Abstract: A flip chip assembly machine (FCAM) (30) includes a main gantry (50) and a substrate camera gantry (40) that are configured to operate independently of each other and, respectively, support a die (12) and a substrate camera (38) for alignment purposes. The FCAM further includes a fluxer (130) for applying flux to the die. A flip-to-flux pick and place subassembly (116) picks up a die and places it in flux (46) independently of the operation of the main gantry, which may perform another task during the flux dwell time. A substrate carrier conveyor (154) includes a walking beam (260) to rapidly accelerate and decelerate substrate carrier movement into and out of the FCAM.

Abstract: A grinding machine is particularly adapted to produce blades and buckets of the kind used in turbines and other objects having complex curved surfaces. Data blocks representing the surface of the object to be created are stored in a computer that controls the machine to finish a rough blank into the final object. An abrasive belt passes over a nose roller to make a line contact with the workpiece. The belt and the workpiece are subject to six computer-controlled degrees of freedom: three in translation and three in rotation. The supporting arm of the nose roller can be moved angularly about the belt contact point while the nose roller can be adjusted about a perpendicular axis through the contact point of the belt. Feedback controls indicate the position of and the motion velocity about the six axes. A positional feedback indicates the precise position of the workpiece at the finishing point to permit automatic compensation for belt wear.

Abstract: A three pole relay which operates in response to the flow of normal operating current across fluorescent lamps to activate a coil, the coil coperating a relay to open switches disposed in all of the filament lines associated with the lamp to shut off filament current while maintaining current flow across the lamps themselves.

Abstract: Processes and apparatus for fabricating belts are disclosed comprising conveying a first mandrel to a wrapping station, supplying the leading edge of a web from a web supply roll to the first mandrel at the wrapping station, retaining the leading edge of the web on the first mandrel by means of a partial vacuum, wrapping the web around the first mandrel by rotating the first mandrel for about one revolution, severing the web at the wrapping station to form a trailing edge which overlaps the leading edge of the web to form a first belt having a seam, substantially simultaneously conveying the first mandrel to a welding station and conveying a second mandrel to the wrapping station, and substantially simultaneously wrapping the second mandrel with fresh web material from the web supply roll and welding the seam on the first belt on the first mandrel to form a unitary belt. These welded belts may be automatically removed from the mandrels at a belt discharge station.

Abstract: A process for separating blood plasma from whole blood that dispenses with the known centrifugal-separation techniques and involves passing whole blood along a flow path which is shallow and substantially parallel to the upstream side of filtration membrane, recovering plasma from the downstream side of said membrane, and recovering the retained blood components (formed elements) from the upstream side of the membrane. .Iadd .