Patent ID: 6223975
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: B23K,F26B,F27B

Abstract:
Method for the temperature regulation of components, for example semiconductor circuits (18), printed circuit boards, in which the components are conveyed on carriers (4, 17, 21, 22, 24, 27, 34, 42) through an inlet slot into a temperature-regulating housing (1) provided with temperature-regulating members (11, 12) and are conveyed out through an outlet slot (19) opposite the inlet slot (15), characterized in that the carriers (4, 17, 21, 22, 24, 27, 34, 42) are accommodated by a magazine (2) in the housing (1), which magazine is provided with adjacently arranged holders (3) and, after the first holder (3) has been loaded, is displaced progressively in one direction from a starting position into successive accommodating positions in which the individual holders of the magazine (2) are loaded one after the other, whereupon, after all the holders (3) have been loaded, the magazine thus filled is displaced, from the end position that has been reached in the process, back to its starting position in a fast reverse run in the opposite direction, in which starting position a carrier (4, 17, 21, 22, 24, 27, 34, 42) is conveyed in through the inlet slot (15) and, with the magazine (2) having been filled, the first temperature-regulated carrier in the magazine (2) is conveyed out through the outlet slot (19) and, with the successive loading of the individual holders (3) of the magazine (2), the individual temperature-regulated carriers are conveyed out successively, a temperature-regulated carrier (22) being replaced by a non-temperature-regulated carrier (21) and the residence time of the carriers in the magazine (2) corresponding, for all of the carriers, to the period of time between to two reverse runs, until all the holders (3) of the magazine (2) are loaded again in the end position reached by the said magazine, whereupon, after the reverse run of the magazine (2) to the starting position, the magazine (2) is progressively loaded again.