Abstract:
An improved electrode construction for apparatus for testing the integrity of thru-hole plating in printed circuit boards and the like by measuring the effective thickness thereof. A first conically shaped electrode assembly is adapted to be displaced along a predetermined path into engagement with one of the defining marginal perimetric edges of a plated thru-hole in a circuit board. A second and complementally shaped electrode assembly is adapted to be displaced into engagement with the other defining marginal perimetric edge of the thru-hole. Each of such electrode assemblies include a pair of discrete selectively contoured electrode elements adapted to make line contact with the marginal defining edges of the thru-hole, whereby a predetermined magnitude of constant current can be passed through the plating intermediate one pair of electrode elements, and the voltage drop developed thereby across the thru-hole plating measured by the other pair of electrode elements.
Abstract:
A portable beta backscatter measuring instrument assembly to effect measurements of the thickness of coatings on workpieces, including a jig mounted portable probe member incorporating means adjustable relative thereto to engage a workpiece, or an abutment fixed relative to a workpiece, to hold the probe member in firm engagement with a surface of the workpiece in proper position for measuring the thickness of a coating on the surface.
Abstract:
APPARATUS FOR LOCATING A BETA RAY EMITTING PROBE ASSEMBLY AND AN APERTURE IN A PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD OR OTHER WORKPIECE AT A MEASURING STATION IN PRECISE RELATIONSHIP TO ONE ANOTHER TO EFFECT BETA BACKSCATTER-TYPE MEASUREMENTS OF THE THICKNESSES OF PLATINGS ON A PREDETERMINED AREA ON THE SIDEWALL OF A SELECTED APERTURE, INCLUDING MEANS FOR GUIDING THE PROBE ASSEMBLY FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN A RETRACTED POSITION AND AN ADVANCED OPERATIVE MEASURING POSITION TO ASSURE DIRECTED IMPINGEMENT OF A COLLIMATED BEAM OF BETA RADIATION ON SAID PREDETERMINED AREA OF THE WALL OF ANY APERTURE SELECTED FROM A PLURALITY OF SIMILAR APERTURES IN A BOARD.