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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2001
Carson T. Richert, Corona, CA (US);
Luis Alejandro Rey Garcia, Long Beach, CA (US);
Dienhung D. Phan, Westminster, CA (US);
Selina De Rose-Juarez, Corona, CA (US);
Andrei Szilagyi, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A furnace for reflowing solder on a wafer having a heating chamber with an entrance, an exit, and top, bottom, side, and end walls formed of sheets of porous insulation. The furnace has a first belt extending from a loading position into and through. the heating chamber. The furnace has a second belt coupled to the first belt, the second belt extending through the exit of the heating chamber to an unloading position. The heating chamber also has infrared lamps positioned below the first belt, the infrared lamps heat the first belt, such that the first belt heats the wafer situated on the first belt.