Abstract:
An electrical system includes a printed circuit board with conductive traces formed thereon. An electrical connector includes an insulative base with an array of cells defined therein. Each cell receives and retains a conductive contact having a tail portion corresponding to the conductive traces. Soldering pre-forms are arranged between the conductive traces and the tail portions. A heat distributor includes a thermally conductive base plate positioned on the connector base and thermally conductive pins extending from the base plate. The base plate is positioned on the connector base with the pins inserted into the cells and thermally engaging selected contacts so as to create a homogenous heat transfer to/from the soldering pre-forms thereby eliminating heat stress among the soldering pre-forms
Abstract:
Disclosed is a foolproof polarity indication of poled electronics parts or devices to be given to a printed circuit board to assure that poled electronics parts and/or devices be correctly mounted in respect of their polarities to meet occasional requirements dependent on different specifications. Each pair of terminal holes are allotted to a given poled electronics part or device. Two symbols representative of such electronics part or device are arranged side by side on either side of the line drawn from one to the other terminal hole. The poled electronics part or device symbols are of reversed polarities. This dual symbol arrangement is effective to draw workers' attention in mounting electrode components in terms of their polarities. When extra components or dummy ones are combined with such a poled component, they are encircled by a boundary line, thereby showing the correct polarity direction of the poled component in respect of whether it is enclosed or not.
Abstract:
A ball grid array unit suitable for calibrating an inspection system, comprising a substrate and an array of balls mounted on a surface of the substrate, the balls having a melting point greater than 400 degrees centigrade or a Britnell hardness number greater than 150.
Abstract:
A printed wiring board device includes circuit parts which are mounted on a wiring board and constitute parts of a circuit in the printed wiring board device. Pads are provided on the wiring board in the circumference of the circuit parts, and the pads being electrically isolated from the circuit. Heat-absorbing dummy parts are mounted on the pads, and the dummy parts absorb heat from the circuit parts through the pads during reflow soldering.
Abstract:
A circuit board permits common use of the same circuit board without separately manufacturing the circuit board per providing destinations when similar circuit boards are manufactured for a plurality of providing destinations in the same factory. The circuit board has at least a first providing destination indicating region on which a first providing destination is indicated and a second providing destination indicating region located adjacent the first providing destination indicating region, on which second providing destination region, a second providing destination is indicated, the providing destination indicating regions other than that indicating an intended providing destination being hidden by mounting parts thereon.
Abstract:
A filling system includes a pressurized source of fill material and a pressure fill head wherein the fill head also includes a heating element positioned so as to transfer heat to fill material passing through the fill head. A method of filling holes using a fill material passing through a pressure fill head includes the steps of causing fill material to enter the fill head, modifying the viscosity of the fill material while it is within the fill head, and causing the modified viscosity fill material to exit the fill head and enter at least one hole.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for calibrating surface mounting processes in the manufacturing of printed circuit board assemblies. In one embodiment of a method in accordance with the invention, a test pad of adhesive is deposited onto a substrate, and then a test module is mounted to the substrate at the test pad. The test module is representative of an electrical component that is to be mounted to a printed circuit board, and the test module is mounted to the substrate in a manner in which the electrical component is to be mounted to a printed circuit board. After the test module is mounted to the substrate, the profile of the test pad is detected through the substrate and/or the test module to determine whether the test pad contacts enough of the test module to sufficiently adhere the test module to the substrate without interfering with the terminals of the test module. Accordingly, this embodiment of the inventive method provides an indication or estimate of the desired volume of an adhesive pad to mount a specific component to a PCB.
Abstract:
An apparatus for producing a multi-layer printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a bottom layer board, a hole board, and an adhesive sheet between the bottom layer board and the hole board. The printed circuit board is heated so that adhesive sheet bonds the bottom layer board to the hole board. A mold release sheet and a thermoplastic resin sheet begins to soften at a temperature lower than the melting temperature of the adhesive. A contraction control member controls contraction when the thermoplastic resin sheet cools.
Abstract:
A mold used in producing printed wiring board is disclosed. The mold comprises upper dies and lower dies for sandwiching a printed wiring board therebetween, thereby performing drilling, punching or the like, one of said upper dies and lower dies having a press surface which is provided with concave or convex portions for absorbing steps caused by forming a printed wiring circuit on the printed wiring board.
Abstract:
A multi-layer printed circuit board is disclosed as having more layers and greater accuracy in the conductive traces of those layers than has been previously possible. Using the disclosed method, multi-layer printed circuit boards can be built having a conductive path width of 0.5 mils (0.0127 mm) and spacing between such conductive traces of 0.5 mils (0.0127 mm). The method enables multi-layer boards to be created having more than eight layers, and still maintaining the desired 0.5 mil conductive path width and spacing. The enhanced accuracy and increased number of layers is made possible by use of adjustments to customer-supplied art work based upon evaluation of test pieces made early in the procedure. By use of the disclosed method, multi-layer printed circuit boards can be built having a high density of coaxial cable equivalents and tuned wave guide equivalents. An apparatus is also disclosed which connects the coaxial cable equivalents and tuned wave guide equivalents from one multi-layer printed circuit board to a second multi-layer printed circuit board.