Method of processing electronic substrates using vertically separated pass through conveyor system
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorDennis G. Doyle
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for depositing viscous material on an electronic substrate. The apparatus comprises a frame, an assembly material applicator coupled to the frame and configured to apply assembly material to the electronic substrate, a substrate support assembly, coupled to the frame, configured to support and secure the electronic substrate in a material application position, and a transport system, coupled to the frame, to shuttle electronic substrates to and from the substrate support assembly, the transport system including an upper track and a lower track disposed below the upper track.
Claims19
A method of processing electronic substrates comprising:
- loading a first electronic substrate onto an upper track within a first assembly material applicator;
- bringing a lower track of the first assembly material applicator positioned directly beneath the upper track and within the first assembly material applicator into a position in which the lower track of the first assembly material applicator is aligned with an upper track of a second assembly material applicator;
- raising the upper track of the first assembly material applicator relative to the lower track of the first assembly material applicator;
- loading a second electronic substrate on to the lower track of the first assembly material applicator;
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- transporting the second electronic substrate to the upper track of the second assembly material applicator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.