Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for bonding solder balls to connecting points which are provided on a substrate in a predetermined pattern. The solder balls are placed into holes provided in a plate-shaped element, which holes are each capable of accommodating one solder ball, and which are provided in the plate-shaped element in a pattern which corresponds with the pattern of the connecting points on the substrate. A combination of at least one substrate and a plate-shaped element containing solder balls is passed, by means of a conveying element, through a housing in which the solder balls are subjected to a heat treatment. The combinations, which each consist of at least one plate-shaped element and at least one substrate, are passed through the housing by the conveying element via lock mechanisms disposed near an inlet and near an outlet of the housing. Inside the housing the solder balls are placed into the holes provided in the plate-shaped element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for selectively electroplating apertured products. The products are masked in accordance with the intended plating and subsequently exposed to an electrolyte in order to electroplate the products. For masking purposes a fully closed photoresist layer is electrophoretically applied to the products, and after drying of the photoresist layer, the products are covered with a photomask in accordance with the locations to be plated, after which exposure takes place. Then the photoresist layer is partially removed, while the remaining part of the photoresist layer remains behind on the products, to serve as a mask for the metal products upon electroplating.