FRANKLIN, MA –Speedline Technologies’ recent award of seven new U.S. patents lifts the company’s total above 400, 150 of which are active. The company has another 90 patents pending.
 
The recently awarded patents involve:
* "Apparatus for Calibrating a Dispensing System"
* “Filtration of Flux Contaminants"
* "Needle Cleaning System"
* "Reflow Soldering Apparatus and Method for Selective Infrared Heating"
* "Selective Gas Knife for Wave Soldering"
* "System and Method for Controlling a Conveyor System Configuration to
Accommodate Different Size Substrates"
* "System and Method for Detecting Defects in Printed Solder Paste"
 
“At Speedline Technologies, ‘process knowledge leader’ is more than a positioning statement – it is our vision and passion,” said Dr. Gerald Pham-Van-Diep, director of advanced development. “But even more importantly, our commitment extends past the R&D process – through implementation.”
 
Patented Speedline innovations include:  Look up and down vision probe technology; Parallel processing within the printer; Inspection techniques within printers and dispensers; Pressurized printing technologies; Accurate dispensing technologies; Reflow and flux management techniques; and Debridging techniques in wave soldering machines.
 
Speedline Technologies, speedlinetech.com

CAMBRIDGE, MA, and CHICAGO- Electronics distributor Newark InOne has launched a Punchout/Roundtrip site for its eProcurement customers, offering access to more than 2.1 million electronic products and improved capabilities such as parametric search, advanced search, navigation by attributes and a BOM upload.  

The new search capabilities, powered by Endeca (endeca.com), produce results that can be compared and sorted by desirable dimensions, attributes or criteria. Presented in a familiar parametric search interface, the search engine allows design engineers and buyers to find products and avoid the pitfalls of traditional parametric solutions. 

The solution is part of Endeca’s recently launched Manufacturing & Distribution Search Solutions, a combination of information retrieval applications and services expertise tailored for manufacturing and supplier environments.

Simi Valley, CA – View Engineering has acquired the assets of privately held Micro-Metric, hoping to strengthen its core capabilities in electronic assembly and data storage, and extending the company’s offerings into nanometerology.

No changes in management or staffing of either company are planned. Micro-Metric will continue to operate from its headquarters in San Jose.  

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