H05K 13/0061
Tools for holding the circuit boards during processing
Official title: {Tools for holding the circuit boards during processing; handling transport of printed circuit boards}
H05K13/0061 (Tools for holding the circuit boards during processing) appears on 802 US grants and 545 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Carrying device for substrate carrier1 Sep 2026US 12,727,136 B2Group Up Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Substrate pickup tool, substrate assembly station and substrate installation method4 Aug 2026US 12,701,687 B2Wistron Corporation
- Selective transfer of micro devices14 Jul 2026US 12,684,691 B2VueReal Inc.
- Elastic clamping structure and substrate carrier19 May 2026US 12,635,119 B2Group Up Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Dispensing apparatus5 May 2026US 12,617,003 B2Illinois Tool Works Inc.
- High-volume production line24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285608 A1Asmpt Smt Singapore Pte. Ltd.
- Production method of embedded circuit board10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271193 A1Olympic Circuit Technology Co., Ltd.
- Bridge board removal tool10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271254 A1NVIDIA Corporation
- Method for manufacturing circuit board, apparatus for packaging circuit board, and electronic apparatus27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255497 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Inspection device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243701 A1Saki Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method of automatically separating stacked wafers84US 5,213,451 AWacker-Chemitronic Gesellschaft fur Elektronik-Grundstoffe mbH · 1993
- Inflatable packaging pouch75US 5,263,587 APlastic Development, Inc. · 1993
- Apparatus for holding printed circuit board assemblies in manufacturing processes70US 5,984,293 AMCMS, Inc. · 1999
- Conveyor system with lifting mechanism70US 5,985,029 ASpeedline Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- Method and apparatus for successively positioning sheets of material with precision for punching aligning holes in the sheets enabling the sheets to be used in the manufacture of composite circuit boards62US 4,568,971 A1986