Single-strip molding apparatus
AssigneeASM Fico Tooling, b.v.
InventorsJohannes L. G. M. Venrooij, Wouter B. Verwoerd, Wilhelmus H. J. Harmsen
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Abstract
An apparatus for molding electronic components. The single-strip molding apparatus has a mold die formed from two mold halves which are movable relative to each other and can be closed upon one another. A leadframe for the component to be molded is placed into a recess in one of the mold halves. Molding material is heated and forced under pressure into the recess containing the leadframe. After the component is molded the mold is opened and the upper half of the mold is cleaned by a combined cleaning-discharge unit. Upon the return stroke of the cleaning-discharge unit, the molded component is removed and the lower half of the mold is cleaned.
Claims21
A single-strip molding apparatus, comprising:
- a mold formed by an upper mold half and a lower half vertically movable relative to one another and closable onto one another;
- means for placing a leadframe supporting an electronic component into a recess in one of the mold halves;
- means for carrying molding material into a cavity of the mold;
- means for exerting pressure and supplying heat to said cavity to liquify the molding material;
- channels for supplying said liquified molding material to said recess;
- means for heating the mold halves;
- means for cleaning the mold halves;
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- means for removing a molded product from the mold, wherein the means for cleaning and for removing the molded product are unified into a cleaning-discharge unit which removes the product from one side of the mold while said means for placing the leadframe supplies said leadframe from another side of the mold, and further, wherein said cleaning discharge unit and said means for placing the leadframe perform reciprocating movements into the mold.
An apparatus for encapsulating or molding an electronic component comprising:
- a mold having an upper first mold half and a lower second mold half, the mold halves being vertically movable relative to one another and closable onto one another, the lower mold half having a recess;
- reciprocating means for placing an electronic component into the recess of the lower mold half;
- means for providing molding material in a liquified form to the recess;
- means for curing the molding material;
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- a reciprocating cleaning-discharge unit having a forward movement into the mold and a backward movement out of the mold, the cleaning-discharge unit including means for cleaning the upper mold half and the lower mold half and means for removing the component from the mold after the molding material has been cured, wherein during the backward movement the upper mold half is cleaned and during the forward movement the molded product is removed from the mold and the lower mold half is cleaned, and further wherein the means for removing the molded component removes the component from one side of the mold while the means for placing the electronic component into the recess supplies the component from another side of the mold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.