Autonomous Flight Vehicle for Substrate Component Conveyance
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Solution Overview
Problem
In substrate working systems, operators face increased work burden and conveyance time due to the need to manually move replacement feeders across multiple mounter modules, leading to inefficiencies and prolonged downtime when components run short.
Innovation Solution
A substrate working system employing a component conveyance flight vehicle that autonomously flies from a storage location to specific mounter modules, reducing the need for operator intervention and allowing direct, efficient delivery over the modules, using necessary article information to prioritize high-demand components and optimize flight paths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If an operator manually conveys replacement feeders from storage to mounter modules, then the system can maintain operation continuity, but the operator's work burden increases and conveyance time is prolonged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical conveyance system with an automated robotic arm system. The robotic arm picks up feeders from the storage unit and delivers them to the mounter modules automatically, eliminating the need for operator intervention in the physical conveyance process while maintaining continuous operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by implementing an automated feeder replenishment mechanism where the mounter modules can request feeders when stock is low, and the robotic system automatically fulfills these requests without human intervention, allowing the system to service itself.
2Ease of operation
If an operator manually moves feeders through multiple mounter modules, then replacement can be performed, but the work burden on the operator increases due to bypassing multiple modules
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic arm acts as an intermediary between the storage unit and the mounter modules. Instead of the operator directly handling feeders and moving through the system, the robotic intermediary performs the conveyance, simplifying the operator's role to monitoring and exception handling while managing the complexity of automated navigation and positioning.
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AI summary
A substrate working system includes a plurality of substrate working apparatuses, a component storage that stores a device and a component to be used by the substrate working apparatuses, and a component conveyance flight vehicle. The component conveyance flight vehicle conveys a conveyance article by flying from the component storage to a predetermined position corresponding to a predetermined substrate working apparatus while holding the conveyance article based on necessary article information of the substrate working apparatuses.