Component Supply Device Identification and Separation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Component supply devices face challenges in accurately identifying and separating components on a stage for proper supply, leading to inefficiencies and potential mixing of different components.

Innovation Solution

A component supply device equipped with an imaging device, storage device, and determination device that uses identification information to differentiate between scheduled and unscheduled components based on imaging data, ensuring accurate identification and separation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If components are scattered on a stage without differentiation, then the stage can hold multiple components, but it becomes difficult to identify and separate scheduled components from unscheduled components

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of components on stageVSAvoidcomponent identification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) by storing identification information that enables the imaging device to distinguish between scheduled and unscheduled components. The determination device uses this identification information to visually or digitally differentiate components, allowing accurate identification even when multiple components are scattered together on the stage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of the imaging device, storage device, and determination device. This intermediary system processes identification information to differentiate between components, acting as a mediator between the scattered components and the supply mechanism, enabling accurate identification without physical separation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If all components on stage are processed for identification, then no component is missed, but the processing time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomponent supply accuracyVSAvoidcomponent identification time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the necessary identification information from components for determination. Rather than processing all possible component attributes, the system focuses on storing and comparing specific identification information that distinguishes scheduled from unscheduled components, reducing processing time while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary action by storing identification information in advance in the storage device. This pre-stored information is then quickly compared with imaging data during the supply process, eliminating the need for complex real-time analysis and significantly reducing identification time while ensuring accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If the system uses detailed identification information for each component, then component differentiation is accurate, but the storage requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomponent differentiation accuracyVSAvoidsystem structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses copying by storing identification information (a digital copy or representation of component characteristics) in the storage device. This copied information can be quickly retrieved and compared with imaging data without requiring the physical presence or complex analysis of each component, achieving accurate differentiation with simplified system structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

4Productivity

If unscheduled components remain on stage, then the stage utilization is high, but the risk of supplying wrong components increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestage utilization rateVSAvoidcomponent supply reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback by continuously comparing imaging data with stored identification information through the determination device. This feedback mechanism ensures that even unscheduled components remaining on stage are correctly identified and not supplied, maintaining high reliability while allowing maximum stage utilization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11510352B2Component supply device

Publication Date: 2022.11.22 FUJI CORP

AI summary

A component supply device, including a stage on which components are scattered; an imaging device configured to image components scattered on the stage; a storage device configured to store first identification information capable of identifying a first component which is a component scheduled to be supplied from the stage and second identification information capable of identifying a second component which is a component not scheduled to be supplied from the stage; and a determination device configured to determine whether the first component is present on the stage based on the first identification information and imaging data from the imaging device, and to determine whether the second component is present on the stage based on the second identification information and imaging data from the imaging device.