JP2005101644A - Operation device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow an operator to select a language to be used for voice or text information for explaining operation and the like for the convenience of the operator. <P>SOLUTION: A storage device 30 stores voice information and/or text information for explaining operation and/or maintenance and/or repair of an electronic part mounting device 1 in a plurality of languages, and when an operator selects a language to be used for information stored in the storage device 30 using an operation section 20, as a selection means, a speaker 19 or a display 18 for explanation, as an output means, outputs the voice information and/or text information in the selected language. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a work device that performs a predetermined work in response to an operation of an operation unit.

As a working device that displays information about a description of maintenance or repair instead of reading this type of operation and instruction manual or outputting it as sound, for example, a device described in Patent Document 1 is known. According to this prior art, a video for explaining operation, maintenance, or repair is displayed on a display for operation of a component mounting apparatus that is a work apparatus. Also, a medium for storing the information is loaded into the apparatus and reproduced in the apparatus to output video or audio.
JP 7-266271 A

  However, such a conventional work apparatus has a drawback that it is not easy to use because the operator cannot select the language of the voice or character information for explaining the operation according to the language used by the worker himself. It was.

  Therefore, the present invention improves the usability by allowing the operator to select the language of the voice or character information for explaining the operation when the operator obtains information such as operation or maintenance of the apparatus. With the goal.

  Therefore, according to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a work device that performs a predetermined work in response to an operation of the operation unit, and includes a plurality of audio information and / or character information about the operation and / or maintenance and / or repair of the device. A storage device that stores the information in the language, a selection unit that selects a language of the information stored in the storage device by an operator's operation, and outputs the voice information and / or character information in the language selected by the selection unit And an output means.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the storage device stores moving image information about a description of operation and / or maintenance and / or repair of the device, and the output means is stored in the storage device A moving image is displayed.

  According to the first invention, since the operator can select the language of the voice for explaining operations or the character information, it is possible to make the operator easy to use.

  Furthermore, according to the second invention, the operation and the like are explained by displaying the video of the moving image, so that the explanation can be easily understood by the operator.

  Hereinafter, the working device will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  An electronic component mounting apparatus 1 as a working device shown in FIG. 1 performs an operation of mounting a chip-shaped electronic component on a printed circuit board, and the electronic component is mounted on the printed circuit board that the conveyor 10 supplies and conveys from the upstream device. Thereafter, the conveyor 10 discharges and conveys it to a downstream apparatus. The mounting apparatus 1 has a mounting head 2 mounted below a horizontally moving XY table that vacuum-sucks components from a component supply unit provided with a plurality of component supply units and positions them at a predetermined position on the conveyor 10. An electronic component is mounted on the printed circuit board.

  An operation unit 3 for operating the device 1 is provided on the front surface of the device 1, and an operation of mounting electronic components on a printed board in a predetermined procedure in response to the operation of the operation unit 3 is performed. is there. An operation message for assisting the operation by the operation of the operation unit 3 or data necessary for the work is displayed on the CRT display 4 as an operation display.

  A disk drive 5 for reproducing an optical disk as a storage medium such as a CD-ROM is installed below the front of the apparatus 1 and has a disk insertion slot 6.

  This optical disk may be a DVD (digital video disk), and a DVD with a large storage capacity is advantageous for handling moving images.

  A part or all of the information on the operation, maintenance, or repair of the electronic component mounting apparatus 1 is stored on the optical disc.

  From the main body of the electronic component mounting apparatus 1, an arm 15 that can rotate about a shaft 14 as a fulcrum extends in a horizontal plane, and the arm 15 is provided on a rotary table 17 that can rotate 360 degrees about a shaft 16 as a fulcrum. A display 18 is installed. The arm 15 and the rotary table 17 can be stationary at an arbitrary rotational position. The arm 15 may be further movable in the vertical direction.

  The display 18 is a thin liquid crystal panel or plasma display, and can be removed from the rotary table 17 and is light in weight so that the operator can hold it by hand. It is made to be able to.

  The display 18 is configured such that a pressable touch panel switch can be displayed on the screen. Under the control of the control unit 23, in response to the operation of the operation unit 20, the touch panel switch, etc., the disk reproduction by the drive of the disk drive or the display 18 is performed. Is displayed.

  When the display 18 is removed, the audio and video signals and the power supply cable may be extended as they are. However, as shown in FIG. The removed cable 22 may be connected. If this connection terminal is provided at least at two locations on the front and back sides of the device 1 or at a plurality of other locations, the display 18 can be checked while the operator is working at any location. Can do. In addition, when the removed display 18 is not held in the hand, it is preferable that the user keeps sitting with the display 18 standing up even if it is placed on the floor or the like.

  Hereinafter, an operation of reproducing the contents of the explanation recorded there using the optical disc will be described.

  When an operation unit 20 is operated by loading an optical disk on which an operation or the like is recorded from the insertion slot 6 of the disk drive 5, the content is displayed on the display 18, and when there is audio information, the audio is explained from the speaker 19. Is made.

  The contents of operations on the optical disk are used by the operator to learn how to operate, etc. before operating the device 1, and after understanding the operation, operations, maintenance, repairs, etc. In both cases, the contents are displayed on the display 18 by the operation of the operation unit 20 in the same manner. However, when the operation is used as a reference, the operation of the apparatus 1 is performed as follows. It is possible to operate the operation unit 3 while displaying information necessary for the operation on the display 4, and to confirm an explanation of the operation on the display 18 in parallel.

  In addition, in the case where the description by voice is recorded in a plurality of words on the same disk, a language that can be understood by the operator can be selected by operating the operation unit 20. In this selection, as shown in FIG. 3, a list of selectable languages is displayed on the initial screen displayed first, and a touch panel switch unit is formed for each language, and the switch unit of the word to be selected is pressed. Can be selected. This screen is the initial screen, but it can be called and changed at any time. In addition, when displaying character information on the screen, it is only necessary to select a language that can be understood if it is recorded in multiple languages. It will be in the selected language. It should be noted that an operation guide for making this selection in each language is output from the speaker 19 by pressing the voice switch section.

  Next, the contents of the table of contents are recorded on the disc, but when the switch section indicated as the next page is pressed on the initial screen of FIG. 3, the table of contents of the items recorded on the disc is hierarchically displayed. The detailed items are displayed, and what is written is displayed. Since these are stored as character information in the disk, a large amount of information can be stored on a single disk without requiring much storage capacity. A DVD-ROM based on the DVD disc is said to have a storage capacity seven times that of a CD-ROM, and can record a larger amount of information.

  By looking at this table of contents and finding an item to be confirmed and inputting the item or page after pressing the item selection or page selection switch section, the first page of the item or the selected page is displayed. These display the contents written on each page of the so-called instruction manual that is a book, but the character portion is character information, but the illustration portion or the photograph portion is recorded as image information. Is played. In this case, unless another page is selected on the screen, the screen of the same page is continuously displayed, that is, the still image is continuously displayed. If you want to see the next page, press the switch on the next page and the page will change. If you want to see the previous page, just press the switch on the previous page.

  Depending on the item, as shown in FIG. 4, the switch portion indicated as video is displayed, but when the switch portion which is the start display of the moving image is pressed, the control portion 23 which is the moving image start means The selection is detected, and the moving image information related to the corresponding item is read from the storage area of the disc, and the video of the moving image is displayed on the screen. This is similarly performed when the cursor is moved to a predetermined field without using the touch panel switch and the position is determined by the execution key.

  The moving image screen is displayed on the entire display screen, but a display window may be opened and displayed on a part of the character information screen. As shown in FIG. 5, the screen is accompanied by switch portions such as playback, fast forward, stop, screen return, slow playback in slow motion, and pause as a still image, which can be viewed as many times as necessary. The original page is displayed when all the videos are completed or when the stop is pressed. When a video movie is being played back, in principle, an explanation is given at the same time. However, in the case of slow reproduction, it is cut or corrected to a pitch that does not feel strange when heard.

  These images are particularly useful when operations and tasks are difficult to explain in text. For example, when a component supply unit is attached to or detached from a component supply unit, when a tape storage component or a bulk component is attached to or removed from a component supply unit, when a nozzle that picks up a component is replaced with a mounting head, various adjustments are made. Visualize the scenes to be used, scenes to supply grease or oil, scenes to be used for repair after removing the exterior of the device, and scenes that show the procedure for recovering when an abnormality occurs. In addition, it is also possible to show a basic driving operation with a moving image. These scenes may be created by actually performing the operation and may be created as an animation, or may be created by a computer graphic technique.

  In this way, when it is desired to confirm the operation, the operation is confirmed on the page of the table of contents, and the page of the item of the operation is displayed on the display by pressing the switch portion of the item selection and key-in of the page or the like. If the necessary text is read or if there is an explanation of the moving image, and the moving image is displayed and understood by pressing the switch portion of the video of that portion, the operation unit 3 performs the actual operation. This video switch section may be selected so that it is displayed on each item of the table of contents page.

  Or, for example, when replacing the nozzle for maintenance, if the replacement method is not well understood, the display 18 is rotated to the easy-to-view position by rotating the arm 15 or the rotary table 17 or is easily viewed. Then, the corresponding page (for example, FIG. 4) is displayed in the same manner, and the video switch unit is pressed to display the video of the moving image. If you replace the nozzle while watching this video, you can easily work.

  Similarly, it is possible to perform setup changes such as repairs and replacement of parts supply units while watching or listening to the explanation on the display.

  In addition, in order to explain the series of work by editing only the video for the whole or for each major item, it is possible to understand for a while with the video of the continuous video when educating the operator at the time of introducing the device. It can also be. In such a case, a switch section for executing it may be provided on the page of the table of contents.

  Next, as shown in FIG. 6 as the second embodiment, necessary data can be received by communication and the explanation can be reproduced.

  That is, necessary information is collectively stored in a central storage device 25 as an external device that functions as a database installed in a facility such as a device manufacturer, and the device is stored in the storage unit 25 via a communication line 26. 1 is connected to display necessary information on the display 28 of the apparatus 1 or output by voice. Whether the display in the form of the explanation display 18 of the first embodiment is used as the display or the display corresponding to the operation display 4 is shared, the recognition screen is displayed by the device that recognizes the parts. If there is a display for use, the display may be shared.

  The transmitted information is received by the communication unit 29, and is temporarily stored in the storage device 30. The content is sequentially read and reproduced by the reproduction device 31, and is output from the display 28 and the speaker 32 as output means.

  The operator does not need to be particularly aware of the data transmission / reception operation after the line is connected. If the switch part of the touch panel is pressed as described above, the explanation can be displayed on the display. If the transmission to the communication unit 29 in the apparatus 1 that performs transmission / reception is a single transmission and the moving image part is also included for each item of a predetermined unit, the page feed etc. is performed quickly in that item. However, if an item that is not currently stored in the storage device 30 is designated, it is performed after waiting for data reception.

  However, if the content of the entire description is large, it will not fit in one optical disk, so it will be stored in a plurality of disks. This makes it difficult to manage, and when a description of a certain item is supplemented or revised, such a communication system is mounted with electronic components compared to having to replace the disk. If the device 1 or the like is constructed as a terminal device, there is no trouble and management becomes easy.

  The central storage device 25 can be installed in a factory of a large factory in addition to the facilities of a device manufacturer or a sales company. The device 25 includes not only one type of device but also other types of devices. This stores information on the handling instructions.

  Note that the operation performed by the touch panel switch in the above is provided with a column where the cursor is moved in the screen, and the cursor is moved to the item column to be selected with the cursor movement key provided on the operation unit 20. Similarly, it may be performed by pressing the execution key provided in the operation unit 20, or the mouse cursor in the screen is moved to a position corresponding to the switch unit in the case of a touch panel switch by clicking with a pointing device such as a mouse. You may perform by operation etc.

  Also, typical switch sections such as next page, previous page, page designation, and item designation may be prepared as function keys in the operation section. That is, it is only necessary to be able to detect that a specific position on the screen is selected by some means and to execute the contents to be executed indicated by the selection of the position.

  Moreover, although this embodiment demonstrated the electronic component mounting apparatus, the screen printer which prints paste solder on the printed circuit board installed in the same line as this, the adhesive agent which apply | coats the adhesive agent for temporarily fixing components It can also be applied to a coating device or a reflow furnace that melts paste solder and solders the component to the substrate. Also, even in the same electronic component mounting device, a predetermined component supply position is provided by a plurality of heads installed on the periphery of the rotating rotary table. Thus, the present invention can also be applied to an apparatus that takes out a component from the component supply unit, conveys the component by rotating the table, and mounts the component on a substrate at a predetermined mounting position. Furthermore, the present invention can be applied not only to a device for mounting components on a board but also to a working device in which a predetermined work is performed by a predetermined procedure by an operation unit.

1 is a front view of an electronic component mounting apparatus to which the present invention is applied. It is a front view of the same electronic component mounting apparatus. It is a figure of the initial screen displayed on the display for description. It is a figure of the display screen of the character information which shows the description displayed on the display for description. It is a figure of the screen which displays the image | video of the moving image displayed on the display for description. It is a block diagram which shows a communication system.

Explanation of symbols

1 Electronic component mounting device (terminal device)
3 Operation section 4 CRT display (operation assistance screen)
5 Disk drive (storage device)
15 Arm 17 Rotary table 18 Display for explanation (output means)
19 Speaker (output means)
20 Operation part (selection means)
23 Control unit (moving image starting means)
25 Central storage device 26 Communication line 28 Display 29 Communication unit (receiving means)
30 Storage device 31 Playback device 32 Speaker

Claims (2)

  A storage device that stores voice information and / or text information about a description of operation and / or maintenance and / or repair of the device in a plurality of languages in a working device that performs a predetermined work in response to an operation of an operation unit; A selection unit that selects a language of the information stored in the storage device by an operation of an operator; and an output unit that outputs the voice information and / or character information of the language selected by the selection unit. A working device characterized by. The storage device stores moving image information about an explanation related to operation and / or maintenance and / or repair of the device, and the output means displays a moving image stored in the storage device. The working apparatus according to 1.

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