Abstract: A method for making in a single step a multiple-ply panel comprising the steps of forming and sandwiching a raw mat assembly of resinated furnish between two sheets of green incised wood veneer, applying a layer of thermosetting high-moisture tolerant adhesive at interfaces between the green veneer and core mat, and applying pressure and heat to cure the consolidated panel assembly for a duration sufficient to secure good internal bond within the substrate panel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film comprising a backing and an adhesive. The backing comprises a base layer comprising a first major surface and a second major surface, and at least two rails, each rail comprising a tip surface. The rails extend from the second major surface of the base layer and define micro-channels therebetween. The micro-channels comprise a channel surface. The film comprises an adhesive on the tip surface of the rails. At least a portion of the channel surface is substantially free of adhesive. The present invention also relates to a method of protecting an automobile comprising preparing an automobile surface for application of a protective tape and applying a protective tape to the automobile surface. The present invention is additionally related to a method of manufacturing a protective film.

Abstract: A method of applying a tread (3) to a tire casing (1) wherein a prevulcanized tread (3) is applied to the tire casing (1) via an intermediate layer of non-vulcanized rubber binder (2), and wherein the layer of rubber binder (2) is heated by supplying current to the layer through an electrically conductive wire (4). The wire used in accordance with the invention comprises a multiple of wires or strands (4a). The invention also relates specifically to such a multiwire element.

Abstract: Methods of preparing adhesive-backed articles and methods of applying adhesives backed articles are described. The adhesive-backed articles include a compliant film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive having a microstructured surface opposite the compliant film.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an in-mold label having a roughened inside surface to engage an article being molded in the mold. This roughened inside surface reduces air-entrapped blistering formed during molding, the air-entrapped blisters being between the label and the molded article. Preferably the label includes a plurality of perforations therein. To create the roughened inside surface at the time of perforating the label, the perforations are made by needles passing from the outside or exterior surface of the label through the inside surface thereby creating burrs on the inside surface; the inside surface being the surface which will engage the article to be molded. The label also preferably, in addition to the plurality of perforations and roughened inside surface, includes adhesive in a pattern on the inside surface.

Abstract: A MEMS-based fuel cell package and method thereof is disclosed. The fuel cell package comprises seven layers: (1) a sub-package fuel reservoir interface layer, (2) an anode manifold support layer, (3) a fuel/anode manifold and resistive heater layer, (4) a Thick Film Microporous Flow Host Structure layer containing a fuel cell, (5) an air manifold layer, (6) a cathode manifold support structure layer, and (7) a cap. Fuel cell packages with more than one fuel cell are formed by positioning stacks of these layers in series and/or parallel. The fuel cell package materials such as a molded plastic or a ceramic green tape material can be patterned, aligned and stacked to form three dimensional microfluidic channels that provide electrical feedthroughs from various layers which are bonded together and mechanically support a MEMS-based miniature fuel cell. The package incorporates resistive heating elements to control the temperature of the fuel cell stack.

Abstract: A method of embossing expanded graphite sheet material comprises embossing the material in an embossing atmosphere at a reduced pressure less than atmospheric pressure and maintaining a reduced pressure at least during the embossing step. Preferably, the pressure of the embossing atmosphere is less than or equal to about 400 torr. The embossing atmosphere may comprise an inert gas, such as nitrogen, helium and argon, for example.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for bonding a coating to a web of cloth or foam without sacrificing the characteristics of the spandex mesh or foam. The coating and the cloth or foam are bonded and heated and then conveyed to an aspiration device for removing air between the coating and the cloth, thereby providing a thorough bonding therebetween.

Abstract: A method for forming complexly shaped composite laminate assemblies. A pair of dry fiber preforms are placed on a tool with a thin film adhesive layer therebetween. A vacuum bag encloses the preforms and the adhesive layer. The preforms are heated to a temperature sufficient to cause the adhesive to become viscous and to wet several plys of each of the preforms. The preforms are then allowed to cool slightly before resin is infused via a vacuum source through each of the preforms to thoroughly wet each of the preforms. The resulting joint formed at the bond line of the two preforms is stronger than what would be formed simply by adhering two otherwise completely formed preforms together because the dry fiber preforms, in connection with the heating of the preforms, allow wetting of several plys of each of the preforms at the joint area, rather than just the surface ply of each preform.

Abstract: Voids (26) at the interface of a printed circuit board (10) bonded to a heat sink (24) which impede heat transfer from a heat generating electronic component (12) mounted on the printed circuit board (10) to the heat sink (24), and thus limit the density of electronic components (12) that may be mounted to a given printed circuit board (10) are avoided by a method wherein the adhesive securing the printed circuit board (10) to the heat sink (24) is formed of a pressure sensitive adhesive layer (22) and a thermosetting adhesive layer (28). The latter fills the voids and thus provides for greater thermal conductivity from a heat generating component (12) to the heat sink (24) with the result in increase in heat rejection (30).

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for adhering a flexible film to a ventilated platen without air entrapment problems are described. In the apparatus, a tool body and a tool lid are connected together by a hinge means in a clam-shell configuration. The tool body has a cavity formed such that a ventilated platen can be tightly positioned therein with a top surface of the platen exposed. A flexible film is mounted to an inner surface of the tool lid facing the tool body and pushed down onto the ventilated platen while air is being withdrawn from the ventilated platen. The adhesion process for the flexible film to the platen can be completed without any air entrapment problem existing between the film and the platen.

Abstract: A computer controlled labeling apparatus having a label applying mechanism for applying labels to containers. The labeling apparatus has a motor for driving a container transport and a sensor for providing transport status information to a controlling computer. The apparatus contains at least one labeling station. Each labeling station also has a motor and a sensor, the motor drives the labeling station and the sensor provides labeling station status information to the controlling computer. The computer is programmed to process status information in conjunction with prestored information relating to the characteristics of the labeling apparatus, containers, and desired labeling and generated suitable control signals for labeling apparatus operation. Computer control for the application of stretch type label material from a continuous web of material is described.

Abstract: A method for aligning a plurality of thin film transistor tiles for constructing a flat panel display. A coverplate is arranged on a coverplate support. A first layer of a bonding material is applied to at least one of a first side of each of the tiles and a surface of the coverplate on which the tiles are to be secured. The tiles are arranged on the coverplate, such that the first layer of bonding material is arranged between the tiles and the coverplate. The tiles are connected to an alignment apparatus. The tiles are aligned relative to each other and the coverplate. The tiles are at least partially secured to the coverplate.

Abstract: A pipe repair apparatus includes an outer carrier tube, an inner bladder tube within the carrier tube, and a repair sleeve within the bladder tube. The bladder tube and the carrier tube are formed by one unitary tube which is folded back upon itself. A wick extends from the repair sleeve to the rear end of the bladder tube and permits evacuation of gases from the bladder tube when the bladder tube is flattened by a vacuum during insertion of a curable resin into the bladder tube at its forward end. The bladder tube can be inverted out of the carrier tube so as to place the repair sleeve in contact with an area to be repaired within a sewer pipe. This method may also be used to repair the damaged joint between a lateral sewer line and a main sewer line.

Abstract: A sprayable polymeric material and a process for preparing the material which contains a fibrous material, dispersed throughout the polymeric material. A restriction free spray nozzle is provided for mixing and spraying the polymeric material having a fibrous material, the nozzle having a restriction free check valve. A reinforced structure, and a method of making the structure are provided, the structure having layers of the polymeric material (both film and foam) containing the fibrous material. A flexible liner is provided of a porous geotextile fabric and a polyurethane composition comprising the fibrous material sprayed over the geotextile fabric.

Abstract: A thermal insulating device, and process for making it, are presented. The inventive thermal insulating device is formed of a cylindrically shaped shell comprising multiple layers of a continuous spiral wound anisotropic flexible graphite sheet, the layers of spiral wound graphite sheet being separated by and bonded to a cured resin.

Abstract: There is provided a method of manufacturing a glass panel and the glass panel manufactured by the method, which makes it possible to minimize the projection amount from the glass sheet surface for improved appearance and for reduced possibility of breaking-up of the depressurized condition resulting from contact with an object and also to reliably seal the vent with a relatively easy step. A number of spacers (2) are disposed between a pair of glass sheets (1A, 1B). Outer peripheries of the glass sheets (1A, 1B) are sealed with an outer periphery sealing portion (3) to form a gap (V) between the glass sheets (1A, 1B). A vent (4) is formed in one (1A) of the glass sheets (1A, 1B) for evacuating gas from the gap (V). The gas in the gap (V) is evacuated via the vent (4) to depressurize the gap (V), and then the vent (4) is sealed. A metal solder (6) is employed as a sealing material for sealing the vent (4).

Abstract: A nozzle for simultaneous application of a string of glue on two facing adjacent disc surfaces, especially for gluing together two optical disc elements to form a DVD. In order to make possible higher glue application rates and smaller dimensions of the glue application nozzle, the nozzle can steer the flow towards the facing disc elements. For this purpose, the nozzle has a channel outlet opening which has upper and lower outlet areas and therebetween a constricted outlet area.

Abstract: Curved surfaces of a preform of thermoplastic adhesive provide improved regulation of heating and exclusion of gas as surfaces to be bonded are heated and pressed against the thermoplastic adhesive preform. Particulate or filamentary materials can be added to the thermoplastic adhesive for adjustment of coefficient of thermal expansion or further increase of heat transfer through the adhesive or both. The preform is preferably fabricated by molding, preferably in combination with die-cutting of a preform of desired volume from a web of approximately the same thickness as the completed bond.

Abstract: A method of prescoring foam board for making composite panels includes impressing a pattern of ridges projecting from a surface of a die into at least one face surface of the foam board. The pattern of ridges on the die forms a pattern of indentations having three series of parallel linear indentations, each series being angularly offset from each series other by 60°. The ridges on the embossing die are pressed into the foam sufficiently deep that the the pattern of indentations impressed in the board surface after whatever springback occurs remain deep enough to enable volatiles generated in an interior zone of a panel to escape when drawn out by a vacuum pump when the foam board is heated under pressure between two face sheets of resin-preimpregnated fabric to form a composite panel.

Abstract: A laminate film has a composite structure and a bonding surface that eliminates the formation of air bubbles during the lamination process. A process for forming the laminate film includes spreading a PET film with an adhesive, drying the adhesive, and spreading a PE film, which is in a melted phase, on the dried adhesive, to form a composite film. An EVA fluid is spread on the PE film of the composite film, and the composite film with the EVA fluid is passed between first and second rollers. The first roller has a pockmarked surface and contacts the EVA fluid, thereby forming a pockmarked surface on the EVA fluid.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a semiconductor package of the type in which a gap between a semiconductor chip and a mount board is filled with a resin. The apparatus includes resin supply means for supplying the resin along one side of the semiconductor chip, and resin supply control means for controlling the amount of resin supplied by the resin supply means such that more resin is supplied near the central portion of the semiconductor chip than near the end portions of the semiconductor chip. Also provided is a method that includes the steps of connecting the semiconductor chip and the mount board, and supplying the resin along one side of the semiconductor chip in such a manner that more resin is supplied near a central portion of the semiconductor chip than near the end portions of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A method for bonding substrates to tightly bond two overlaid substrates comprises the steps of: aligning the substrates, freely falling a second substrate onto a first substrate to overlay the first and second substrates; interposing an air layer between the joining surfaces of the first and second substrates, aligning the first and second substrates and holding the aligned first and second substrates; and pressing one point of the aligned two substrates. Thus, the bonded substrates which can be aligned accurately and free from occurrence of voids or the like can be obtained.

Abstract: An integrated microfluidic element (1) composed of two juxtaposed plates (3, 5) bonded together, wherein at least one plate (3) has an etched structure or pattern of channels (7) on the surface facing the other plate (1) to form sealed micro channels (7), said element having micro spacers or posts (11) distributed over the etched surface of said one plate outside of said etched structure or pattern, and walls (9) surrounding said channels (7), said walls (9) having a height equal to that of said spacers or posts (11); and a method for the manufacture of such integrated microfluidic element.

Abstract: Boric acid is mixed, preferably at 0.1 to 10 w. % in relation to the solid content, into a sprayable dispersion based on an acrylic acid ester copolymer and a colloidal chloroprene polymerisate. The spray is applied to at least one or both substrate surfaces, the substrate surfaces to be glued are laid against each other wet and pressed together with at least 0.1 N/cm2 for at least approximately 0.5 seconds. The sprayable dispersion is preferably used for gluing foams, after a short compression the initial adhesion is so high that further processing or transport can be begun immediately.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hollow core door is disclosed, as well as a corresponding hollow core door. The method includes the steps of providing a solid flat door skin, moisturizing the flat skin, applying a conditioning resin thereto, pre-heating the flat door skin, and thereafter pressing the flat door skin between a pair of heated platens in a press in order to reform the flat skin into a molded skin including a plurality of panels defined therein. The press continously closes in order to reform the flat skin into the molded skin, with the rate of press closure being a function of the determined hardness of the flat skin to be reformed. The resulting door skins have an improved bond strength, and are efficiently manufactured.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for vacuum fusion bonding of large, patterned glass plates. One or both glass plates are patterned with etched features such as microstructure capillaries and a vacuum pumpout moat, with one plate having at least one hole therethrough for communication with a vacuum pumpout fixture. High accuracy alignment of the plates is accomplished by a temporary clamping fixture until the start of the fusion bonding heat cycle. A complete, void-free fusion bond of seamless, full-strength quality is obtained through the plates; because the glass is heated well into its softening point and because of a large, distributed force that is developed that presses the two plates together from the difference in pressure between the furnace ambient (high pressure) and the channeling and microstructures in the plates (low pressure) due to the vacuum drawn.

Abstract: An assembly for supporting a fiber optic termination or connector in a centrifuge and comprising a cylindrical body member having a top portion adapted to receive the ferrule body portion of a fiber optic termination or connector and a bottom portion for receiving a cylindrical piston/sealing unit. The piston portion of the piston/sealing unit includes a compressible tip which is adapted to a butt up against the outer end of the ferrule body portion of the fiber optic termination or connector. A cylindrical end cap fits over the upper end of the body member for holding the fiber optic termination in place on the body member and causing a seal to be formed between the termination or connector and the upper portion of the body member adjacent the compressible tip of the plunger. The parts, when fitted together, are placed in a centrifuge which is operated for a predetermined spin cycle, so as to cause any bubbles in the uncured liquid adhesive to be vented outwardly from the termination through the end cap.

Abstract: A method of fabricating solid oxide fuel cell electrodes, and in particular anodes, includes the steps of forming a microcomposite element comprising a plurality of layers of an electrically conductive tape and an electrolyte tape, with the plurality of layers forming a first electrically conductive pattern. A plurality of microcomposite subelements are created from the microcomposite element, with each microcomposite subelement having the first electrically conductive pattern. A plurality of the microcomposite subelements are juxtaposed to one another and also rotated in planes substantially parallel to one another. Thereby, a totality of the first electrically conductive patterns form a second electrically conductive pattern in the anode. Electrical conduction is established with the patterns all being in electrical contact with one another.

Abstract: An inner curing envelope for use during a tire retreading process. The inner curing envelope is placed within the inside of a tire casing and cooperates with an outer sealing envelope for encasing a tire. A plurality of grooves are molded in a tire confronting face of the inner curing envelope to provide passageways to ensure that air/gas located adjacent the interior surface of the tire casing is completely evacuated when a vacuum is drawn within the envelopes.

Abstract: An endless belt construction and method of making the same are provided, the endless belt construction being formed mainly of polymeric material and comprising a tension section, a compression section, a load carrying section disposed between the tension section and the compression section and being secured thereto, one of the sections comprising a plurality of layers of polymeric material disposed in stacked relation, and a paper-thin sheet of non-woven material disposed between an adjacent pair of the layers of polymeric material and being secured thereto during heat curing of the belt construction, wherein the thin sheet bleeds gaseous matter trapped between the adjacent pair of layers during the heat curing.

Abstract: The invention is a plastic safety cover for covering bolts and similar hardware items that may extend from construction projects such as building scaffolding. The invention is designed to be used to cover bolts etc. that extend outward from scaffolding found on construction sites urban areas. The cover may use commercially sold plastic caps that are typically in use on many items sold in retail. The cover should have a series of weep holes in order to permit drainage of water from the cover and should have an aperture cut in the top wall in order to accommodate the bolt that may protrude through the upper wall.

Abstract: A vacuum laminating apparatus includes a laminating space formed by a base member, a tube having deaeration holes, and a flexible lid member.

Abstract: An improved vacuum fusion bonding structure and process for aligned bonding of large area glass plates, patterned with microchannels and access holes and slots, for elevated glass fusion temperatures. Vacuum pumpout of all components is through the bottom platform which yields an untouched, defect free top surface which greatly improves optical access through this smooth surface. Also, a completely non-adherent interlayer, such as graphite, with alignment and location features is located between the main steel platform and the glass plate pair, which makes large improvements in quality, yield, and ease of use, and enables aligned bonding of very large glass structures.

Abstract: A patch of fibre reinforced plastics composite material, a repair kit including such a patch and a method of using such a patch and repair kit are provided. The patch (1) is for attachment to a surface (17) of a fibre reinforced plastics composite structure (11) over an area of damage (10) to the structure. The patch defines an outer surface (3), a bonding surface (4) opposed thereto and a peripheral edge. The patch includes fibre reinforcement and plastics matrix material with the latter being in a final state of hardness. The patch defines a series of small apertures (6) therethrough to allow the passage of gases and other matter through the patch to prevent entrapped air weakening the repair.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for vacuum fusion bonding of large, patterned glass plates. One or both glass plates are patterned with etched features such as microstructure capillaries and a vacuum pumpout moat, with one plate having at least one hole therethrough for communication with a vacuum pumpout fixture. High accuracy alignment of the plates is accomplished by a temporary clamping fixture until the start of the fusion bonding heat cycle. A complete, void-free fusion bond of seamless, full-strength quality is obtained through the plates; because the glass is heated well into its softening point and because of a large, distributed force that is developed that presses the two plates together from the difference in pressure between the furnace ambient (high pressure) and the channeling and microstructures in the plates (low pressure) due to the vacuum drawn.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for making bladders filled with a high viscosity fluid or gel. An elastic film is placed over a cavity formed in a first mold half and vacuum drawn into the shape of the cavity. A quantity of fluid is then deposited on the first film in the cavity and the first film and fluid are overlaid with a second film. The second mold half is placed in register with the first mold half to mate opposed sealing surfaces along an outer perimeter of the cavity. The vacuum is released to expel air from the cavity between the first and second films through channels corresponding to transverse grooves formed in the sealing surface of the first mold half. The first and second films are then welded at the sealing surfaces to form a sealed bladder filled with the fluid, and the fluid-filled bladder is removed from the mold halves.

Abstract: A system and method dispense resin between substrates. A top substrate device holds a top substrate concave up. A bottom substrate device holds a bottom substrate concave down. A resin dispensing device has a needle and dispenses a trajectory of resin defined by an arc having a tangent that touches a tangent of a concave-up-shaped top substrate. The top substrate device may be arranged to include a dampening mechanism to cause a dampened release of the top substrate. Moreover, the top substrate device may be arranged to hold a top substrate so that the top substrate has a continuous concave-up shape extending from a center portion of the top substrate to its outer diameter, and the bottom substrate device may be arranged to hold a bottom substrate so that the bottom substrate has a continuous concave-down shape extending from a center portion of the bottom substrate to its outer diameter.

Abstract: A tube blank 2' whose inside is divided into an air chamber 3 and a sealant chamber 7 by a partition wall 5 has an air relief port 4.sub.1 provided in a sealant chamber peripheral wall 4o and communicating a sealant chamber 7. At a vulcanizing step, the tube blank 2' is placed into a heating die 18, and a gas of a high temperature and a high pressure is supplied into an air chamber 3. This causes air remaining in the sealant chamber 7 to be discharged through the air relief port 4.sub.1, while bringing the partition wall 5 into close contact with the sealant chamber peripheral wall 4o, thereby performing a reliable vulcanization. When the tube blank 2' is removed from the heating die 18, the sealant chamber 7 is not expanded because of the existing of the air relief port 4.sub.1 and therefore, the partition wall 5 cannot be provided with an expanding tendency that forces the wall 5 to be stretched toward the air chamber peripheral wall 4i.

Abstract: The invention proposes a lamellar wood panel (1) comprising stacked, flatly superposed wood layers (3) cemented to each other at pairwise adjacent large faces (15), part of the wood layers (3) having mutually transverse fiber direction, part of the large surfaces (15) being fitted with a plurality of slots whereby the slots of the adjacent large surfaces (15) are mutually crossing, at least in part, pairwise adjacent wood layers (3) having mutually transverse fiber directions.The invention also proposes a method for manufacturing a lamellar wood panel (1) in which wood layers (3) are stacked together and cemented to each other, at least part of the wood layers (3) with mutually transverse fiber directions being stacked, slots being fitted in part of the wood-layer large surfaces (15), the wood layers (3) being stacked, and the wood stack being moved into a tightly sealable enclosure which is evacuated during at least part of the cement setting period.

Abstract: An improved vacuum fusion bonding structure and process for aligned bonding of large area glass plates, patterned with microchannels and access holes and slots, for elevated glass fusion temperatures. Vacuum pumpout of all the components is through the bottom platform which yields an untouched, defect free top surface which greatly improves optical access through this smooth surface. Also, a completely non-adherent interlayer, such as graphite, with alignment and location features is located between the main steel platform and the glass plate pair, which makes large improvements in quality, yield, and ease of use, and enables aligned bonding of very large glass structures.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for applying a bonding layer to a member of an optical recording medium and for bonding together members of an optical recording medium. The methods and apparatus are useful for assembling optical recording media such as compact disks (CDs) and digital versatile disks (DVDs), and are particularly well suited for use with pressure sensitive adhesives.

Abstract: A wick for use in forming a vacuum between a curing envelope and a tire during a tire retreading process, and a method for the manufacture of the wick. The wick is provided by a pad of rubber reinforced with a stretchable fabric material and engagable with a valve which extends through the curing envelope. The wick has a face with a pattern of grooves forming a network of gas passageways to the valve to ensure complete evacuation of all gases when the vacuum is drawn between the curing envelope and tire. The method of manufacture of the wick includes locating unvulcanized rubber and fabric material between a pair of mold dies, and closing the mold dies to form the pad and simultaneously embed the fabric within the rubber. In addition, one of the mold dies form a network of grooves in one of the faces of the pad.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing insulators with excellent high-voltage performance having a core member, a sheath arranged on an outer surface of the core member and a shed arranged on an outer surface of the sheath is disclosed. In a first aspect of the invention, a method includes the steps of arranging the sheath made of non-cured polymer materials on an outer surface of the core member, arranging a plurality of the sheds made of cured polymer materials on an outer surface of the sheath, and curing the sheath to connect the sheath to the sheds. In a second aspect of the invention, a method includes the steps of arranging the sheath made of cured polymer materials on an outer surface of the core member, arranging a plurality sheds made of cured polymer materials on an outer surface of the sheath, and connecting the sheath to the sheds by using adhesives.

Abstract: A vacuum laminating apparatus includes a laminating space formed by a base member, a tube having deaeration holes, and a flexible lid member. A vacuum laminating method places the material to be laminated within the laminating space and heats the material while creating a vacuum in the space.

Abstract: A method for applying a label, and a label for in-mold molding which comprises a printed layer formed on a surface of a non-oriented plastic base film over which a membrane layer for bonding to be welded by the heat of molded article at the time of the in-mold molding is overlapped. The label is inserted into a mold for the in-mold molding, the label is held on the proper position in the mold by vacuum suction, or by static electricity, and a moldable article, such as a container, is molded by injecting, filling the plastics into the mold or by expanding a parison which was placed in the mold.

Abstract: A first sheet (10, 32, 56) is coated by a coater (47) with a pattern comprising a plurality of discrete domains (12, 34) of a low-viscosity adhesive and is then laminated to a second sheet (70) by a paired-roller laminator (62). The viscosity of the adhesive is sufficiently low and the pressure of the laminator sufficiently high that the plurality of adhesive domains (12) are caused to spread during lamination and to displace air from between the sheets, forming thereby a single domain of adhesive which just fills the space between the sheets without adhesive being extruded substantially beyond the edges of the sheets and without air bubbles or voids being entrapped between the sheets. In a preferred pattern, the domains (12) comprise stripes of adhesive with spaces (14) therebetween, the stripes being substantially parallel to the direction of lamination (16).

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for manufacturing a semiconductor package of the type in which a gap between a semiconductor chip and a mount board is filled with a resin. The apparatus includes resin supply means for supplying the resin along one side of the semiconductor chip, and resin supply control means for controlling the amount of resin supplied by the resin supply means such that more resin is supplied near the central portion of the semiconductor chip than near the end portions of the semiconductor chip. Also provided is a method that includes the steps of connecting the semiconductor chip and the mount board, and supplying the resin along one side of the semiconductor chip in such a manner that more resin is supplied near a central portion of the semiconductor chip than near the end portions of the semiconductor chip.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of making connections by gluing terminals or like components to a resistive track for a heating plate. A terminal for use in this method is also disclosed. Fine lamellae are cut out from one or more areas of the base of the terminal, which is coated with a conductive resin. The conductive resin is then dried and cross-linked to glue the terminal to the resistive track. During this step, the lamellae serve as drains to evacuate the bubbles of gas that form. Applications include heating plates for kettles or similar heating receptacles.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for improved wafer bonding by scrubbing, spin drying, aligning, and pressing the polished wafers together. The first wafer (13) is mounted on a flat wafer chuck (11) and a second wafer (14) is mounted on a convex pressure gradient chuck (10). Wafers are scrubbed until a polished contamination free surface is obtained and pressed together. The convex pressure gradient chuck exerts a higher pressure at the center of the wafer than at the periphery of the wafer.