Abstract:
In manufacturing patterns such as photomasks, contours are cut in a foil by means of a cutting tool, after which the material of the foil situated inside or outside the contours is removed. According to the invention, a cutter is used which is preferably rotationally symmetrical, the cutting part of which extends at right angles to the plane of the foil and is heated during cutting of the foil to facilitate the cutting operation. Any contours may be cut by means of this tool which is insensitive to the direction of cutting.
Abstract:
1,023,678. Welding by pressure. PHILIPS ELECTRONIC & ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES Ltd. Sept. 25, 1964 [Sept. 30, 1963], No. 39166/64. Heading B3R. In welding a wire or the like to a body the wire is held rigidly in contact with a surface of the body and the body is ultrasonically vibrated parallel to the surface by means of vibrations transmitted via frictional coupling. To weld a wire 5, Fig. 1, to a plate 6 the wire is held or clamped in an anvil 4 which may have a bore through which the wire may be fed and the plate 6 is arranged between the end of the wire and the tip 3 of an amplitude transformer 2 connected to a transducer 1. The anvil is spring-urged against the plate and tip 3 and the latter is vibrated parallel to the plate vibrating the plate until a weld is formed when the tip slides on the plate. Copper or aluminium wires may be so welded to copper, brass or aluminium plates. In a modification a wire 5 is welded to the bottom 6 1 , Fig. 3 (not shown) of a box-shaped envelope 10 of an electrolytic capacitor using an elongated tip 3 coupled to a transducer and amplitude transformer. An apparatus similar to that shown in Fig. 3 may be used to weld a plate to a wire held by a three-part jaw in the anvil. A wire may be welded to a lug or protruberance on a body and the wire may be at an angle to the surface.