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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 03, 1996
Gordon O Zablotny, Escondido, CA (US);
James W Horner, Oceanside, CA (US);
Pacific Trinetics Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for automatically making a laminated electrical or electronic device has a series of processing stations including an inspection station for inspecting the quality of printing at a series of indexed segments on a ceramic coated, continuous tape, a stack and tack station at which sequential segments of the tape are cut and stacked on top of each other to form a stack having a selected number of layers, a lamination station in which the stacked layers are laminated together, and a cutting station at which the stack is cut into a plurality of individual chips, a tape feed mechanism for indexing the tape segments sequentially through the inspection station and stack and tack station, and a drive mechanism for moving a stack from the stack and tack station through the lamination station and cutting station.