US 11,903,134 B2Granted

Screen printer including 3D printed support block for supporting article during printing

AssigneeJabil Inc.

InventorsDarin Burgess, Randy Crockett, Timothy DeRosett, Charles Santhakumar, Scott Klimczak, Anwar A. Mohammed, Luke Rodgers, Harpuneet Singh, Daniel Torres, Felipe Torres

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Abstract

Support blocks for printed circuit boards (PCB's) and printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA's), wherein the support blocks are produced from a 3D printing process. The support block including a bottom surface having a vacuum connection; a top surface having at least one vacuum hole; at least one recessed surface that is offset from the top surface; and at least one vacuum channel extending from the vacuum connection to the at least one vacuum hole.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A screen printer for screen printing on an article, the screen printer comprising:

a lift plate;
a vacuum block disposed on the lift plate;
at least one support bar removably disposed on the lift plate adjacent to the vacuum block such that a top surface of the at least one support bar and a top surface of the vacuum block are on a common plane;
a 3D printed support block having a bottom surface resting on the vacuum block and the at least one support bar and a top surface configured to support the article during the screen printing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/663,851Filed 18 May 2022 · division
Priority: 9 Sep 2020
Published: US 2022/0078955 A11 Sep 2022
Granted: 13 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

H05K 13/0069
Tools for holding the circuit boards during processing; handling transport of printed circuit boards: holders for printed circuit boards
B25B 11/002
Work holders not covered by any preceding group in the subclass, e.g. magnetic work holders, vacuum work holders: magnetic work holders
B25B 11/005
Work holders not covered by any preceding group in the subclass, e.g. magnetic work holders, vacuum work holders: vacuum work holders
B29C 64/364
Auxiliary operations or equipment: conditioning of environment

Family

Application17/015,841Parent of this division · filed 9 Sep 2020
US 2022/0279689 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Sep 2022
US 11,477,926 B2Parent of this division
US 2022/0078955 A1Published application
US 11,903,134 B2This patent

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