LINEAR MOTOR FOR A DEVICE FOR TESTING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS AND DEVICE FOR TESTING PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS

• US 20140077831A1
• Filed: 09/11/2013
• Published: 03/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DTG International GmbH
• Original Assignee: DTG International GmbH
• Inventors: Romanov, Victor, Kordmann, Uwe
• Application Number:
  US14/024,534
• Publication Number:
  US 20140077831A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/750.22
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/2808 Holding, conveying or contacting devices, e.g. test adapters, edge connectors, extender boards probe, multiprobe, probe manipulator or probe fixture G01R1/067
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/26 consisting of printed conductors
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 3/47 Air-gap windings, i.e. iron-free windings
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 41/031 of the permanent magnet type
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 41/035 DC motors; Unipolar motors

Abstract

The invention relates to a linear motor for a device for testing a printed circuit board. The linear motor comprises a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator comprises a row of permanent magnets arranged side by side and alternating in their polarity, and wherein the rotor is formed from a printed circuit board on which conductor paths form magnet coils arranged side by side and each having several windings, which magnet coils, when carrying a current, apply a linear acceleration force to the rotor, so that the rotor is moved relative to the stator, wherein the printed circuit board is folded, so that the several windings of each magnet coil are distributed among several layers of the printed circuit board, which are placed on top of one another by folding the printed circuit board.

Claims

1. Linear motor for a device for testing printed circuit boards, having a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator comprises a row of permanent magnets arranged side by side and alternating in their polarity, and wherein the rotor is formed from a printed circuit board on which conductor paths form magnet coils arranged side by side and each having several windings, which magnet coils, when carrying a current, apply a linear acceleration force to the rotor, so that the rotor is moved relative to the stator,

wherein the printed circuit board is folded, so that the several windings of each magnet coil are distributed among several layers of the printed circuit board, which are placed on top of one another by folding the printed circuit board.

2. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the conductor path amounts to at least 75% of an electrically insulating substrate of the printed circuit board and preferably at least 100% or at least 150% of the thickness of said substrate.

3. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the conductor paths have a thickness of 30 μ

m to 100 μ

m.

4. Linear motor according to claim 2, wherein the conductor paths have a thickness of 30 μ

m to 100 μ

m.

5. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the substrate of the printed circuit board has a thickness of 20 μ

m to 100 μ

m or 20 μ

m to 60 μ

m.

6. Linear motor according to claim 4, wherein the substrate of the printed circuit board has a thickness of 20 μ

m to 100 μ

m or 20 μ

m to 60 μ

m.

7. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the conductor paths are made of copper or a copper alloy.

8. Linear motor according to claim 6, wherein the conductor paths are made of copper or a copper alloy.

9. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the conductor path has a width of 500 μ

m to 1000 μ

m at least in the region of the coils.

10. Linear motor according to claim 8, wherein the conductor path has a width of 500 μ

m to 1000 μ

m at least in the region of the coils.

11. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the edges of adjacent windings of a coil on a layer have a mutual distance of no more than 1 mm, in particular no more than 0.25 mm or no more than 0.1 mm.

12. Linear motor according to claim 10, wherein the edges of adjacent windings of a coil on a layer have a mutual distance of no more than 1 mm, in particular no more than 0.25 mm or no more than 0.1 mm.

13. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein electric connections between the individual layers for connecting the respective windings of a coil are exclusively designed as conductor paths routed over a folding edge of the printed circuit board formed by folding or as through-plated holes which electrically connect the windings of the coil on both sides of the respective layer.

14. Linear motor according to claim 12, wherein electric connections between the individual layers for connecting the respective windings of a coil are exclusively designed as conductor paths routed over a folding edge of the printed circuit board formed by folding or as through-plated holes which electrically connect the windings of the coil on both sides of the respective layer.

15. Linear motor according to claim 13, wherein all conductor paths and the through-plated holes of one coil and in particular of all coils are designed monolithic.

16. Linear motor according to claim 14, wherein all conductor paths and the through-plated holes of one coil and in particular of all coils are designed monolithic.

17. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein an insulating foil is placed between the individual folded layers.

18. Linear motor according to claim 16, wherein an insulating foil is placed between the individual folded layers.

19. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein the printed circuit board is provided with an insulating layer.

20. Linear motor according to claim 18, wherein the printed circuit board is provided with an insulating layer.

21. Linear motor according to claim 1, wherein a pneumatic suspension is formed between the rotor and the stator.

22. Linear motor according to claim 20, wherein a pneumatic suspension is formed between the rotor and the stator.

23. Device for testing printed circuit boards, comprising a slide on which a test finger is pivotably mounted, the test finger being provided at the end remote from the slide with a test probe with a contact pin for contacting contact points of a printed circuit board to be tested, in particular of a non-componented printed circuit board to be tested, wherein a device is provided for the vertical movement of the test finger relative to the slide, wherein the device for the vertical movement of the test finger is a linear motor a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator comprises a row of permanent magnets arranged side by side and alternating in their polarity, and wherein the rotor is formed from a printed circuit board on which conductor paths form magnet coils arranged side by side and each having several windings, which magnet coils, when carrying a current, apply a linear acceleration force to the rotor, so that the rotor is moved relative to the stator, wherein the printed circuit board is folded, so that the several windings of each magnet coil are distributed among several layers of the printed circuit board, which are placed on top of one another by folding the printed circuit board.

24. Device according to claim 23, wherein the test finger is held pivotably on the slide by means of a swiveling device, the swiveling device comprising a curved linear motor.

25. Device according to claim 23, wherein the slide is capable of traversing along a cross-bar by a linear motor.

26. (canceled)