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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2018
Applicant:
Hakko Corporation, Osaka, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshitomo Teraoka, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
HAKKO CORPORATION, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 3/00 (2006.01); B23K 3/03 (2006.01); B23K 3/06 (2006.01); B23K 23/00 (2006.01); B23K 3/08 (2006.01); B23K 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 3/03 (2013.01); B23K 3/02 (2013.01); B23K 3/063 (2013.01); B23K 3/08 (2013.01); B23K 23/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A soldering apparatus and method involves capturing an image of a soldering operation, and storing image data in association with that particular soldering operation. A soldering tool that is used to perform the soldering operation has a position during the soldering operation, and the image data could also be stored in association with data for that particular position. The position data could be for an operation start point and/or an operation endpoint. Associating the image data in this way could help a manufacturer investigate soldering abnormalities that might be reported after a product is shipped to a customer.