Patents by Inventor Akio Inomata

Akio Inomata has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6120585
    Abstract: A reflow soldering device extracts a vaporized component of a contaminative material, such as flux, from exhaust gas from a reflow furnace. The device includes a conveyor for transferring a circuit substrate, a heater for heating the transferred circuit substrate, a cooler for cooling the circuit substrate which has been reflow soldered by heater, discharge pipes and a discharge blower for discharging an exhaust gas at high temperature from the heater to the outside of the device, and a flux remover mounted in the discharge pipes which cools the exhaust gas to 70.degree. C. and below, preferably 60.degree. C. and below, so as to cause a vaporized component, such as flux contained in the exhaust gas, to become liquid or solid and to be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Inomata, Masaru Nonomura, Masuo Masui, Naoichi Chikahisa