Samsung’s RF30 series reflow soldering systems has been added to the SP450V screen printer, SM and CP Series component placement systems, and associated board handling systems, to provide a full turnkey line.
  
Features include a Windows-based operator interface, a multifunctional heating system. Double-covered insulated heating zone construction is said to feature multi-ejection nozzles and fans circulating air in five directions. Dual-active cooling zones with variable speed fans reportedly bring the board temperature below the liquid state at a controlled rate. Available in 8, 10 and 12 heated zones, plus two cooling-zone configurations.

Dynatech Technology, www.dynatechsmt.com

PCB Raptor features a pressure-foot brush assembly for depanelizing PCBs. Mills, drills, routes and engraves at feeds up to a reported 600" per minute. Designed the rapid in-house PCB routing. The 60,000-rpm spindle is said to mill precision geometries required by high frequency and microwave applications. Can machine most electronics materials, including G10, FR-4, EMI-proof aluminum, copper, stainless steel, gold, Delrin, Torlon, Delmat, Kapton, Lexan and many other plastics and metals. The use of low-pitch precision ball screws on the EX model reportedly results in a resolution of ± 0.00008", an absolute accuracy of ± 0.0005", and a relative accuracy of ± 0.0002".
 
Datron, www.datrondynamics.com
 
 

DX dispenser includes a mobile handheld dispenser with a refill station. Reportedly dispenses two component reactive resins at 1:1, 1.5:1, 2:1, 4:1, and 10:1 ratios. Multiple handheld dispensers can be quickly refilled with one DXR refill station. The refill station uses two transfer pumps that feed from 5-gal. bulk containers, each equipped with follower plates. 
 
MIXPAC, www.mixpacequipment.com
  
 
 

I&J7900-LF, an RoHS-compliant, compact three-axis dispensing robot, has a work area of 8 x 8" and a z-axis of 2".
 
 

 

Hysol FP5110 is specially formulated for flip-chip image sensor modules and is said to provide adhesion to both 2- and 3-layer flexible printed circuits by bonding to both polyimide and epoxy adhesive material.
 
Bonds bumps to substrates by means of a Pb-free-compatible thermal compression process. Compatible with thermal compression and ultrasonic bonding processes; low temperature 10-sec. SnapCure at 180°C; storage requirement of -15°C.
 

The MX high-speed component placement system is said to be capable of placement rates up to 80,000 cph. Features cascading modularity, with 216 feeder slots per segment; full-range component capability; double placement areas in each module, and a multilevel transport system reported to eliminate “local head-downtimes.”
 
Mimot, www.mimot.com

  

The AST-700 bottom-side, screw-fastening work cell is designed to offer the ability to selectively fasten components using screws from the bottom side after odd-form placement. Uses a bowl-style system with blow feeder to automatically present and drive screws into the desired locations. Said to offer fully programmable x, y and z motion with in-line conveyor, positive PCB stop location/clamping, and programmable fastening locations. Includes a second chance feature with screw detection and purge function to prevent false error.
 

IS415, a 200°C Tg product, is Pb-free compatible and offers improved signal integrity performance. Now has electrical loss in the 0.009 range using the split post resonant cavity method, and around 0.0135 using the Bereskin Stripline test method at 10 GHz.  Currently available in North America, with manufacturing in Asia to begin in 2007.  Is RoHS compliant and a UL94V-0-rated substrate.
 
Isola Group, www.isola-group.com
  
 

The AOM-700 pick-and-place work cell is said to be capable of picking odd-form components, connectors or a variety of other parts from a tube- or bowl-style feeder. Places each component onto a PCB, offers fully programmable x, y and z motion with inline conveyor, positive PCB location/clamping, and programmable picking head selection. Rotating head permits selection of the gripper position to be used for assembly.
 
Promation, www.pro-mation-inc.com 
 
 
 

PRO 6 series robotic soldering system reportedly provides multiple technologies built into a single work cell. The PRO 6Td is a dual-head soldering robot that may be configured with both iron tip and diode laser soldering heads. May be independently controlled for progressive assembly or used in sequence for high output.
 
The soldering head and automatic solder feeder are said to be dynamically independent and adjustable from one another. May be programmed to look for known fiducial points, analyze them and automatically center for a reported 100% pinpoint accuracy.
 
Promation, www.Pro-mation-inc.com

 

IS620 laminate now comes with enhanced electrical attributes. Reportedly offers 25% lower dielectric loss and improved thermal performance. Dielectric loss at 10 GHz are said to be in the 0.007 range using the stripline test method and in the 0.005 range with the split post method.
Isola, www.isola-group.com
 
 
 

The YTX-3000 x-ray inspection system now comes with 3-D tomography. Is said to be ideally suited for analysis of interconnections for stacked die, MEMS, package-in-package and package-on-package.
 
YESTech, www.yestechinc.com