Patent ID: 9648756
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B23K,H05K

Claim:
1. An applying apparatus that applies a flux liquid, the applying apparatus comprising: a housing that encloses a space; a nozzle from which the flux liquid is injected, the nozzle located within the space; and an intake and exhaust unit located within the space and enclosing an internal area that does not include the nozzle, the intake and exhaust unit having (i) an intake port through which a gas that includes the flux liquid that has been injected from the nozzle enters the internal area from the space and (ii) an exhaust port through which a as from which the flux liquid has been filtered exits the internal area, wherein the intake and exhaust unit includes a filtering unit that filters the flux liquid from the gas that has entered the internal area through the intake port, the filtering unit being located between the intake port and the exhaust port in a gas flow path that extends through the internal area, and the filtering unit is movably provided within the intake and exhaust unit so that when installing/removing the filtering unit with respect to the intake and exhaust unit, the filtering unit moves in a direction substantially parallel to a direction in which the gas that includes the flux liquid enters the internal area through the intake port and in which the gas that exits the internal area is exhausted through the exhaust port.