System for post-processing of electronic components

US8717048B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Multitest Elektronische Systeme GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Reinhart Richter · Hofolding, DE
• Andreas Nagy · Munich, DE
• Bernhard Lorenz · Marzling, DE
• Max Schaule · Mindelheim, DE
• Stefan Kurz · Frankfurt, DE
• Thomas Hofmann · San Diego, US
• Helmut Scheibenzuber · Feldkirchen-Westerham, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 18, 2010
• Grant date: May 6, 2014
• Expiry date: Jan 12, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49998
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method of post-processing a plurality of electronic components in a post-processing machine after fabrication of the electronic components including providing a carrier with align fixtures, which align fixtures have a clamping mechanism, actuating the clamping mechanism to enlarge a size of receptacles, each of the receptacles is assigned to one of the align fixtures and the enlarged receptacles are larger than the electronic components to be received, positioning the electronic components in the receptacles of the align fixtures, actuating the clamping mechanism to reduce a size of the receptacles so that the electronic components are aligned within the receptacles of the carrier, placing the carrier in the post processing machine, and subjecting the electronic components to operations of the post-processing machine while the electronic components maintain in aligned positions in the receptacles of the carrier.