Paste dispenser for applying paste containing fillers using nozzle with pin and application method using the same

• US 9,162,249 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2009
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Koyama, Masayoshi, Tsukahara, Norihito, Komyoji, Daido
• Primary Examiner(s): Kurple, Karl
• Application Number:
  US12/568,347
• Publication Number:
  US 20100080912A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,213 Days
• Field of Search: 118/401, 118/241, 118/684, 228/248.1, 222/333, 222/504, 222/420, 222/422, 222/518, 427/256, 427/207.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 1/027 only at particular parts of the articles at particular parts of work of indefinite length B05C1/16
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 11/1034 specially designed for conducting intermittent application of small quantities, e.g. drops, of coating material B05C5/0225, B05C11/1026 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 5/02 the liquid or other fluent material being discharged through an outlet orifice by pressure, e.g. from an outlet device in contact or almost in contact, with the work
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 5/0212 only at particular parts of the articles at particular part of web, band, strip, belt or ribbon B05C5/025
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 5/0225 characterised by flow controlling means, e.g. valves, located proximate the outlet B05C5/0258, B05C5/0275 take precedence; supply valves upstream the coating head B05C11/1036
• CPC Class Codes: B05C 9/02 for applying liquid or other fluent material to surfaces by single means not covered by groups B05C1/00 - B05C7/00, whether or not also using other means
• CPC Class Codes: B05D 1/26 performed by applying the liquid or other fluent material from an outlet device in contact with, or almost in contact with, the surface
• CPC Class Codes: B05D 3/0466 the gas being a non-reacting gas B05D3/0406 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 1/0016 Brazing of electronic components
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 2101/40 Semiconductor devices
• CPC Class Codes: B23K 3/0692 with intermediary means for bringing solder on workpiece, e.g. rollers
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 11/00 Apparatus requiring external operation adapted at each repeated and identical operation to measure and separate a predetermined volume of fluid or fluent solid material from a supply or container, without regard to weight, and to deliver it
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2203/0126 Dispenser, e.g. for solder paste, for supplying conductive paste for screen printing or for filling holes
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/3485 Applying solder paste, slurry or powder thick film methods for applying conductive paste or ink patterns H05K3/12

Abstract

A pin (125) is moved down in a nozzle (121), the end of paste (101) protruded from the discharge opening (122) of the nozzle (121) to a target object (102) is brought into contact with the target object (102), and the pin (125) is moved away from the discharge opening (122) to divide the paste in contact with the target object.

Claims

1. A paste dispenser comprising:

a nozzle which has a discharge opening formed on an end, is disposed above a target object with the discharge opening placed at a bottom of said nozzle, and said nozzle is filled with paste containing fillers, with an inside of the nozzle having a shape tapered toward the discharge opening, wherein at least one of the nozzle and the target object moves to decrease or increase a distance between the nozzle and the target object;

said nozzle is placed in an elevator mount, said elevator mount raises and lowers the nozzle, and

a pin which is disposed in the nozzle, and which moves toward and away from the discharge opening, an end of the pin being smaller than the discharge opening, a space being defined between the pin and an inner periphery of the discharge opening so the pin does not contact the inner periphery of the discharge opening, wherein the end of the pin does not protrude from the discharge opening to an outside of the nozzle;

an upper end of said pin is attached to a slider, said pin is moved up and down by movement of the slider up and down,

wherein the pin is configured to approach the discharge opening so as not to drip the paste from the discharge opening when the discharge opening of the nozzle approaches the target object, and separate the paste in contact with the target object from the paste around the discharge opening, by moving the pin away from the discharge opening in synchronization with a movement increasing a distance between the nozzle and the target object when the paste protruded toward the target object from the nozzle is in contact with the target object;

wherein said pin is configured to move away from the discharge opening at a velocity at least twice a velocity at which the pin is moved toward the discharge opening.

2. The paste dispenser according to claim 1, wherein at a position where the discharge opening of the nozzle is close to the target object, a height from a surface of the target object to the discharge opening is in a range from 0.5 times to 1.5 times as large as a bore of the discharge opening.

3. The paste dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the pin has an end shaped such that a larger resistance is applied from the paste when the pin is moved away from the discharge opening than when the pin is moved toward the discharge opening.

7. The paste dispenser according to claim 1, wherein the target object is moved toward and away from the nozzle.

8. The paste dispenser according to claim 1, wherein when the nozzle is moved toward the target object, the target object is moved toward the nozzle, and when the nozzle is moved away from the target object, the target object is moved away from the nozzle.

9. The paste dispenser according to claim 1, wherein an end shape of the pin is columnar and recessed portions are circumferentially-formed on the end of the pin.

10. The paste dispenser according to claim 1, wherein an end of the pin has a plurality of tapered shapes toward the end of the pin, the plurality of tapered shapes being stacked in an axial direction.

4. A paste dispenser comprising:

a nozzle which has a discharge opening formed on an end, with an inside of the nozzle having a shape tapered toward the discharge opening, is disposed above a target object with the discharge opening placed at a bottom of said nozzle, and said nozzle is filled with paste containing fillers, and said nozzle is moved toward and away from the target object;

a pin which is disposed in the nozzle, and said pin moves toward and away from the tapered shape of the discharge opening, wherein an end of the pin does not protrude from the discharge opening to an outside of the nozzle, a space being defined between the pin and an inner periphery of the discharge opening so the pin does not contact the inner periphery of the discharge opening;

an upper end of said pin is attached to a slider, said pin is moved up and down by movement of the slider up and down,

an elevator mount for raising and lowering the nozzle and the pin;

a first heater which heats the paste containing the fillers in the nozzle to at least a melting point of the filler; and

a port for discharging an inert gas disposed around a periphery of the discharge opening of the nozzle,

wherein the pin is configured to approach the discharge opening so as not to drip the paste from the discharge opening when the discharge opening of the nozzle approaches the target object and separate the paste in contact with the target object from the paste around the discharge opening, by moving the pin away from the discharge opening in synchronization with a movement increasing a distance between the nozzle and the target object when the paste protruded toward the target object from the nozzle is in contact with the target object;

wherein said pin is configured to move away from the discharge opening at a velocity at least twice a velocity at which the pin is moved toward the discharge opening.

5. The paste dispenser according to claim 4, wherein the pin has an end shaped such that a larger resistance is applied from the paste when the pin is moved away from the discharge opening than when the pin is moved toward the discharge opening.

6. The paste dispenser according to claim 4, wherein at a position where the discharge opening of the nozzle is close to the target object, a height from a surface of the target object to the discharge opening is in a range from 0.5 times to 1.5 times as large as a bore of the discharge opening.

11. The paste dispenser according to claim 4, wherein the first heater is provided an outer periphery of the nozzle, and the inert gas is passed between the first heater and the nozzle.

12. The paste dispenser according to claim 4, wherein a second heater is provided under the target object.