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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7441687 | Desoldering sheath The present invention provides a desoldering sheath and a method for making the same. The desoldering sheath is comprised of multiple metal ropes that are each made from two or more fine-gauge wire threads. The metal ropes are woven together to form a metal fabric t... | 10/28/2008 |
| 6916859 | Anti-microbial tool grip This invention provides a grip for a tool that is treated with an anti-microbial material to minimize germs from passing from one person to another. The anti-microbial material includes: about 90% by weight of feldspar particles; about 5% by weight of alumina whiske... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6831252 | Electric soldering iron An electric soldering iron useful for heavy duty applications, such as sheet metal lamination, comprises a soldering tip held between two carbon electrodes which are electrically connected through busses to a source of low voltage, variable amperage current. The car... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6814273 | Flatwire repair tool systems and methods A system and method for reworking, repairing and upgrading flatwire is disclosed. A repair tool for reworking and/or repairing the flatwire is disclosed for creating subsequent electrical and mechanical joints of equal or greater quality as compared to the original ... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6805275 | Device for fastening barrel of gas operated soldering gun A device for fastening a barrel of a gas operated soldering gun to a spout of a combustion chamber thereof is disclosed. The device comprises a cavity in a rear end of the barrel, a resilient clip disposed in the cavity, and a plurality of latched pieces on the clip... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6793114 | Soldering heater cartridge with replaceable tips and soldering iron for use therewith A soldering heater cartridge with replaceable tips and a soldering iron for use therewith is constructed of a tip heater cartridge with an elongated cartridge body that has a tubular body member, electrical connectors at a first end of the tubular body member for pl... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6786386 | Soldering iron with heat pipe A soldering iron comprises a tip end; a heater portion for electrically heating the tip end of the soldering iron; a holding portion provided at the rear end of the heater portion: a heat pipe structure provided in the holding portion; a first heat pipe holder for h... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6710304 | Cartridge type soldering iron with a releasable and replaceable handle The present invention allows a user to select a handle that is ergonomically friendly to a user's hand and replace it with the replaceable handle that is designed to fit over a soldering iron rod. There are a number of advantages to the present invention. One of the... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6681980 | Structure of soldering iron tip A tip of a soldering iron is provided which separates any solder bridge, sucks up excess solder, and performs normal soldering operation. The tip has a cutter blade-like portion with its edge inclined. Grooves are formed on both side surfaces of the cutte... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6580050 | Soldering station with built-in self-calibration function A soldering station with a control unit and a soldering iron having a replaceable soldering tip, the soldering iron being connected to the control unit by a power cord for receiving electrical power from said control unit is provided with an automatic cal... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6536650 | Self-grounding soldering iron tip arrangement and a soldering iron for use therewith A self-grounding soldering tip having a spring which serves for connecting the soldering tip to a heater bobbin for establishing a secure grounding of the soldering tip. A bobbin tube extends within the heater bobbin for removably retaining the soldering ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6513697 | Tip heater cartridge and soldering iron for use therewith A tip heater cartridge and a soldering iron with handpiece for use therewith in which, according to a preferred embodiment, a precision molded plastic sleeve is provided on the tip heater cartridge body. The sleeve is provided with an axially extending, r... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6215195 | Wire bonding with capillary realignment A wire bonding method includes aligning the face of a capillary along a first direction to make a first wire bond at a first bond point. The capillary face is realigned to a second direction to make a second wire bond at a second bond point. The realignme... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6147325 | Fixing device In a fixing device for fixing a soldering tip to a soldering device, the soldering tip comprises a front working end and a rear fixing end opposite the front working end, and the soldering device comprises a joining end for fixing the fixing end. A rotati... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6109502 | Ultrasonic vibration bonding resonator In order to realize effective and economical bonding operation even on workpiece whose inside is quite deep, a bonding tool, which has a length equivalent to a whole number of multiples of half the wavelength of the resonance frequency, is secured to an u... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6065666 | Device for soldering a series of connectors and a method of use A soldering member includes an elongated heating element for soldering a series of connectors. The elongated heating element of the soldering member is flexibly supported via a rigid base for adjusting the orientation of the heating element to align with ... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6065663 | Alignment apparatus for wire bonding capillary An alignment apparatus is provided for ensuring proper positioning of a wire bonding capillary during installation of the wire bonding capillary onto the horn of a wire bonding machine. The apparatus ensures that the capillary is in a correct position rel... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6056184 | Apparatus for shaping liquid portions of solder in soft soldering semiconductor chips The apparatus, in preparation of soft soldering semiconductor chips to a substrate (6), is for the shaping of spherically domed liquid portions of solder (8) into flat solder applications (8"), as evenly distributed as possible and correctly positioned on... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6039237 | Heating tip and method of manufacturing the same A heating tip in which an insertion cavity is formed in a tip substrate made of copper or copper alloy for insertion and containment of a heat generating portion, wherein the inner circumferential wall surface of the insertion cavity is formed by forging ... | 03/21/2000 |
| 6019270 | Soldering iron tip A soldering iron tip includes a removable Invar shield covering a copper core plated with other metals. In one embodiment, the core is plated with iron and, outside a working section of the tip, with nickel and chrome. In another embodiment, the core is p... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5996877 | Stepwise autorotation of wire bonding capillary A rotation device (100) provides precise, stepwise rotation of a wire bonding capillary (10) about the longitudinal axis of the capillary. This enables the capillary (10) to be rotated to different angular alignments to perform wire bonding in different d... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5954260 | Fine pitch bonding technique A capillary for bonding a wire between two bonding locations which comprises a capillary (1) having a body having an exterior surface, a bore (23) therethrough and a wall disposed between and defined by the bore and the exterior surface, the bore terminat... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5906308 | Capillary for use in a wire bonding apparatus A capillary for a wire bonding apparatus having a wire threading hole and a chamfer, in which the wire threading hole is formed in two stages as first and second wire threading holes, the diameter of the first wire threading hole which is located above th... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5904286 | Capillary holding structure for an ultrasonic horn An ultrasonic horn used in, for instance, wire bonding having a structure for holding a capillary therein, the capillary holding structure including an external screw section which protrudes from the end surface of the horn and a spacer mount which is lar... | 05/18/1999 |
| 5823419 | Bonding tool A bonding tool used in a bonding apparatus for bonding, for example, pellet and leads of a lead frame including a tool attachment part to which a tool member is mounted. The tool member has four inclined surfaces, and the tool attachment part includes two... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5699951 | Wire bonder and a bonding tool and bonding arm The present invention discloses a wire bonder that does not require bonding tool replacement to be performed by an experienced worker, is not bothersome and can be completed in an extremely short time, while also enabling time management of the degree of ... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5683603 | Electric soldering iron tip improvements A soldering tip is disclosed which fits loosely over a ceramic heater rod. The rear skirt of the tip is slotted into segments the rear edges of which are tapered rearwardly inwardly to be engaged by a forwardly opening conical surface on the front of a me... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5639011 | Attaching components and reworking circuit boards In one aspect, a device for attaching a component to a circuit board is provided, comprising a circuit board held in a holder and a contact heater that heats the component on the circuit board by contact and by conducting heat through the component. In a ... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5603857 | Handheld electric heater for removing or replacing surface-mounted integrated circuits from a circuit board An apparatus for removing and/or replacing a surface-mounted integrated circuit that includes electrical heating elements disposed in a planar rectangular array and a handle positioning the element array in heat-conductive contact with the legs on the sid... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5569400 | Soldering gun with U-shaped insertable terminal structure and tip having differing impedance layers A solder gun or soldering iron contains a pair of electrical terminals that hold a solder tip containing a pair of straight parallel leads. Each lead has a substantially U-shaped cross-section that creates a circular cavity filled which is filled with an ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5368216 | Capillary-retaining structure for an ultrasonic horn A capillary-retaining structure for an ultrasonic horn used in a wire bonding apparatus including a stress relief hole formed inside of a capillary attachment hole that is opened at an end portion of the ultrasonic horn. Thus, the capillary retention by t... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5297717 | Self-aligning tip elements for tweezer-type soldering handpiece Self-aligning tip elements are achieved in accordance with preferred embodiments of the invention by providing a edge surface of each tip element with key and notch formations which will interfit with each other in a prescribed orientation when the tip el... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5261590 | Structure of soldering system with solder wire automatic feeding mechanism Disclosed is a structure of soldering system with solder wire automatic feeding mechanism, which comprises a first cardan arm for holding a soldering iron and a second cardan arm for holding a solder wire feeding unit. The cardan arms are each comprised o... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5248076 | Soldering tool A soldering tool comprises a handle (10) and a rod-shaped or tubular heating element fastened to the front end of the handle. A soldering tip (4) can be placed on the free end of the heating element. The soldering tip (4) has a borehole for receiving the ... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5246157 | Tool for use with tweezer handpiece for installation and removal of electronic components with respect to a substrate A tweezer-type heating device for installation and removal device of electronic components with respect to a substrate, such as for SMC installation and through hole installation or removal. More specifically, a handheld tweezer-type heating device is pro... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5215241 | Composite soldering iron tip using heat of fusion Latent heat of fusion is used to store and extract a relatively large quantity of temperature controlled heat from the small volume of a soldering iron tip. This is accomplished by fabricating the tip from a composite material comprised of a porous metal ... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5190205 | Bonding head assembly A bonding head assembly including a retaining block having a vacuum suction hole or electromagnet on its concave surface formed on the undersurface, a central shaft loosely passing through the central hole of the retaining block and having a bonding tool ... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5180093 | Apparatus for ultrasonic bonding An ultrasonic transducer, bonding tool and method of bonding gold or gold plated leads to gold or gold plated bonding pads located on unheated substrates is disclosed. More particularly, the transducer of the present invention incorporates a modified tran... | 01/19/1993 |
| 5152448 | Integrated circuit disassembly apparatus To effect disassembly of components relative to an integrated circuit board, the circuit board and its typical construction, including the soldering of the various components projected through the circuit board, is effected by an anvil, including a plural... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5150827 | Self-leveling reflow solder head with double pivot A reflow solder head has its heater bar (30) mounted so as to cause the heater bar to contact a tilted reflow surface (50) and align itself with the tilted surface without tip skid. The heater bar is mounted to its movable drive ram (40) by two independen... | 09/29/1992 |
