ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,285, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Component mounter" was invented by Takahiro Kobayashi (Chiryu, Japan) and Kazuya Kotani (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component mounter includes a component supply device equipped with a bulk feeder for supplying multiple components in a bulk state to a supply region for the components, a camera configured to image the supply region, an image processing section configured to execute image processing for distinguishing a region of at least a part of the component from a region of a background in image data acquired through imaging by the camera based ...