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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 1999
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steven P Sadler, Billerica, MA (US);
Patrizio Vinciarelli, Boston, MA (US);
Assignee:
VTL Corporation, San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ; B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
228 33 ; 228 43 ; 228 495 ;
Abstract
The invention features soldering parts (e.g., printed circuit boards) by indexing the parts sequentially and continuously through a series of processing stations. Each of the series of processing stations includes at least one processing position, and the indexer indexes the parts from processing position to processing position. At different processing stations, the parts indexed into those processing stations are simultaneously processed.