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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8152044 | Solar battery module production method and solar battery module production apparatus A method of producing a solar battery module. The method uses a producing apparatus having a positioning belt and a heating belt adjacent to each other such that an object can be delivered between the belts, and also having a pressing belt opposite the positioning b... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8079506 | Stud welding apparatus A stud welding apparatus comprises a feeder to receive a plurality of studs and feed the stud one by one with the stud being fed in advance of a weld portion thereof from an outlet of the feeder; and a welding gun to receive the stud as fed from the feeder through a... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7735709 | Apparatus and method for joining pipe ends together A method and apparatus for joining pipe sections (102, 104) together to form an underwater pipeline. The pipe sections (102, 104) are in an abutting position and have a generally vertical orientation. The apparatus comprises at least two welding equipm... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7398910 | System for use in tapping a pipe A mechanical weldable fitting for use in tapping a pipe includes a first and second metal collar, each formed of attachable upper and lower semi-toroidal portions that when assembled on the pipe providing spaced-apart external cylindrical surfaces. Each collar havin... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7331439 | Manufacturing plant for parts, particularly vehicle body parts A manufacturing plant (1) is provided for vehicle body parts (2, 3). The manufacturing plant includes a number of processing stations (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), which are situated one behind the other along a transfer line (22), and of a num... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322510 | Machining system A machining system and unit, especially a welding cell, is provided for use for the machining of workpieces (2), especially body parts of vehicles. The machining system has one or more machining stations (15, 16) with robots (18, 19, 20) and at ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7312541 | Actuator and bonding apparatus In an actuator of a bonding apparatus, a rotating body 16 that has a bonding head is rotatably supported on a supporting carrier having the same shape as magnetic path members 32L and 32R, and coil portions 40 and 42 are disposed o... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7303111 | Lightweight bondhead assembly A bondhead assembly having a bond body for mounting a bonding tool, a support structure that is configured to be drivable for moving the bondhead assembly to different locations and flexural elements arranged substantially along at least one plane which couple the b... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303109 | Stud bumping apparatus The invention provides an apparatus and a method for forming conductive bumps on a plurality of semiconductor devices with an oxidizable material. The apparatus comprises a bump forming device, a chamber system adapted to house the semiconductor devices and a gas su... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293687 | Apparatus for manufacturing tubes An apparatus (1) for manufacturing tubes made from thin-walled material, especially made from sheet metal, with a welding machine for longitudinal-seam welding, as well as with a clamping device (2), which has clamping jaws, which are arranged on oppos... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7255259 | Operator-serviceable wire feed sensor guide for use in semiconductor package fabrication A wire feed sensor guide, used in fabrication of semiconductor packages, guides a wire W from a wire source to a wire bonding location. The wire feed sensor guide has a unitary slider 1 that can be manually slid into and out of a fixed portion (2 or | 08/14/2007 |
| 7229000 | Adjustable frame fixture An adjustable frame fixture aims to hold a printed-circuit board (PCB) to pass over a tin oven to process wave soldering. The fixture includes at least two side frames and at least two fasteners. The two side frames are coupled to form a holding dock. The positions ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7172105 | Apparatus for positioning pipe and tubing A counterweight assembly is especially adapted for mounting to a spinner tool allowing a workpiece to be balanced when rotated during welding or other operations. The counterweight assembly has an adjustable counterweight to provide a necessary amount of counterbala... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7129446 | Reflow device A device is provided to heat the whole heated surface of a carried member carried intermittently with a temperature change over time maintained constant. The device controls the driving of a belt-conveyer so that a heater moves in a carrying direction at a carry tim... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7051918 | Dual-biasing weld-attaching of end components to an elongate element A method utilizing a stabilizing jig structure for positioning and supporting the assembly of an elongate structural beam and a beam-end mounting component during weld attachment of that mounting component to an end of the beam. This method includes the steps of (a)... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7015066 | Method for stress reduction in flip chip bump during flip chip mounting and underfill process steps of making a microelectronic assembly A method of making a microelectronic assembly buying restraining a substrate in a fixture at room temperature, placing a flip chip on the substrate so that conductive bumps on the flip chip are aligned with contact pads on the substrate, heating the flip chip, the s... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6976616 | Circuit board transferring apparatus and method and solder ball mounting method By photographing pad forming faces of CSPs 400 to recognize a pad arrangement through image processing so as to transfer and position the CSPs 400 in accordance with the recognition result of the pad arrangement, even if pads 401 are formed in a... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6921011 | Work piece holder having top mounted robot and method of use The invention relates to a work piece holder with top mounted robot which optimizes floor space for a work piece positioner and a robot. In general, the work piece positioner assembly and the top mounted robot is supported on a base frame. Attached to the base frame... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6915943 | Tetherless internal line-up unit for pipeline welding A line-up clamp unit is powered by a diesel engine which drives a hydraulic pump for operating hydraulic equipment in the unit. The unit includes a line-up clamp which has front shoes, rear shoes and expanding copper back-up tiles. Drive wheels are deployed by a hyd... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6905059 | Solder ball attachment system A solder ball attachment system for manufacturing an integrated circuit or the like is disclosed. The solder ball attachment system includes a flux station to apply flux onto a substrate and a solder ball placement station to place solder balls onto the flux on the ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6877649 | Clamp post holder A clamp post holder has a mounting portion for mounting on a wire bonding machine, and a clamp post holding portion, which holds a clamp post. The mounting portion and post holding portion are separated by a slot except for a connecting portion. A screw passes throu... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6860417 | Low shock work transport system for pressure vessels A low shock work transport system for moving workpieces into a pressure vessel without significant vibrations or mechanical shocks. The pressure vessel has two opposing ends with a sealable port in each of the opposing ends. A vessel rail is contained entirely withi... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6768083 | Reflow soldering apparatus and method for selective infrared heating A reflow soldering apparatus and method are provided for reflow soldering electrical and electronic components to circuit boards. The reflow soldering apparatus and method use selective infrared (IR) heating alone or in combination with convection heating to achieve... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6739498 | Solder ball attachment system A solder ball attachment system for manufacturing an integrated circuit or the like is disclosed. The solder ball attachment system includes a flux station adapted to apply flux onto a substrate and a solder ball placement station adapted to place solder balls onto ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6702173 | Reflow apparatus in continuous printing and mounting apparatus for film-like printing body When a movement of a film-like printing body is stopped for a longer time than the normal time because of generation of trouble or the like, heat of hot plates for full heating is prevented from being transmitted to the film-like printing body. All of the... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6681981 | Method and apparatus for prefabricating modular structural members Novel prefabricated modular structural members for use in low cost construction of relatively small residential, institutional and commercial buildings with high degrees of resistance to damage by fire, hurricanes, earthquakes, moisture, etc., are disclos... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6679416 | Multi-functional welding platform A multi-functional welding platform is disclosed. The multi-functional welding platform has a box body at a base thereof. The rear side thereof is installed with a power input end, a power regulator, a high voltage discharging plate, a power output end, e... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6666371 | Sealing system for electronic device and sealing method therefor The present invention provides a sealing system for implementing an optimum temperature profile for solder melting and improving productivity, and a sealing method therefor. The present invention comprises a sealing machine for superimposing a pre-soldere... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6648215 | Method and apparatus for mounting semiconductor chips With the mounting of a semiconductor chip onto a substrate having a portion of adhesive the bondhead is lowered to a predetermined height H above a support holding the substrate. At the same time, the pick-up tool is fixed in an upper limit position on th... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6531683 | Boom control system A boom control system having rotational and elevation control of the boom. The boom is utilized in a welding apparatus utilizing a conduit to deliver the welding material to the work piece. The elevation of the boom may be adjusted by discrete steps, with... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6467675 | Vehicle body assembly apparatus and assembly method A front floor panel (31) and a first small component such as a second cross member (35) to be assembled to a surface thereof, with the first small component at the bottom side are positioned and set into a locator jig (29) at a part setting station (S), a... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6412680 | Dual-in-line BGA ball mounter A BGA ball mount line with a dual in-line mounter flowing into one reflow oven and one in-line cleaner. The dual in-line mounter comprises a first ball mount cell and a second ball mount cell. The second ball mount cell is parallel to and a mirror image o... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6375156 | Welding gun cylinder with control valve A weld gun cylinder and piston assembly includes a common center end wall interposed between two cylinders. The common center end wall functions as a manifold with bores extending therethrough. The manifold houses two spool valves. The spool valves contro... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6364196 | Method and apparatus for aligning and attaching balls to a substrate A method for aligning and bonding balls to substrates, such as semiconductor wafers, dice and packages, is provided. The method employs a ball retaining plate having a pattern of micromachined cavities and vacuum conduits for retaining the balls. In addit... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6336582 | Method of manufacturing multiple kinds of products in arbitrarily selected order in one manufacturing line In a method of manufacturing multiple kinds of products in an arbitrarily selected order in one manufacturing apparatus, the rate of operation of the welding robots to be disposed in each of assembly lines for each of parts is improved, the cost for equip... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6283361 | General-purpose jig A general-purpose jig is provided which includes a base, a locational holding device mounted on the base and having a tripod robot that includes three expansion actuators, and a clamp attached to the locational holding device. The position of the clamp ca... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6276598 | Method and apparatus for ball placement A method and apparatus are described for placing a plurality of balls in a predetermined array. The method and apparatus are particularly suitable for transferring solder balls to a ball grid array package. In the method the balls are transferred from a s... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6273318 | Welding gun cylinder with control valve A weld gun cylinder and piston assembly includes a common center end wall interposed between two cylinders. The common center end wall functions as a manifold with bores extending therethrough. The manifold houses two spool valves. The spool valves contro... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6250533 | Clamping device for use in motor vehicle production lines and production line having such a clamping device A clamping device for a motor vehicle production line has, on both sides of a transport apparatus for rough car bodies, ways on a common base frame leading underneath the transport apparatus for one side carriage each which can run separately on one side ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6247632 | Molded selective solder pallet A molded selective solder pallet and a method for fabricating a molded selective solder pallet for use in a wave soldering process to selectively affix solder to an area of a circuit board having an electronic component thereon. The selective solder palle... | 06/19/2001 |
