Western Electric Company, Inc.

At&t Technologies, Inc.

Raymond J Newman

Edward J March

Roland Ellis, Jr

Brian E Jacobs

A template (148), having at least one opening (152) therein, is placed in close, spaced, relation to a PCB (30). The opening (152) is circular with a small semicircular notch (154) on the periphery thereof. A chip carrier (10) is positioned in the opening (152) with one corner (22) loosely captured in the notch (154). The PCB (30), template (148) and the loosely captured chip carriers (10) are placed in a condensation soldering facility to reflow the solder. As the solder reflows the chip carrier (10) rotates slightly about the loosely captured corner (22) to self align pads (33) on the PCB (30) to leads (16) on the chip carrier (10) as the bond is being formed.

Technique for bonding a chip carrier to a metallized substrate

A high pressure steam condensation soldering facility (10) is described. The facility (10) incorporates a chamber (12) having a centrally located heat processing zone (45) into which high pressure steam is injected to reflow solder on articles (43) therein. A baffle (41) having a conical top portion (51) with a plurality of apertures (52) therein permits controlled amounts of the steam to pass therethrough while redirecting a portion of the steam along the wall (16) of the chamber (12) to interpose a shield of steam between the wall and uniformly heated processing zone (45).

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Raymond J Newman