Patents Assigned to EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
  • Patent number: 12257824
    Abstract: The application relates to a printing device for printing onto substrates, in particular solar cells, wafers or printed circuit boards, including a squeegee means and including at least one printing table, wherein the squeegee means is arranged above the printing table, and including at least one conveying means, by means of which a substrate can be transported away in each case to a printing nest below the squeegee direction and away out of the printing nest after the printing process has taken place. It is provided that the printing table has several conveying means, which are arranged side by side and aligned parallel to one another and which each have at least one printing nest, and that the squeegee means has at least one squeegee, which can be moved over each printing nest in order to print successively onto the substrates, which are arranged in the printing nests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Plachy, Lukas Sänger, Rainer Voigt
  • Patent number: 12226998
    Abstract: The application relates to a doctoring unit for a printing apparatus for printing flat substrates, in particular circuit boards, wafers, or solar cells, comprising two doctor blades, which extend parallel to one another and are pivotably mounted. It is provided that the doctor blades are operatively connected to a gearing, which is formed in a self-locking manner and can be coupled or is coupled to a drive device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventor: Torsten Vegelahn
  • Patent number: 12023906
    Abstract: A printing machine for printing on planar substrates, in particular circuit boards. The printing machine includes a printing table which extends in a horizontal plane and on which at least one substrate to be printed on can be arranged and at least one printing device assigned to the printing table. The printing device has a screen holder for an interchangeable printing screen and a doctor device assigned to the screen holder, wherein, by means of the doctor device, a printing material can be applied onto the substrate to be printed on through the printing screen. A screen magazine is assigned to the doctor device for storing at least one printing screen for the doctor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Jakob Szekeresch, Michael Hammann, Torsten Vegelahn, Werner Kreibl
  • Patent number: 11924978
    Abstract: A printing system for printing substrates, in particular circuit boards, such as wafer and solar cells, has a printing device, with a printing table on which the substrate can be positioned and a print head associated with the printing table for printing the substrates positioned on the printing table, has a feed device for feeding the substrates to be printed to the printing device, a discharge device for discharging the printed substrates from the printing device, and a plurality of substrate supports on which each of the plurality of substrates can be supported. The feed device, printing device and discharge device convey the substrate supports with the substrates located thereon. The feed device collects plurality of substrate supports and feeds them to the printing device. The printing device prints the substrates on the collected substrate supports, and the discharge device separates and discharges these collected substrate supports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Torsten Vegelahn, Jakob Szekeresch
  • Patent number: 11801673
    Abstract: A screen provision system, for a printing device with a screen receptacle for a printing screen-and a squeegee device associated with the screen receptacle, has a conveying device for conveying a printing screen and at least one screen magazine with multiple screen storage portions that can each receive a printing screen. The screen provision system has at least one treatment station for treating the printing screens. The conveying device supplies printing screens to the screen magazine and to the at least one treatment station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: EXENTIS GROUP AG, EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Srdan Vasic, Markus Engel, Franz Plachy, Hubert Reinisch
  • Patent number: 11577502
    Abstract: A printing device for printing substrates, such as circuit boards, wafers, or solar cells, has at least one movably mounted printing unit with a working surface on which the substrate to be printed can be placed. The printing unit is paired with a transport belt device, which has a supply roller with a transport belt wound thereon, a collection roller for winding up the transport belt, and two deflecting surfaces, in particular deflecting rollers, which are paired with the working surface. The transport belt is guided by the supply roller over one deflecting surface and onto the working surface in order to form a contact surface for the substrates, and by the working surface over the other deflecting surface to the collection roller. The deflecting surfaces can be moved together with the respective printing unit. The supply and collection rollers are held on the printing device in a stationary manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert Reinisch
  • Patent number: 11376838
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for printing substrates, in particular solar cells, wafers, circuit boards or the like, has at least one printing device, which is assigned at least one movable printing table, having a conveyor track along which the substrates can be moved, and having a transport device for transporting the substrates from the conveyor track to the at least one printing device and back. The transport device has at least one transport pendulum which can be pivoted or rotated about a pendulum axis and which has the printing table at at least one end at a distance from the pendulum axis. The printing table can be pivoted by the transport pendulum into a first position assigned to the printing device for a printing operation and into a second position lying in the conveyor track. The printing table has a conveying device which also forms the conveyor track in the second position of the printing table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert Reinisch
  • Publication number: 20200016886
    Abstract: A printing apparatus for printing substrates, in particular solar cells, wafers, circuit boards or the like, has at least one printing device, which is assigned at least one movable printing table, having a conveyor track along which the substrates can be moved, and having a transport device for transporting the substrates from the conveyor track to the at least one printing device and back. The transport device has at least one transport pendulum which can be pivoted or rotated about a pendulum axis and which has the printing table at at least one end at a distance from the pendulum axis. The printing table can be pivoted by the transport pendulum into a first position assigned to the printing device for a printing operation and into a second position lying in the conveyor track. The printing table has a conveying device which also forms the conveyor track in the second position of the printing table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Applicant: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventor: Hubert REINISCH
  • Patent number: 10143089
    Abstract: A printing system for printing substrates, in particular printed circuit boards, includes a printing device having at least one printing table and a printing template assigned to the printing table. The printing system further includes a first pair of first slide elements and a second pair of second slide elements for aligning a substrate on the printing table. The first pair of first slide elements can be displaced counter to one another along a first axis. The second pair of second slide elements can be displaced counter to one another along a second axis, which differs from the first axis. A drive device is assigned to each pair for simultaneously displacing the slide elements thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Brosi, Gerd Krause, Klaus Mang
  • Patent number: 9211755
    Abstract: A printing table arrangement includes at least one printing device for printing of substrates, at least one printing table, a first transport device to transport the substrates being printed in a first plane, and a lifting device to move the first transport device with the first plane between a printing plane assigned to the printing device and a transport plane lying underneath. The printing table has a second transport device to transport substrates in a second plane beneath the first plane, in which the fixed spacing between the first plane and the second plane corresponds to the spacing between the printing plane and transport plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Torsten Vegelahn, Alfred Heupel, Stephan Bergmoser, Michael Hammann
  • Publication number: 20130295285
    Abstract: A printing table arrangement includes at least one printing device for printing of substrates, at least one printing table, a first transport device to transport the substrates being printed in a first plane, and a lifting device to move the first transport device with the first plane between a printing plane assigned to the printing device and a transport plane lying underneath. The printing table has a second transport device to transport substrates in a second plane beneath the first plane, in which the fixed spacing between the first plane and the second plane corresponds to the spacing between the printing plane and transport plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GmbH
    Inventors: Torsten Vegelahn, Alfred Heupel, Stephan Bergmoser, Michael Hammann
  • Publication number: 20130220773
    Abstract: A process machine and a related method for treating and/or inspecting printed circuit boards, solar cells or the like, has at least one transport device for transporting the substrates and at least one process device for processing the substrates. The transport device and process device are both separate, self-supporting, modular units. The modular units can be selectively combined with one another in such a way that the transport device undertakes the transportation of the substrates through the process device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Jakob Szekeresch, Klaus Oppelt, Gerd Krause
  • Publication number: 20100116157
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for applying media to flat substrates (2), especially printed circuit boards, said device comprising a printing device for applying media to the substrate (2) during a printing method, an optical monitoring device for checking the arrangement and/or alignment of the substrate (2) in relation to the printing device, and a dispenser (10) for the additional application of media to the substrate (2). According to the invention, the dispenser (10) is fixed in relation to the optical monitoring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Plachy, Oliver Stetter, Jakob Szekeresch
  • Publication number: 20100061832
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for processing flat substrates (2), such as circuit boards or the like to be printed, wherein the substrate (2) can be fed resting on a transport device on two opposite side edge regions (4), can be first lifted from below for the purpose of processing by means of supports (7) and pressed against corresponding hold-down pieces (10) in the side edge regions (4), and can be clamped on the corresponding side edges (11) of the substrate (2) in this position, resting on the supports (7), between two clamping strips (13), whereupon the hold-down piece (10) can be lowered to the side away from the substrate (2) and the clamping strip (13) and further below the region of the upper side (16) of the substrate (2) thus located, whereupon full-surface processing can take place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: EKRA AUTOMATISIERUNGSSYSTEME GmbH ASYS GROUP
    Inventor: Georg Baier