and a head-moving device to move the head, and a substrate-transferring device to move at leas... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970763 | Circuit board manufacturing apparatus with protection function for supervising/adjusting mode and method of operating the apparatus A circuit board manufacturing apparatus and a method of operating the same include a protection function for preventing a supervising/adjusting mode to which a limited user only is accessible, from being altered where the mode is left without being logged off. The a... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6958917 | Substrate holding device and electric-circuit fabricating process A substrate holding device for holding a circuit substrate. The substrate holding device has a substrate clamping device including a receiving member and a movable member which is movable to force a portion of the circuit substrate against the receiving member, for ... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6952869 | Electric-component mounting system for mounting electric component on a circuit substrate An electric-component mounting system including a component-holding device for holding an electric component, a board-supporting device for supporting a printed-wiring board on which the electric component is mounted, a first relative-movement device operable to mov... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6941646 | Electric-component mounting system A method of detecting a relative positioning error between a fiducial-mark imaging device and a substrate-holding device in an electric-component mounting system wherein the fiducial-mark imaging device is arranged to take an image of at least one substrate fiducial... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6931718 | Electri-component holding apparatus An electric-component holding apparatus including a component holder which holds an electric component and includes an engaging portion, a holder-holding member to which the component holder is detachably attached, a lock member which consists of a substantially rig... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931716 | Electric-component mounting system In an electric-component mounting system including an illuminating device including a light source which emits a light for illuminating an object, a camera which takes an image of the object, and a processing and controlling device which includes a data processing p... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6918730 | Apparatus for assisting operator in performing manual operations in connection with component feeders An apparatus for assisting an operator of an electric-component supply device including component feeders mounted on feeder support and each accommodating electric components, the apparatus including (a) a position indicator operable to indicate the feeder-mounting ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6910262 | Electric-component handling device An electric-component handling device includes a suction nozzle, fiducial mark, an image-taking device, a relative-movement device and an image data processing device. The electric-component handling device is operable to handle an electric component. ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6885905 | Electric-circuit fabricating system and method, and electric-circuit fabricating program An electric-circuit fabricating system for fabricating an electric circuit, by performing a working operation on a circuit substrate, including a substrate holding device to hold the substrate, an imaging device to image a surface of the substrate on which the worki... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6870745 | Printed-board supporting device, electric-component mounting system, and process of manufacturing printed-circuit board A printed-board holding device for holding a printed board in a work system in which the printed board and a working head are moved relative to each other in a direction parallel with a top surface of the printed board so that the working head executes a desired ope... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6864431 | Fragile-board supporting method, circuit-board supporting device, and electric-circuit manufacturing method A method of supporting a fragile board by a plurality of supporting members formed of respective elastic materials. The method includes steps of: (a) preparing a plurality of first and second supporting members as the supporting members such that the second supporti... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6861269 | Electric-circuit fabricating method and system, and electric-circuit fabricating program A method of fabricating an electric circuit, including first and second working processes of performing respective first and second working operations on a circuit substrate, where3in the first working process includes a first substrate-identifying step of obtaining... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6854418 | Intensive machine for performing a plurality of processes in fabrication of multilayer substrate An object of the present invention is to provide an intensive machine performing a plurality of processes in a series of steps of fabricating a multilayer substrate. In order that the object may be achieved, the invention provides an intensive machine including an i... | 02/15/2005 |
