Abstract:
A liquid food of beverage preparation machine that includes an electric supply circuit connectable to an electric power source; a heater powered by the electric supply circuit; and a thermal fuse device in thermal communication with the heater and associated with the electric supply circuit, the fuse device being arranged to interrupt the electric supply circuit from the power source when the heater exceeds a temperature limit. The thermal fuse device is reversible and includes a switch for automatically interrupting the electric supply circuit when the heater exceeds the temperature limit, the switch being operable by a user to close the electric supply circuit when the heater has a temperature that has returned below the temperature limit.
Abstract:
According to various embodiments, a chip arrangement may be provided, the chip arrangement may include: a first carrier; at least one chip arranged over the first carrier; a flexible structure including a wiring layer structure; and a contact structure arranged between the first carrier and the wiring layer structure, wherein the at least one chip is electrically coupled to the first carrier via the wiring layer structure and the contact structure.
Abstract:
An in-line heating device for a liquid food or beverage preparation machine in which liquid is circulated through the heating device and then guided into a brewing chamber. This heating device includes a thermoblock with a metal mass that incorporates an inlet, an outlet and a heating chamber extending therebetween to form a passage for guiding the liquid circulating through the mass, with the mass arranged to accumulate heat and to supply heat to the liquid; and one or more electric components that are rigidly secured onto or into the thermoblock and that are connected to a printed circuit board or a flex-print arranged to control the thermoblock. The electric components are rigidly connected to the printed circuit board or flex-print, in particular via rigid connector pins or blades or rigid plug and socket members.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a terminal structure of an electronic component, such as a tuner, in which a printed circuit board 1 on which electronic components including a pin header 2 having a plurality of pin terminals, and a case frame 3 housing the printed circuit board and having a notch opening exposing the pin terminals are provided. A guide hole 23 that penetrates from the upper surface of the pin header 2 to its lower surface in contact with the printed circuit board, and a guide axis 33—insertable into the guide hole 23—provided in a press portion 32 are provided, such that the pin header is held between the press portion 32 provided in the case frame 3 and the printed circuit board, enabling the pin header, even a slim, compact one, having a plurality of pin terminals to be fixed accurately to a predetermined position on the board with a predetermined posture.
Abstract:
A flexible LED screen includes a flexible printed circuit board having a front surface and a rear surface, a plurality of SMT-LEDs mounted on the front surface of the flexible printed circuit board, and a plurality of integrated circuits mounted on the rear surface of the flexible printed circuit board.
Abstract:
In a Hall IC type current sensor of a vehicle-mounted power converter which includes a bus bar which supplies electricity to a vehicle-mounted power converter, a Hall IC which detects a current supplied to the bus bar, and a control board on which a control circuit which controls the vehicle-mounted power converter in response to an output of the Hall IC is mounted, the current sensor further includes a Hall IC holder which holds the Hall IC and is also fixed to the bus bar, and a through hole which is formed in the control board and which allows a lead terminal of the Hall IC to pass therethrough, and the lead terminal which passes through the through hole is connected with the control circuit by solder bonding.
Abstract:
In a Hall IC type current sensor of a vehicle-mounted power converter which includes a bus bar which supplies electricity to a vehicle-mounted power converter, a Hall IC which detects a current supplied to the bus bar, and a control board on which a control circuit which controls the vehicle-mounted power converter in response to an output of the Hall IC is mounted, the current sensor further includes a Hall IC holder which holds the Hall IC and is also fixed to the bus bar, and a through hole which is formed in the control board and which allows a lead terminal of the Hall IC to pass therethrough, and the lead terminal which passes through the through hole is connected with the control circuit by solder bonding.
Abstract:
A mounting structure for mounting a printed circuit board on a frame of an electronic device. The mounting structure comprises a body, a lead, and a threaded portion. The threaded portion is formed on the body, and receives a screw. The printed circuit board is secured to a frame of an electronic device using the mounting structure. Specifically, the mounting structure is secured to the frame using the screw. The lead is soldered to lands on a mounting surface of the printed circuit board by a process for mounting electronic parts (e.g. an IC or LSI package) on the mounting surface of the electronic device.
Abstract:
A fluidic gas meter including a flow path structure provided with a fluidic element, a cut-off valve, a pressure switch, a flow sensor, a piezoelectric film sensor, an electronic circuit unit, and a wiring board serving as a mother board and having a function of lead wires. Each of the cut-off valve, the pressure switch, the flow sensor and the piezoelectric film sensor are fixed to the flow path structure. The electronic circuit unit is made up of a counter board and a control circuit board. The counter board is mounted with an electronic circuit for counting up flow-rate signals from the flow sensor and the piezoelectric film sensor and a liquid crystal display device for displaying the amount of gas consumed. The control circuit board is mounted with a control circuit for controlling the cut-off valve, wherein each of the cut-off valve, the pressure switch, the flow sensor, the piezoelectric film sensor and the electronic circuit unit is provided with a plurality of terminals extending perpendicularly to the wiring board. The wiring board is provided with a printed circuit for the interconnection among the terminals. The wiring board has a plurality of V-shaped guide grooves formed therein for receiving the terminals and guiding the terminals to through holes formed at an apex of the V-shape of the guide grooves, wherein the terminals form an electrical connection with the printed circuit of the circuit board, thereby avoiding wiring errors.
Abstract:
A method for attaining a tolerance-insensitive connection of a conductor track foil with contact pins of an electrical component. The conductor track foil includes two insulating layers with an intervening conducting layer with lands in the upper layer for soldering the conductive layer to the contact pins of the electrical component. The conductor track foil is lowered, positionally correctly, onto the electrical component by use of a mounting device. The bottom insulating layer and the conducting layer of the soldering lands, which are free of an insulating layer on the top, are pierced by the contact pins extending at right angles to the conductor track foil. The conductor track foil is released by the mounting apparatus. A soldered connection is made between the lands and the contact pins. As a result, an electrically reliably gap free conducting connection is attainable even if the contact pins are eccentrically associated with the soldering lands.