Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Gun-Yong Lee

Choul-Su Kim

Masaharu Tsukue

Kwang-Soo Jung

Haeng-Il Kim

A printed circuit board and a pad apparatus having a solder deposit formed on the pad apparatus by using a mask having a slit are provided. The slit has the same shape as the solder deposit. The solder deposit includes first and second end portions individually shaped and sized to completely cover at an end portion of the pad a predetermined area of an end portion of the pad, the area defined by both the entire width of the pad and a predetermined length from the end of the pad. A connection web extends between the two end portions to integrate the two end portions into a single structure and is a longitudinal part having a width smaller than any one of both the width of the pad and the width of each of the two end portions. First and second trapezoidal portions are respectively formed at junctions between opposite ends of said connection web and one of the two end portions. The mask has a slit formed at a position corresponding to the position of the solder deposit. This slit includes first and second end opening parts corresponding to the two end portions of the solder deposit, a web opening part corresponding to the connection web, and first and second trapezoidal opening parts respectively formed at junctions between opposite ends of said web opening part and said two end opening parts and corresponding to the first and second trapezoidal portions of the solder deposit.

Printed circuit board and pad apparatus having a solder deposit

Disclosed is a method of preventing a gold plate connector of a printed circuit board (PCB) from being contaminated during a soldering process. The disclosed method prevents the gold plate connector coupled with the printed circuit board from being contaminated during wave soldering of the printed circuit board after spreading flux over the printed circuit board on which electronic components are mounted, and the method includes the steps of: forming a strip mask in a form of a membrane by solidifying a masking solution after spreading the masking solution capable of being solidified over the gold plate connector of the printed circuit board, performing the spreading of the masking solution before the spreading of the flux; and removing the strip mask from the gold plate connector after performing the wave soldering. As a result, it is not necessary to perform a washing operation of the gold plate connector. The washing operation can be troublesome, time-consuming, and inconvenient. The present invention causes the time required for performing an entire process upon the printed circuit board to be shortened, and productivity and efficiency to be enhanced.

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Kyunggi-do, South Korea

Gun-Yong Lee