Method of processing miniature electronic components such as capacitors or resistors
AssigneePalomar Systems & Machines, Inc.
InventorDenver Braden
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Abstract
Miniature electronic component parts such as capacitors or resistors are end conductively coated by use of a part handling plate having a multiplicity of passageways therethrough with walls coated by resilient material to grip the parts. A bank of pins in a press (a) are used to move the parts in the passageways, (b) are used to load the parts into the passageways through the use of a loading plate housing part receiving openings filled with parts by the use of vibration equipment, and (c) are used to discharge the parts from the passageways into the recesses of an unloading plate. The parts are moved in the passageways first to expose one end to be coated and then second to expose the other end of the parts to be coated.
Claims10
The process of coating ends of a multiplicity of like miniature electronic parts such as capacitors, resistors or the like, comprising:
- (a) forming a body with a multiplicity of juxtaposed parallel passageways extending from face to face of said body,
- (b) forming said passageways with resilient walls substantially from end to end of said passageways,
- (c) sizing said passageways so that at least one cross-sectional dimension in each passageway is shorter than the corresponding cross-sectional dimension of the parts,
- (d) first disposing said parts in a bank juxtaposed to one another and each aligned with one said passgeways and loading the parts by pushing said parts together in a bank into said passageways until their first ends are exposed at a first face of said body,
- (e) coating the exposed first ends of said parts and curing the coating thereon,
- (f) second pushing all of said parts together in a bank in said passageways until their second ends are exposed at a second face of said body,
- (g) coating the exposed second ends of said parts and curing the coating thereon,
- (h) continuously resiliently gripping the sides of said parts in all positions in said passageways whether protruding from either end of said passageways or whether inbetween,
- (i) pushing said parts together in a bank out of said passageways to unload the parts, and
- (j) the lengths of said passageways being greater than the lengths of said parts to be coated and the second pushing step occurring only after the first coating step.
The process of coating ends of a multiplicity of like miniature electronic parts such as capacitors, resistors or the like, comprising:
- (a) forming a multiplicity of juxtaposed parallel passageways,
- (b) first disposing said parts in a bank juxtaposed to one another and each aligned with one of said passageways and loading the parts by pushing said parts together in a bank into said passageways until their first ends are exposed at a first end of said passageways while continuously resiliently gripping the sides of said parts,
- (c) coating the exposed first ends of said parts,
- (d) second pushing said parts together in a bank in said passageways until their second ends are exposed at a second end of said passageways while continuously resiliently gripping the sides of said parts,
- (e) coating the exposed second ends of said parts, and
- (f) the lengths of said passageways being greater than the lengths of said parts to be coated and the second pushing step occurring only after the first coating step.
The process of coating ends of a multiplicity of like miniature electronic parts such as capacitors, resistors or the like, comprising:
- (a) forming a multiplicity of juxtaposed parallel passageways,
- (b) first loading the parts into said passageways by pushing said parts into said passageways until their first ends are exposed at a first end of said passageways while continuously gripping the sides of said parts,
- (c) coating the exposed first ends of said parts,
- (d) second pushing said parts in said passageways until their second ends are exposed at a second end of said passageways while continuously gripping the sides of said parts,
- (e) coating the exposed second ends of said parts, and
- (f) the lengths of said passageways being greater than the lengths of said parts to be coated and the second pushing step occurring only after the first coating step.
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