Patent ID: 9475078
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: B05B,B05C,B08B

Claim Text:
1. A material deposition system for depositing material on an electronic substrate, the material deposition system comprising: a frame; a support coupled to the frame, the support being configured to support an electronic substrate during a deposit operation; a gantry coupled to the frame; two deposition heads coupled to the gantry, each deposition head including a needle, the deposition heads being movable over the support by movement of the gantry; a needle cleaner assembly movable on a needle cleaner gantry, the needle cleaner assembly being configured to clean needles of the deposition heads simultaneously; and a controller configured to control the operation of the needle cleaner assembly to perform a needle cleaning operation, wherein the needle cleaner assembly includes a base plate secured to the needle cleaner gantry by two brackets and two needle cleaners, one for each deposition head, secured to the base plate, the base plate having a slot formed therein to enable positioning of the two needle cleaners during setup and calibration of the system, wherein a spacing between the two needle cleaners is adjusted by sliding a first needle cleaner with respect to a second needle cleaner along a length of the base plate to correspond to a spacing between the two needles of the dispensing units.