Abstract:
A substrate 6a having terminals 9 thereon is bonded to a wiring board 11 having output terminals 11c thereon through an ACP 20. The pitch P2 of the output terminals 11c is different from the pitch P1 of the terminals 9 taking into account deformation of the substrate 6a or the wiring board 11 during bonding. When the substrate 6a or the wiring board 11 deforms during the bonding, the both terminals are connected with the pitch P1null of the terminals 9 and the pitch P2null of the output terminals 11c becoming approximately equal to each other.
Abstract:
A method of verifying a predetermined lead alignment of a component having a physical asymmetry corresponding to an alignment of the leads is provided. The method includes placing the component in a recess in a surface of a nest, wherein the recess corresponds to and mates with the physical asymmetry on the component and detecting whether the physical asymmetry has mated with the recess.
Abstract:
The workpiece or pack of printed circuit boards is fitted to a clamping fixture carried by the table and is machined by a machining head; the head and the table being movable with respect to each other along two coordinate X, Y axes. The aligning method includes the steps of providing the pack with two locating holes; fitting the pack to the fixture; determining the distances between the real positions of the holes and two reference positions; and moving the pack on the fixture to eliminate the distances. The aligning device has an optoelectronic sensor carried by the head to determine the real position of each hole; and a number of motors controlled on the basis of the real position of each hole to move a locating member for locating a first pin on the pack, and to move one bar of a pair of bars for clamping the other pin on the pack.
Abstract:
In a method of assembling an electronic component onto a substrate, a fiducial is defined by a solder mask positioned upon the substrate. A fiducial-defining window in the mask has a base of the window completely provided with a material of different light-reflecting quality than the mask surface. This provides for the peripheral edge of the window, i.e. the mask, to be the edge of the fiducial. Windows in the mask which expose terminal pads upon the substrate and fixed in position relative to edges of the fiducial and both these windows and the fiducial are determined by the mask. Surface mount components are then located upon the substrate relative to the window positions and not relative to the terminal pad positions. This process reduces the number of incorrect connections of terminals of components to terminal pads.
Abstract:
A structure and method of mounting a driver IC using an anisotropic conductive film (ACF) in a liquid crystal display device is disclosed. ACFs are used in bonding a FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) and in a COG (Chip on Glass) process at the same time. A film according to the present invention comprises a support film, a COG ACF adhered on one portion of the support film and a FPC ACF adhered on the other portion of the support film. Using the film disclosed in the present invention, the manufacturing process of the LCD panel becomes simpler and easier.
Abstract:
A lattice of a wiring or terminal pattern is varied at areas on a wiring board. The spacing of the wiring lattice is reduced only in a predetermined area for a device having many terminals. An alignment pattern is provided in the predetermined area. The spacing of the wiring lattice in the central portion of the wiring board may be the finest and may get gradually coarser toward the peripheral portion of the wiring lattice.
Abstract:
A printed circuit board is provided to which a device such as a tape carrier package having a multiplicity of leads arranged with a small pitch is connected by a local heating method using a bonding tool. The upper surfaces of solder layers provided on lands formed on the printed circuit board are flattened prior to leads of an electronic part to be mounted being placed on the solder layers. The leads are soldered to the lands by being pressed and heated with the bonding tool. At least a region of the printed circuit board corresponding to the bottom surface of the bonding tool has a height lower than that of the leads superposed on the lands, so that the desired parallelism of the bottom surface of the bonding tool with respect to the printed circuit board is maintained.
Abstract:
An apparatus for automatically making a laminated electrical or electronic device has a series of processing stations including an inspection station for inspecting the quality of printing at a series of indexed segments on a ceramic coated, continuous tape, a stack and tack station at which sequential segments of the tape are cut and stacked on top of each other to form a stack having a selected number of layers, a lamination station in which the stacked layers are laminated together, and a cutting station at which the stack is cut into a plurality of individual chips, a tape feed mechanism for indexing the tape segments sequentially through the inspection station and stack and tack station, and a drive mechanism for moving a stack from the stack and tack station through the lamination station and cutting station.
Abstract:
In a die cutting press for elongated material, a registration system includes a die unit that is shiftable along the path of travel of the material, along a direction of travel transverse to the path of travel, and about a reference axis perpendicular to a plane containing the material. At least one camera is provided for receiving images from the desired locations that are occupied by indicia on the material when defined areas of the material are in a predetermined relationship relative to the die unit. Reference image data representative of the desired locations of the indicia relative to the die unit is produced so that a comparison can be made between the reference image data and the actual positions of the indicia. This permits a controller to change the position of the die unit relative to the material to compensate for the difference in position between the indicia within the image and the desired locations of the indicia so that one of the defined areas of the material is positioned in the desired predetermined relationship with the die unit.
Abstract:
An electric circuit substrate having a multilayer structure is constituted from at least three wiring layers including an outermost wiring layer, at least one first inner wiring layer disposed under the outermost wiring layer, and a second inner wiring layer disposed under the at least one first inner wiring layer, each provided with a prescribed conductor pattern, respectively. In the multilayer structure, the outermost wiring layer has an alignment mark, the above-mentioned at least one first inner wiring layer has a blank portion free from its conductor pattern in a position immediately under the alignment mark, and the second inner wiring layer has an entire solid portion of its conductor pattern in a position immediately under the blank portion. The above multilayer structure including the alignment mark is effective in preventing recognition error or recognition failure of the alignment mark, thus allowing accurate positioning of the electric circuit substrate.