Abstract:
A machine for bonding connectors to the edge of a pcb by a Luc process has upper and lower wheels which are translated along the edge of the pcb for engaging the connectors to be applied respectively to the faces of the board. The relative position of the wheels at any given time is determined by mounting one of them to move with a jaw which closes down onto one of the faces.
Abstract:
An apparatus for connecting wiring patterns on a wiring board and leads of a parts to be mounted on the wiring board, via the solder provided between the leads and the patterns. The parts-connecting apparatus enables, especially, circuit elements of a high degree of, to be connected automatically with high reliability and accuracy by using solder through the steps of setting the wiring board in a predetermined position while pressing a surface thereof so as to remove the warp from the wiring board, fastening the leads of the part to the wiring patterns by a magnet provided on the lower surface of the wiring board, and heating the solder provided on the portions of the leads which are fastened to the wiring patterns.
Abstract:
A circuit board and component manipulation device includes a housing having a circuit board clamp located thereon for positioning a circuit board on the housing. Hot gas for soldering or desoldering operations can be directed to components on the circuit board from one or the other of both an upper gas duct and a lower gas duct, both of which are fed gas from a blower. Each of the ducts include an individual heater located therein so as to control heat input to the gas passing through the ducts. The upper duct terminates in a discharge head which includes a nozzle attached thereto. The nozzle includes an appropriate opening so as to receive a circuit component. The opening is surrounded by a skirt with the gas ducts then positioned outwardly from the skirt. By positioning the component within the skirt, the component is isolated from hot gas utilized for soldering or desoldering of the connectors of the component to an appropriate circuit board.
Abstract:
A soldering apparatus has a base, and a solder tank and a nozzle arranged in tandem with the base. A partition plate is arranged in the solder tank. The partition plate, a bottom plate disposed at the bottom of the solder tank, and a lower plate covering the bottom of the solder tank define a channel communicating with a portion of the solder tank remote form the nozzle and the interior of the nozzle. A moving magnetic field generating mechanism for exerting a force toward the nozzle to a solder in the channel is arranged in the base to extend along the channel under the partition wall. That portion of the solder tank at the side of the nozzle constitutes a wide portion of the same width as that of the nozzle while the remaining portion of the solder tank constitutes a narrow portion.
Abstract:
Printed circuit boards bearing chip type electric parts on its underside surface and travelling along a predetermined path are soldered by contact with a progressive wave of a molten solder progressing in a direction transverse to the path of travel of the printed circuit board. A nozzle member provided with an array of molten solder overflowing ports arranged in a direction transverse to the travelling path is moveable in the same direction so as to form the progressive wave of molten solder.
Abstract:
During the pre-soldering of printed circuit boards, as a rule, also the drill holes or bores and, in particular, the through-metallized drill holes are filled in an undesirable manner with solder. This solder must be removed before mounting the electrical components or elements upon the printed circuit boards. A simple method is disclosed for this purpose, affording a faultless de-soldering of the drill holes, without deleteriously affecting the properties of the solder material. The printed circuit boards, in a condition where the solder applied during the pre-soldering operation is still molten, are accelerated at least once and thereafter suddenly brought to standstill in such a fashion that the excess solder is knocked or propelled out of the drill holes. The apparatus for accomplishing the method contemplates guiding the printed circuit board essentially horizontally in a frame and accelerating such printed circuit board in a guided vertical drop or fall in the direction of an impact location, so that upon concussion of the frame at the impact location the excess solder is downwardly knocked or propelled out.
Abstract:
A method of soldering connection pins on carrier strips to printed circuit boards, notably to thick-film modules. Prior to soldering in a soldering bath, a printed circuit board is detachably connected to the connection pins. An endless carrier strip with the connection pins and printed circuit boards in the upright position is horizontally fed through liquid solder which flows off the components to be soldered at the surface. Solder which does not wet or connect the components flows away at the end of the predetermined soldering path, preferably in the transport direction of the parts, to a level below that of the carrier strip.
Abstract:
A process for connecting flat, film-like components to a printed circuit board includes providing the printed circuit board with through-plated holes whose plating includes a fusible material and extends to contacts on the printed circuit board, positioning the flat, film-like components on the board so that the junctions of the components touch but do not extend into the holes and contacting the printed circuit board on the side opposite to the side with the components with liquid solder which rises in the holes, heats the plating and the junctions and bonds the components to the printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A chip carrier (5) having a plurality of first ends (21--21) is aligned with and bonded to mating lands (34--34) on a PCB substrate (31) by positioning the carrier in a recess of a nozzle (66) on the tool and directing individual streams of hot gas horizontally onto the terminals and lands to cause previously deposited solder thereon to reflow to bond the articles together. Alternatively, articles bonded with reflowable material may be de-bonded in a like manner.
Abstract:
A mass wave soldering apparatus is described. The apparatus comprises a sump having upwardly diagonally extending front and rear walls, and a pair of vertical end walls which cooperate to form an upwardly extending open ended nozzle chamber of increasing plan area. A Z-shaped baffle screen is positioned within the nozzle chamber and distributes the molten solder pumped upwardly in the sump as a wide, smooth substantially unidirectional solder wave ideally contoured for high-speed production soldering.