Abstract: A connection housing includes a base body with lateral walls, which extend around the base body on top and which enclose the component to be inserted as well as inner contacts that are arranged between the component and at least one lateral wall. Polymer protuberances for forming outer contacts are shaped onto the underside. The connection between the inner contacts of the top and the outer contacts of the underside is effected by micro-boreholes that are located underneath the component in the middle area of the base body. This results in the provision of a housing, which requires little space on a printed circuit board and which can be economically produced preferably while using laser structuring.

Abstract: An apparatus for handling electrical components is provided with a head. The head may include at least one gripper and a storage element which can be filled with the electrical components. The head may move over the substrate, and the gripper may remove components from the storage element and place them onto the substrate.

Abstract: The parts are produced by two-component injection molding. Those regions that are to be metallized consist of a first plastic and those regions that are not to be metallized consist of a second plastic. After the entire surface of the parts has been seeded, the seeding is selectively removed with the aid of a solvent in the regions which are not to be metallized. The first plastic is insoluble and the second plastic soluble in the solvent. The selective metallization then takes place by electroless metal deposition and, if appropriate, electrodeposition of metal.

Abstract: A device is used for conveying printed board assemblies. Every segment of a conveyor line is provided, on both sides, with a conveyor cheek as the lateral border. Conveyor belts driven by wheels are mounted on the inner sides of the conveyor cheeks on vertically movable boards. On the upper edges of the conveyor cheeks, connector blocks are mounted on the inner side in the longitudinal direction. The connector blocks project beyond the movable boards in such a manner that, when the movable boards are lifted, the printed board is caught with its edge on both sides between the conveyor belt and the connector block.

Abstract: A metal layer, an etching resist and a photoresist are successively applied to an electrically insulating substrate. Whereupon the photoresist is patterned by photolithography in such a way that it covers a pattern of the later coarse conductor structures and the entire region of the later fine conductor structures. After the uncovered etching resist has been stripped, the photoresist is removed, whereupon the etching resist is patterned with the aid of a laser beam in such a way that it has the pattern of the fine conductor structures. The coarse conductor structures and the fine conductor structures are then formed in a common etching process.

Abstract: Switch for flat, flexible mail items in a mail item sorting machine, wherein the mail items are transported off while clamped between two conveyor belts. According to the invention, the deflection element consists of two rigid partial deflection elements (1, 2) with a joint pivoting axis (3), which elements are positioned side-by-side in conveying direction and are fixedly connected outside of the letter flow. The joint pivoting axis (3) is located in the frontal part of the switch region, as seen in conveying direction, and away from the conveying belts (4, 5) that continue on diverging paths in the switch region. Depending on the switch position, the respective mail item, is guided in the chosen direction between one of the two partial deflection elements (1, 2) and the respective outer conveying belt (4, 5). The other partial deflection element (1, 2) in that case is completely located outside of the conveying belts (4, 5) that diverge in the switch region.

Abstract: The device is provided with a heating jaw, which softens the protective layers of optical fibers in order to be able to cut them more easily and to pull them off. For particularly thick optical fibers, the heating jaw is provided with a longitudinal groove with which the contact surface to the optical fiber is enlarged and the heating of the protective layer is accelerated.

Abstract: A configuration for positioning components within the compartments on a delivery belt prior to their removal by an onserting apparatus. The configuration can include a brush and a vibrator.