Abstract: A profile piece includes: an extruded piece of a first material having a mouth portion along at least part of its length; and an insert of a second material different than the first material, the insert attached to the extruded piece by the mouth portion, wherein the insert is configured for welding the profile piece to a component of a third material different than the first material.

Abstract: A bearing unit (2), designed for attachment on a shaft of a pump assembly, has an inner sleeve (6) for receiving the shaft and a bearing sleeve (4) fixed on the outer periphery of the inner sleeve (6). At a first axial end (7) the inner sleeve (6) includes an engagement element (8), designed for positive, rotationally fixed engagement with the shaft or with a component (42) connected to the shaft. At a second opposite axial end the inner sleeve (6) includes a second contact shoulder (10), which fixes the bearing sleeve (4) in an axial direction (X). A pump assembly having such a bearing unit is also provided.

Abstract: A cartridge microreactor includes a tubular heater, a metal capillary reaction tubing and a brazing alloy. The tubular heater includes an inner tube surrounded by an outer heater sheath. The metal capillary reaction tubing has a high aspect ratio, an inlet port and an outlet port and is wrapped around the tubular heater so that it is in intimate thermal contact with the heater sheath. The brazing alloy permanently bonds the tubular heater with the metal capillary reaction tubing. The metal capillary reaction tubing is configured to be heated by the tubular heater and is configured to receive one or more reactants through the inlet port and to allow the reactants to react under a selected temperature and pressure and to produce one or more products exiting through the outlet port.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for determining an alignment of a bondhead of a die bonder relative to a workchuck. Specifically, the apparatus comprises: i) a sensor configured to measure a distance between the bondhead and the sensor; and ii) a positioning device coupled to the sensor, the positioning device being configured to position the sensor relative to a plurality of locations on the bondhead facing the sensor. In particular, the sensor is operative to measure a set of distances between each of the plurality of locations on the bondhead and the sensor, the set of distances being for determining the alignment of the bondhead. A method of determining an alignment of a bondhead of a die bonder relative to a workchuck is also disclosed.

Abstract: There are provided a plate welding-type anchor channel that is buried when concrete is poured at the time of constructing a building to fix various external installations to a concrete structure later, and a method for the same. The anchor channel includes a stem plate (40) and an anchor head plate (50) that are coupled to be fixed, and can further improved anchorage performance as compared to the related art and to easily produce products of various standards. As a configuration of the plate welding-type anchor channel, a lower end (42) of the stem plate (40) of an anchor (30) is coupled to a top surface (24) of a channel (20) through welding to have a length (L1) in a direction perpendicular to the top surface (24) of the channel (20). Further, the anchor head plate (50) has a predetermined length (L2) and width (w2), and an upper end (44) of the stem plate (40) is coupled to a bottom surface (52) through welding to be perpendicular to a length (L1) direction of the stem plate (40).

Abstract: A decorative frame for a domestic appliance has an edge-side area and an inner area adjoining the edge-side area inwards. The edge-side area has a thicker section defined by a thickness which is greater than a thickness in the inner area. The thicker section in the edge-side area is realized by a separate material part which is attached to a base frame.

Abstract: A tool welding system is disclosed that includes a table that heats a tool. A multi-axis robot includes a welding head that is moved relative to the table in response to a command. A controller is in communication with the robot and generates the command in response to welding parameters. The weld parameters are based upon a difference between an initial tool shape and a desired tool shape. The difference between the initial tool shape and the desired tool shape corresponds to a desired weld shape. The desired weld shape is adjusted based upon initial tool shape variations, which includes thermal growth of the tool. The tool is welded to provide the desired weld shape to achieve a desired tool shape.

Abstract: Provided are a welding method and a weld joint with which the fatigue strength of the box-welded joint of a gusset plate and a high-tensile steel can be dramatically improved. A welding method whereby a gusset plate is welded to high-tensile steel by means of box-welding, with a bead having a length of 17 mm or greater being formed at the ends of the gusset plate in the lengthwise direction using a welding material for which the martensite transformation starting temperature of the weld metal is 350° C. or less. In addition, a weld joint formed by welding a gusset plate to high-tensile steel using the aforementioned method; a method for repairing or reinforcing a box-welded part.

Abstract: A welding method for an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint includes constructing a cup section having track grooves, which engage with torque transmitting elements, formed along an inner periphery thereof and a shaft section that is formed on a bottom portion of the cup section by two or more separate members, joining a cup member forming the cup section and a shaft member forming the shaft section, and melt-welding end portions of the cup member and the shaft member. The cup member and the shaft member are shaped so that a sealed hollow cavity portion is formed when the end portions of the cup member and the shaft member are brought into abutment against each other, the melt-welding of the end portions being performed when the sealed hollow cavity portion is under atmospheric pressure or lower.

Abstract: A downhole tool and method for manufacturing such downhole tool. The downhole tool includes a bit body having a blank and a matrix bonded to and surrounding the blank, a shank having a threaded connection at one end, and a butt joint formed within a gap formed between the blank and the shank and coupling the blank to the shank. The blank includes a first planar surface while the shank includes a second planar surface opposite the one end. The butt joint is formed between the first and second planar surfaces when positioned adjacent to one another, wherein the first planar surface is positioned external to the matrix.

Abstract: A hand-held device shaped as a pencil used for dispensing solder wire onto a soldering point. Such device contains a roll of solder wire that can be gradually extracted through a hole on the tip by pressing a button in forward motion to extract the solder without touching it. The device can be held in one hand and the dispensing of the solder wire is performed by an internal servo-mechanism that controls the amount of solder and the speed at which it is dispensed. The extracted solder can be pulled back into the device in order to retrieve small portions of the already extracted solder by pressing the same or a different button in backward motion in order to maintain a desired amount of solder outside the device. The device can be electrically powered by “AA” size batteries, or by an external power supply.

Abstract: Systems and method for controlling the flow and dissipation of thermal energy away from a weld between two components are provided. in one example embodiment, a structure may comprise a protrusion; a first component thermally coupled to the protrusion; a second component having a lower heat dissipation rate than the first component; a weld formed using a welding process to couple the protrusion to the second component, wherein the welding process generates thermal energy; and wherein the first component in combination with the protrusion dissipates the thermal energy from the welding process at about an equivalent rate as the second component.

Abstract: A steering shaft bearing unit for rotatably mounting a steering shaft of a steering column for a motor vehicle includes at least one circumferentially closed region for accommodating at least one bearing for rotatably mounting the steering shaft, and at least one securing region for securing the steering shaft bearing unit to a console part of the steering column. At least one through-hole, in particular two through-holes, for guiding a clamping bolt of the steering column therethrough is/are arranged in the securing region. The steering shaft bearing unit is formed by joining, preferably welding, together at least two, preferably exactly two half-shells, each of which includes at least one section of the securing region and at least one section of the at least one circumferentially closed region.

Abstract: A laser module includes: a bottom plate of a box; the frame member being fixed to the bottom plate; a pipe member including a hollow portion PH communicating with the through hole OP of a box, the pipe member being fixed to the outer wall of the frame member; an optical fiber held on the hollow portion PH of the pipe member; and a laser element accommodated in the internal space of the box, the optical axis of the laser element being aligned with the optical axis of the optical fiber. When the bottom plate is placed on a plane, the bottom face of the pipe member is on the same face as a bottom plate portion contacting the plane.

Abstract: A method to make a curved tubular element comprising obtaining a first external curved tubular component, and a second internal curved component made of a material with a greater resistance to wear than the first external curved tubular component, and having a cross section which covers a portion of the internal surface of the first external curved tubular component. The first external curved tubular component includes at least two parts. Each of the parts has a cross section which is a respective portion of the complete tubular section of the first external curved tubular component; to bring the at least two parts near each other along respective connection edges, disposing the second internal curved component internally in contact with at least one of the two parts; to weld the at least two parts to define the first external curved tubular component and to enclose therein the second internal curved component.

Abstract: A method of forming an electronic device, comprising providing a semiconductor substrate having a first contact and an undoped electroplated lead-free solder bump formed on the first contact. The method also comprises providing a device package substrate having a second contact and a doped lead-free solder layer on the second contact comprising a fourth row transition metal dopant. The method further comprises melting the solder bump and the solder layer while the solder layer and the solder bump are in contact, thereby forming a doped solder bump consisting essentially of Sn, one or both of Ag and Cu, and the fourth row transition metal dopant.

Abstract: A corner fitting includes a sleeve body having a hollow inner space and configured to coaxially fit over a pipe member of a predetermined size. An edge of the sleeve body at a second distal end has a corner cut portion, a protruding tab, and two recesses, the protruding tab being diametrically opposed to the corner cut portion in the radial direction of the sleeve body, and the recesses being diametrically opposed to each other in the radial direction of the sleeve body. The corner cut portion is configured and shaped such that the sleeve body fits together with an identical sleeve body on the pipe member of the predetermined size with the corner cut portions of the two sleeve bodies contacting each other and with the pipe being nested between the protruding tabs of the second distal ends of the two sleeve bodies.

Abstract: A conformal cooling method and mold includes a part producing mold having a fluid passage defined therein that includes a channel defined in a surface of the mold, a weld support received in the channel, and a bridge welded across the channel above the weld support for closing the channel and defining the fluid passage. To form the fluid passage, the weld support is installed in the channel defined in the mold surface and the bridge is welded across the channel above the weld support for closing the channel.

Abstract: In some examples, the disclosure relates to a medical device comprising a lead including an electrically conductive lead wire; and an electrode electrically coupled to the lead wire, the electrode including a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion defines an exposed outer surface of the electrode and is electrically coupled to the second portion along a first interface, wherein the second portion is electrically coupled to the lead wire along a second interface different from the first interface via welding to couple the lead wire to the electrode, wherein an electrical signal may be transferred between the lead wire and exposed outer surface of the first portion via the second portion, and wherein the first portion is formed from a first material having a first composition, and the second portion is formed from a second material having a second composition different from the first composition.

Abstract: A welding apparatus includes a first welding element, a second welding element and a support on which the first welding element and the second welding element are mounted and which is movable relative to the welding apparatus. The support is configured to move the first welding element and the second welding element respectively from a first start position to a first end position and from a second start position to a second end position as the support is moved such that welding points of the first welding element and the second welding element are altered. The first welding element and the second welding element are oriented to mirror one another at the first start position and at the second start position. The first welding element and the second welding element are oriented to mirror one another at the first end position and at the second end position.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a device and method for the treatment of, ocular hypertension, glaucoma, and increasing the amplitude of accommodation. In an illustrative embodiment, the device includes a self-expanding wire. Once the device is within the posterior chamber between the iris and anterior lens capsule, the wire expands to compress the ciliary muscle. When the device is in place the scleral spur is moved posteriorly resulting in traction on the trabecular meshwork, which causes a reduction in intraocular pressure for the treatment of patients with ocular hypertension and glaucoma. In addition, the compression of the ciliary muscle increases the force of contraction of the ciliary muscle, which increases the amplitude of accommodation in patients with deficient accommodative amplitude and presbyopia.

Abstract: A welded stent and stent delivery system, with a stent including a first strut having a first strut nickel titanium alloy layer and nickel titanium soluble core, the first strut nickel titanium alloy layer being disposed around the first strut nickel titanium soluble core; and a second strut having a second strut nickel titanium alloy layer and nickel titanium soluble core, the second strut nickel titanium alloy layer being disposed around the second strut nickel titanium soluble core, the second strut nickel titanium alloy layer being connected to the first strut nickel titanium alloy layer with a weld. The first and second strut nickel titanium alloy layers are made of a nickel titanium alloy, the first and second strut nickel titanium soluble cores are made of a nickel titanium soluble material, and the weld is made of an alloy of the nickel titanium alloy and the nickel titanium soluble material.

Abstract: A copper nanorod thermal interface material (TIM) is described. The copper nanorod TIM includes a plurality of copper nanorods having a first end thermally coupled with a first surface, and a second end extending toward a second surface. A plurality of copper nanorod branches are formed on the second end. The copper nanorod branches are metallurgically bonded to a second surface. The first surface may be the back side of a die. The second surface may be a heat spread or a second die. The TIM may include a matrix material surrounding the copper nanorods. In an embodiment, the copper nanorods are formed in clusters.

Abstract: A surgical device according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first laminated layer and a second laminated layer fused to the first laminated layer to construct a body portion. At least one of the first laminated layer and the second laminated layer is constructed of a plurality of laminae that are made from a porous material.

Abstract: Pushing a self-expanding stent from one of its ends, during release of the stent at a stenting site in a bodily lumen, by proximal withdrawal of a surrounding sheath, can impose unacceptably high stresses on parts of the strut network of the stent. For location of stents in a bodily lumen, it is customary to equip the end annulus of a stent with radiopaque markers. The present invention involves arranging the markers so that they share with non-marker portions of the end annulus the stresses imposed in the stent by the end pushing, whereby the high stresses are shared more equally by all the struts of the stent in the end annulus.

Abstract: A sample chamber array is provided. The sample chamber array may comprise at least one reservoir in fluid communication with at least one sample chamber, and a movable portion defining the sample chamber. The reservoir is fillable with a liquid biological sample. The movable portion may be movable with respect to the remainder of the sample chamber from a first position to a second position. In the first position the movable portion is concave and the sample chamber is without biological sample. In the second position the movable portion is convex and the sample chamber comprises biological sample. The movement of the movable portion to the second position causes a pressure drop to transport the biological sample into the sample chamber from the at least one reservoir. Methods for processing a biological sample and methods of making a sample chamber array are also provided.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a mask assembly for thin film deposition includes: positioning a division mask on a mask frame, wherein the division mask has a length in a first direction that is greater than a width in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and spot welding opposing ends of the division mask along the first direction to the mask frame, wherein the spot welding comprises: forming first welding points in a first zigzag pattern starting from a peripheral portion along the second direction of the division mask toward a central portion along the second direction of the division mask; and forming second welding points between the first welding points.

Abstract: A housing includes first and second housing elements, each of which is heat conductive. The housing elements are joined by a joining process in which a joining material is configured between the first and second housing elements and at least one of the housing elements is heated such that the joining material is conditioned for the joining of the housing elements. At least one of the housing elements has a localized reduction in the heat conductivity such that the dissipation of heat in the at least one housing element is reduced.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an optical module 1 includes: a cladding 12 of one end of the optical fiber is exposed; an arrangement process of arranging the optical fiber 10 such that at least a leading end of a portion on which the cladding 12 is exposed is positioned in a box portion through a pipe portion 35 in which one end is connected to the box portion 31 configured to accommodate an optical element and which extends to an outside of the box portion 31; and a soldering process of soldering an inner wall of the pipe portion 35 and the optical fiber 10 by heating at least a part of a lower region BAR interposed between a heat dissipation portion and the pipe portion 35 in a state where a part of a wall of the box portion 31, in which the optical element is accommodated, is heat-dissipated.

Abstract: A brazing process, a braze arrangement, and a brazed article are disclosed. The brazing process includes brazing an article with a braze arrangement. The braze arrangement includes a first braze material and a second braze material, the first braze material having a first melting point and the second braze material having a second melting point, the first melting point differing from the second melting point. The brazed article includes a treatment region, a first brazed material positioned within the treatment region, and a second brazed material positioned distal from the article in comparison to the first brazed material. The first brazed material is formed by the first braze material and the second brazed material is formed by the second braze material.

Abstract: A method for creating a tapered spiral welded conical structure where the overall shape of the cone is first graphically slit axially and unwrapped, and then a series of construction arcs and lines are created to form the edge lines of a strip that can then be wrapped (rolled) to form a tapered conical structure. The edges of the spirally wound strip can be welded together, and a very large conical structure can thus be achieved. Various construction options are presented from a constant width strip to strip made from straight segments. Equations are given for the formation of the strips to enable those skilled in the art of spiral welded tubing to practice the invention.

Abstract: High Impact Toughness Alloy The invention provides an alloy, preferably a lead-free solder alloy, comprising: from 35 to 59% wt Bi; from 0 to 0.0 wt % Ag; from 0 to 1.0% wt Au; from 0 to 1.0% wt Cr; from 0 to 2.0% wt In; from 0 to 1.0% wt P; from 0 to 1.0% wt Sb; from 0 to 1.0% wt Sc; from 0 to 1.0% wt Y; from 0 to 1.0% wt Zn; from 0 to 1.0% wt rare earth elements; one or more of: 10 from greater than 0 to 1.0% wt Al; from 0.01 to 1.0% wt Ce; from greater than 0 to 1.0% wt Co; from greater than 0 to 0.0% wt Cu; from 0.001 to 1.0% wt Ge; from greater than 0 to 0.0% wt Mg; from greater than 0 to 1.0% wt Mn; from 0.01 to 1.0% wt Ni; and from greater than 0 to 1.0% wt Ti, and the 1 balance Sn, together with any unavoidable impurities.

Abstract: A two-piece construction compaction cleat and method of manufacturing thereof is disclosed. The compactor includes a base member affixable to a compactor wheel and having a bottom portion and a center flange, with the center flange extending upwardly from the bottom portion to form an upper ridge and being generally aligned along a center line of the base member. The compactor cleat also includes a cap member secured to the base member and positioned thereover so as to cover at least a portion of the base member, with the cap member having an arrangement of openings configured to receive the center flange therein. The center flange of the base member and the arrangement of openings formed in the cap member are configured to provide for a size-on-size fit between the base member and the cap member, so as to secure the cap member to the base member.

Abstract: A connecting method of a single core electric wire to a stranded electric wire which can prevent a contact resistance from increasing is provided. The connecting method includes a tube inserting process that a single core wire and a twisted wire are respectively inserted from openings and of a tubular joint terminal having a single core wire inserting part from an end part to a prescribed position in an interior side and a twisted wire inserting part from the other end part to the single core wire inserting part in the interior side, and a metallic bond process that an end face contacts under pressure with an end face and the single core electric wire is rotated in a twisting direction of the twisted wire to metallically bond the end faces.

Abstract: A monobloc piston assembly for an internal combustion engine is provided. The piston assembly includes a piston body which extends along an axis and is formed of at least two pieces of material which are joined together at least one friction weld joint which extends continuously through an annular shape around the axis. One of the pieces has an upper surface with a combustion bowl having a rotationally asymmetrical shape around the axis formed therein. Another of the pieces has a dome-shaped receiving surface which is rotationally symmetrical around the axis for slidingly receiving a portion of a connecting rod.

Abstract: A metallized film-over-foam contact suitable for circuit grounding of surface mount technology devices generally includes a silicone foam resilient core member, a solderable electrically conductive layer, and an adhesive bonding the solderable electrically conductive layer to the resilient core member. The adhesive has no more than a maximum of 900 parts per million chlorine, no more than a maximum of 900 parts per million bromine, and no more than a maximum of 1,500 parts per million total halogens.

Abstract: A solder composition comprising a blend of a first powder component and a second powder component, wherein the first powder component is a first solder alloy and the second powder component is a second solder alloy or a metal.

Abstract: An electroconductive material that includes a metal component containing a first metal and a second metal having a higher melting point than the first metal, and has a configuration in which the first metal is Sn or an alloy containing Sn, and the second metal is a Cu—Cr alloy which forms, with the first metal, an intermetallic compound exhibiting a melting point of 310° C. or higher. The first metal can be Sn alone or an alloy containing Sn and at least one of Cu, Ni, Ag, Au, Sb, Zn, Bi, In, Ge, Al, Co, Mn, Fe, Cr, Mg, Pd, Si, Sr, Te, and P.

Abstract: The present invention provides a stabilized fine textured metal microstructure that constitutes a durable activated surface usable for bonding a 3D stacked chip. A fine-grain layer that resists self anneal enables metal to metal bonding at moderate time and temperature and wider process flexibility.

Abstract: There is provided a balance which includes a balance staff which is pivotally supported rotatably; and a balance wheel which is arranged around the balance staff and in which one end portion is a fixed end portion fixed to a connection arm which is radially connected to the balance staff and the other end portion is a free end portion which can be radially deformed. The balance wheel has a first rim which is connected to the connection arm and a second rim which is arranged to be overlapped with the first rim and formed of a material having a linear expansion coefficient different from the first rim, and the first rim and the second rim are bonded together by using a melting portion in which respective materials thereof are melted.

Abstract: An electroconductive material that includes a metal component containing a first metal and a second metal having a higher melting point than the first metal, and has a configuration in which the first metal is Sn or an alloy containing Sn, and the second metal is a Cu—Al alloy which forms, with the first metal, an intermetallic compound exhibiting a melting point of 310° C. or higher. The first metal can be Sn alone or an alloy containing Sn and at least one of Cu, Ni, Ag, Au, Sb, Zn, Bi, In, Ge, Al, Co, Mn, Fe, Cr, Mg, Pd, Si, Sr, Te, and P.

Abstract: Assuming that a direction in which a first member and a second member are arranged is a first direction and a direction orthogonal to the first direction is a second direction, a welding structure includes: a pressure fit portion; a first cavity; a second cavity; a first weld bead formed between the first cavity and an end of a joining part of the first member and the second member on one side in the second direction by welding the first member and second member while the second cavity is communicated with outside; a second weld bead formed between the second cavity and an end of the joining part on the other side in the second direction; and a cutout groove communicating between the first cavity and the second cavity.

Abstract: A motor vehicle body structure is provided. The motor vehicle body structure includes an outer side wall, a lateral floor reinforcement for absorbing forces in the event of an impact event, an inner side wall with a lateral sill region and a wheel housing region, which at least partially forms a wheel housing of the vehicle. A body reinforcement element is connected to the wheel housing region of the inner side wall and to the lateral floor reinforcement in a positively joined, non-positively joined and/or materially joined manner.

Abstract: A variable vane includes a variable vane body that has an airfoil portion. The variable vane body is formed of a first material. A trunnion is attached at one end of the variable vane body. The trunnion includes a pivot formed of a second, different material.

Abstract: A clad material for a cooler is provided by executing production of a tensile strain of 3 to 10% or rolling at a finish rolling ratio of 10 to 25%, and optionally performing a heat treatment for 1 to 8 hours at a temperature within a range from 150 to 400° C., on a clad raw material having a three layer structure of a core material, a first brazing filler metal layer that covers one side (the surface on the side of a cooling water passage) of this core material, and a second brazing filler metal layer that covers the other side (the surface on the opposite side from the cooling water passage). Specific ranges are prescribed for certain properties before and after brazing.

Abstract: A solder alloy includes Sn, optional Ag, Cu, and Al wherein the solder alloy composition together with the solder alloy superheat temperature and rapid cooling rate from the superheat temperature are controlled to provide a dispersion of fine hard Cu—Al intermetallic particles in an as-solidified solder alloy microstructure wherein the particles are retained even after multiple solder reflow cycles often used in modern electronic assembly procedures to provide a particle strengthening to the solder joint microstructure as well as exert a grain refining effect on the solder joint microstructure, providing a strong, impact- and thermal aging-resistant solder joint that has beneficial microstructural features and is substantially devoid of Ag3Sn blades.

Abstract: A standard memory chip (150) is vertically assembled with two processor chips (130, 140) of split architecture by means of a small silicon interposer (120) stacked onto a large silicon interposer (110); both interposers include through-silicon vias (TSVs), while the chips are free of TSVs. The TSVs of small interposer (120) connect to the memory chip (150) and to the bottom interposer (110). Symmetrically positioned relative to interposer (120), and connected to it by short signal traces, chips (130, 140) are attached to the TSVs of interposer 110, which in turn is attached to a substrate (160) with supply connections.

Abstract: An alternator has a pole segment with a collar, an axially outward surface, and at least one key extending radially outward from the collar along the surface. A fan has a keying slot extending radially outward from a center ring, and a fan body including protrusions. The fan is mounted to the segment whereby the collar fits inside the ring and the key fits inside the keying slot, and the fan is welded to the segment at the protrusions. A method includes securing a fan to a pole segment by mating a radially-extending key formed on the segment to a keying slot of the fan and by welding the fan to the segment.

Abstract: Vascular treatment and methods include a plurality of self-expanding bulbs and a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Joints between woven structures and hypotubes include solder. Woven structures include patterns of radiopaque filaments measurable under x-ray. Structures are heat treated to include at least shapes at different temperatures. A catheter includes a hypotube including interspersed patterns of longitudinally spaced rows of kerfs. Heat treating systems include a detachable flange. Laser cutting systems include a fluid flow system.

Abstract: A method includes preparing a bonding surface of a heat dissipating member, applying flux to the bonding surface of the heat dissipating member, and removing excess flux from the bonding surface so that minimal flux is provided. The method also includes preparing a die surface of an electronic device package, applying flux to the die surface, and removing excess flux from the die surface so that minimal flux is provided. The method further includes positioning a preform solder component on the die surface, positioning the heat dissipating member over the die surface and the preform solder component such that the flux layer of the bonding surface is in contact with the preform solder component, and reflowing the solder component using a reflow oven. A heat spreader is also described for use in the process.