Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Syoji Sato

Yasuo Izumi

Kazumi Ishimoto

Yutaka Makino

Ken Takahashi

Takao Naito

Hiroaki Onishi

Ryoji Inutsuka

Toshinori Mimura

Youichi Nakamura

Hiroshi Yamauchi

Osamu Hikita

Kazue Okanoue

Koji Mitsushiro

Shohzo Ueno

Screen printing apparatus and screen printing method

In a printing apparatus and method, printing material is printed on to-be-printed circuit boards in a predetermined pattern and a printing state of the material is inspected. The apparatus includes the following devices. A board supporting device has a rotary body supporting a plurality of board-fixed tables to which the boards are secured, and turns the rotary body together with the board-fixed tables intermittently at predetermined angular intervals so as to stop the board-fixed tables at each of a fixing, recognizing, printing, and inspecting position. A board feed device feeds the boards to the board-fixed tables arranged at the fixing position. A board discharge device discharges the boards from the board-fixed tables arranged at the fixing position. A recognizing device recognizes fixed positions of the boards relative to the board-fixed tables at the recognizing position. A printing device prints the printing material on the boards at the printing position. An inspecting device inspects the printing state of the boards at the inspecting position. The method carries out the board-feeding, position recognizing, printing, printing-state-inspecting, and board-discharging operations by use of the corresponding devices.

Printing apparatus and method for inspecting printed materials

A method is provided for electrically connecting a first electronic component which is not resistant to a reflowing temperature and a second electronic component which is resistant to the reflowing temperature to a substrate. The method includes the steps of applying cream solder to a first predetermined portion of the substrate so that the first electronic component is connected therewith and to a second predetermined portion of the substrate so that the second electronic component is connected therewith, mounting the second electronic component on the substrate, heating the second electronic component mounted on the substrate by reflowing so as to solder the second electronic component onto the substrate, forming a pre-soldered portion made of cream solder on the first predetermined portion of the substrate, applying flux to one of the first electronic component and the pre-soldered portion, mounting the first electronic component on the first predetermined portion of the substrate, melting the cream solder of the pre-soldered portion by heating the substrate locally, and soldering the first electronic component onto the substrate. Another method for electrically connecting an unwashable electronic component and a washable electronic component to a substrate includes similar steps to those of the method above.

Method for connecting electronic component with substrate

A package is used for keeping an electric circuit board with no electronic components provided thereon in an air-tight cavity thereof and for preventing from oxidation during the transportation to the process wherein the electronic components are mounted on the electric circuit board. The cavity is composed of the lower and upper sheet of gas-impermeable materials, which are bonded at the bonded area by the fusion bonding, adhesive agent or viscous agent. The cavity is kept in non-oxidizing atmosphere by filling inert gas or evacuating air therefrom. The lower and upper sheets are composed of single layer or multi-layers, which may be made of flexible material or rigid material. An electric circuit board accommodated in the cavity of the package is taken out by the device comprising a separation roller pair. The device weakens the bonding strength to enable easy pulling of the lower and upper sheets to unpackage the circuit board.

Packages for circuit boards for preventing oxidation thereof

A screen printing machine has a table on which a substrate is to be put, a substrate adjusting device on the table to adjust the position of the substrate on the table, a screen plate capable of being placed on the table, a squeegee movable on the plate, a suction unit connected with the table to apply suction to the substrate through through holes of the substrate, a measuring device arranged in the suction unit to measure the degree of vacuum in the suction unit, and an adjusting device arranged in the suction unit to adjust the degree of vacuum.

Screen printing machine for through hole printing an electric conductor

An atmosphere furnace including a plurality of divided furnace units, work transfer devices connecting the adjacent divided furnace units and those for the divided furnace units at both ends of the furnace. Each transfer device includes a tubular connecting frame and a work transfer member housed therein and the work transfer member has a work housing space in it. The work transfer member is rotatable, receives at a first position the work from outside or from an adjacent divided furnace unit into its work housing space, and send it out of the furnace or pass it to the adjacent divided furnace unit at a second position. When the work transfer member is at a middle position between the first and the second positions, the work housing space thereof faces an inner surface of the connecting frame so as to be sealed against the both end openings of the frame. Furthermore, it is provided with a channel for receiving the atmosphere from any divided furnace unit or outside space when the transfer member is at the middle position so as to have the work in the work housing space gradually heated or cooled through introduction of the atmosphere.

Atmosphere furnace

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Neyagawa, Japan

Syoji Sato