ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,597, issued on June 10, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Component supply control system" was invented by Yuji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Masayoshi Moriyama (Gifu, Japan) and Yusuke Yamazaki (Chiryu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component supply control system includes a state recognition section configured to derive a supply state of a component for each of multiple areas set in advance in a supply region based on image data acquired by imaging the supply region in a state in which a bulk feeder has conveyed multiple components to the supply region by vibration, and a conveyance control section configured to con...