Abstract:
This invention provides a machine for simultaneously soldering or unsoldering a multiple connection component on a printed circuit board. The machine consists of a pot suitable for holding liquid at a temperature above the melting point of solder. A piston is fitted in the pot, and there is a channel passing through the piston. When the piston is depressed the hot liquid held in the pot rises up through the channel. The component to be soldered or unsoldered is positioned so that the surface of the hot displaced liquid comes in contact with the joints to be soldered or unsoldered.
Abstract:
1,110,892. Soldering. BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (OPERATING) Ltd. 22 April, 1966 [28 April, 1965], No. 17888/65. Heading B3R. The subject matter of this Specification is substantially the same as that described in Specification 1,110,891 but the claims are concerned with a method of wave soldering parts mounted on a board wherein the solder encountered by the parts to be soldered as the board passes over the solder wave flows in a direction opposite to that of the board's travel having emerged from a nozzle and travelled along an upwardly inclined member extending from the nozzle and been reversed in direction by an upstanding lip at the end of the inclined member and with apparatus for use in the method.
Abstract:
Apparatus for applying solder to a conducting surface on a wiring board includes a heated tank 10, Fig. 1, having a supply of molten solder 11, a layer of molten wax 45 on the supply of solder to seal it against air, a platform 26, Fig. 2, over which a stream of solder is pumped from the supply, and means 40, Fig. 1, to guide a wiring board so that the stream of solder contacts the board's conducting surface. The wax layer is excluded from the region of the platform. Excess solder is removed from the board by rollers 21, 22. Roller 21 dips into the wax and roller 22 is spring loaded at 54. The levels of solder and wax in the tank are controlled at 36 and 61. The solder is circulated as indicated in Fig. 2 by a pump 28, Fig. 1, and the rate of circulation controlled by valves 34 and 35. Wax from an overflow tank 60 is recirculated to the tank 10 by a pump 62.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit (IC) device is mounted onto a printed circuit board (PCB) by inducing a magnetic field of a selected strength at the surface of the PCB to temporarily hold the IC device onto the PCB. The IC device is provided with magnetic material which is attracted by the magnetic field. The magnetic field is maintained while the IC device and PCB are tested, and then subsequently during soldering when the IC device is permanently bonded to the PCB.
Abstract:
A soldering device adaptable to dipping method for preventing neighboring leads (L) from being mixed in molten lead (Pb) even though spaces between leads (L) of parts mounted to a PCB substrate (P) are relatively narrow, the device having a lead tub where molten lead is filled up to an upper end thereof and maintained at a predetermined temperature, the device comprising a receiving plate disposed at an upper surface of the lead tub and formed with a receiving unit for soldered parts of PCB substrate to contact the molten lead, a fixing unit mounted at the receiving plate for the PCB substrate to be accommodated with, detached from and fixed to the receiving unit, and an elevation arranged to elevate the receiving plate horizontally and slantingly.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for placing and attaching solder balls to a substrate having conductive pads in a predetermined pattern is disclosed. The substrate is placed on a carrier plate. An alignment plate having holes corresponding to the predetermined pattern is mated to the carrier plate with its holes aligned with the predetermine pattern on the substrate. Solder balls are loaded into each hole of the alignment plate. The solder balls may be loaded with a vacuum plate which uses vacuum to pick up solder balls in the predetermined pattern and place them over the holes on the alignment plate. The vacuum is released for dropping the balls in the holes of the alignment plate. Alternatively a shutter plate having holes corresponding to the holes on the alignment plate is fitted on the alignment plate and afforded slidable movement between an offset position and an aligned position. A ball is loaded in each hole in the shutter plate when it is in its offset position. The shutter plate is then slid its aligned position wherein its holes are aligned with the holes on the alignment plate causing the balls to drop into the holes on the alignment plate and onto a conductive pad of the substrate. The assembly of carrier and alignment plate is then heated in a non-oxidizing atmosphere in a furnace causing the solder balls to reflow and attach to the pads on the substrate.