Patent ID: 8091759
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: B23K

Abstract:
1. A soldering machine for wave soldering and/or reflow soldering and/or vapor phase soldering and/or selective soldering of components mounted on circuit boards, comprising means for transporting the circuit boards in a predetermined transport direction through the soldering machine and past a soldering station for wave soldering and/or reflow soldering, supply lines for supplying various goods to the soldering station, and a soldering module, wherein the soldering station is a floor standing unit mounted on mobility means including wheels and/or rollers configured to contact a floor so that the soldering station is mobile and exchangeably insertable in the soldering module to provide flexible adaptation of the soldering machine, the soldering station and the soldering module are equipped with means for mutual alignment and with female and male plugs, which fit with one another and which terminate the supply lines, and wherein said transport direction of the frames runs horizontally.