Electronic Component Packaging With Subunit Traceability Codes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic components do not provide a way to specify production information, making it difficult to determine if production system abnormalities occur when component characteristics deteriorate during use.

Innovation Solution

An electronic component with a packaging that includes an identifier for each subunit, allowing for the management of production information associated with each subunit, enabling the tracking of production details such as production system state and inspection results.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If an identifier for identifying subunits is provided on the packaging, then production information can be specified and quality control is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequality controlVSAvoidpackaging structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The production lot is divided into multiple subunits, and each subunit is assigned a unique identifier on the packaging. This segmentation allows individual tracking of each subunit's production information, enabling precise quality control and traceability without requiring complex overall system changes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The identifier is provided on the packaging during the production process itself, before the product leaves the manufacturing line. This preliminary action ensures that production information is captured and associated with each subunit from the outset, eliminating the need for complex post-production tracking systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If production information is tracked for each subunit, then abnormality detection capability is improved, but information management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveabnormality detectionVSAvoidinformation management

Core Design Contradiction:

Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The identifier on the packaging enables feedback mechanisms where production information for each subunit can be recorded, stored, and retrieved. This allows abnormalities to be detected by comparing actual production data against expected parameters, while the structured feedback system prevents information loss through systematic data management.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The identifier acts as an intermediary between the physical subunit and its production information. This mediator enables efficient information management by providing a simple reference point that links the physical object to its data record, reducing the complexity of information tracking while improving abnormality detection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12051550B2Electronic component, production method for electronic component, management method for electronic component, and program

Publication Date: 2024.07.30 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD

AI summary

An electronic component (for example, an electrolytic capacitor) includes an internal element (for example, a capacitor element) and a packaging (for example, a case). The production lot for the internal element includes a plurality of subunits. The packaging is provided with an identifier for identifying the plurality of subunits. By this configuration, it is possible to provide an electronic component capable of specifying production information, a production method for the electronic component, a management method for the electronic component, and a program. The identifier may be provided on the packaging as a display. Further, the identifier may be a one-dimensional code or a two-dimensional code.