Abstract:
Durchlaufofen zum Löten von auf Leiterplatten montierten Bauelementen, der ein durch ein Ofeninnengehäuse geführtes Förderband aufweist, das die Leiterplatten von einer Einlaufzone über eine Vorheizzone, eine Reflowzone und eine Kühlzone zu einer Auslaufzone führt, wobei entlang des Förderbands im Bereich der Vorheiz-, Reflow- und Kühlzone eine Prozeßgasströmung aufrechterhalten wird und wobei entlang der Förderstrecke mindestens eine Kondensationseinrichtung, die mittels eines Fluids gekühlte Kondensationsflächen sowie einen Kondensat-Sammelbehälter aufweist, vorgesehen ist, die flüchtige Bestandteile der Leiterplatten und/oder der Lötpasten aus der Prozeßgasströmung auskondensiert, der dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, daß die Kondensationseinrichtung als Moduleinheit mit Gehäuse ausgebildet ist, wobei das Gehäuse einen Prozeßgaszulauf und einen Prozeßgasablauf aufweist, die jeweils einem entsprechenden Prozeßgasablauf und einen entsprechenden Prozeßgaszulauf des Ofeninnengehäuses über lösbare Schnellverbindungen zugeordnet sind, und daß jeweils in dem Prozeßgasablauf und dem Prozeßgaszulauf des Ofeninnengehäuses eine Absperreinheit vorgesehen ist.
Abstract:
A flux formulation without a surfactant for use in the assembly of electronic circuit boards as a no-clean formulation. The formulation comprises a flux solution having a fluxing agent consisting essentially of one or more weak organic acids and a solvent consisting essentially of water. The flux solution serves to transport the fluxing agent before deposition thereof upon a soldering site for reliability improvement engendered by a lack of hygroscopic residue and for avoidance of environmental degradation engendered by a lack of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs). The method comprises the step of heating the flux solution and dispersing it as a fine spray.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a reflow apparatus and method which can make the running direction of the internal gas flow in a heating section within a reflow furnace constant. A circulating gas path is formed in a heating unit (U) which collects and moves the gas flow (B) from a sirocco fan (11) up to the rear side of the heating unit (U) and at the same time, drops the raised gas flow towards a circuit board (2) on a transfer path from the front side of the heating unit (U). Moreover, a plurality of straightening plates (16) are arranged above the transfer path of the heating unit (U) so as to guide down the hot gas flow (B) running forward to the circuit board (2) on the transfer path. A blow-down nozzle (17) is further constituted of a plurality of plate materials (19) aligned in rows in the transferring direction of circuit boards and having an inverse U-shaped cross section. The blow-down nozzle (17) is arranged below the straightening plates (16) to feed the hot gas flow (B) to the whole surface of the circuit board (1) in the vertical direction uniformly.
Abstract:
An apparatus (10) and method is provided for conductively bonding at least two conductors (48) together. An inductive coil (34,36) generates a magnetic field when electrical current is run therethrough. A magnetic concentrator (42) is disposed on or near the inductive coil (34,36) and adjacent which the two conductors (48) can be positioned for concentrating the magnetic field on the conductors. The concentrator is independent of the conductors. Pressure is applied to the conductors. The concentrator concentrates the magnetic field generated by the inductive coil on the conductors, thereby heating the conductors under pressure and electrically bonding the conductors together.
Abstract:
A teaching apparatus for an automatic soldering apparatus is provided, comprising first memory means (26) in which soldering condition information is stored in advance for each classification of parts; second memory means (24) in which identification codes of parts, which are to be mounted on a board, are stored in advance for each board; means (20, 21, 22, 23) for correlating the identification codes of the parts; input means (22) for entering an identification code of a board; and creating means (20, 21) for reading all parts, which are to be mounted on the board.
Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for dispensing droplets of liquid or viscous material are disclosed. A valve is opened to dispense a stream of the heated liquid or viscous material through an elongated orifice of a nozzle. The stream of material being dispensed from the elongated orifice is broken into droplets by rapidly closing the valve. Furthermore, a method for varying the height of a droplet of liquid or viscous material is disclosed by which two or more droplets combine to form a droplet of a desired height. A method for applying a plurality of droplets of material onto a substrate so that the droplets flow together to form a uniform film of desired thickness and shape is also disclosed. A second embodiment of the invention relates to dispensing apparatus with a heater assembly removably attached to the dispenser housing. Another modification of the invention relates to a modified seat assembly wherein the valve has three positions with respect to the valve seat and a modified nozzle assembly wherein the nozzle is constructed of a thin walled tube.
Abstract:
A shielding can for a printed circuit board comprise a frame with side walls and a lid with means to increase flexibility of the lid. The flexibility means are slits on the sides of the lid. These slits enable a flexible contraction, when soldering the shielding can onto the printed circuit board. The invention also includes a method for mounting the shielding can onto printed circuit boards. The shielding can is placed onto the printed circuit board and heated slowly to melt the solder paste to solder the shielding can to the printed circuit board. The heating phase is followed by a fast cooling phase, and the flexible means (the slits on the shielding can) reduces the internal stress, which occurs when the shielding can is exposed to different temperatures at the same time, without any permanent deformations.
Abstract:
To provide parts soldering apparatus (1) and method which improve the productivity during parts soldering and increase the mounting accuracy of parts on a circuit board, the parts soldering apparatus (1) has: a stage (2) for positioning a circuit board (10) thereon, which has a solder tip (11) mounted thereon; a loading arm (6) made of a light-transmitting material, for loading a part onto the solder tip (11); a fluctuating mechanism (4) for pressing the loading arm (6) toward the circuit board (10); and an optical source (3) for irradiating light (S) onto the part through the loading arm (6) and for melting the solder tip (11) by the conductive heat of the light irradiated onto the part.
Abstract:
High melting temperature Pb/Sn 95/5 solder balls (18) are connected to copper pads on the bottom of a ceramic chip carrier substrate (10) by low melting temperature eutectic Pb/Sn solder. The connection is made by quick reflow to prevent dissolving Pb into the eutectic solder and raising its melting temperature. Then the module is placed on a fiberglass-epoxy circuit board with the solder balls on eutectic Pb/Sn solder bumps on copper pads of the board. The structure is reflowed to simultaneously melt the solder on both sides of the balls to allow each ball to center between the carrier pad and circuit board pad to form a more symmetric joint. This process results in structure that are more reliable under high temperature cycling. Also, to further improve reliability, the balls are made as large as the I/O spacing allows without bridging beam on balls; the two pads are about the same size with more solder on the smaller pad; the pads are at least 75% of the ball diameter; and the eutectic joints are made as large as possible without bridging between pads. For reliability at even higher temperature cycles or larger substrate sizes columns are used instead of balls.