Abstract: A method for managing error information of a printed circuit board layout system is provided. The system provides an error file recording names of all the errors to be displayed in wiring diagrams, generates wiring diagram files, outputs a first user interface showing one wiring diagram. Each of the wiring diagram files includes an attribute table for describing error information. The attribute table comprises the names and the set of coordinates. The method comprises obtaining the error file and the attribute table, outputting a second user interface comprising a first display area and a second display area, outputting the name in the first display area, analyzing the obtained attribute table to provide a classifying table. Then outputting one selected name and at least one set of coordinates corresponding to the one selected name in the second display area according to the classifying table. A related system is also provided.

Abstract: In one example embodiment, a printed circuit board positioning mechanism includes a solderable plate and a compressible structure attached to the solderable plate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a thin-film magnetic head includes a step of cutting a wafer into bars, each bar having a plurality of thin-film magnetic head sliders which are sequentially coupled with each other, a step of identifying the bar to be worked to generate an identification signal which indicates identity of the bar, a step of obtaining data of the bar in a unit of bar depending upon the identification signal, and a step of processing at least one working of the bar on the basis of the obtained data of the bar.

Abstract: A media handling system includes a data cartridge processor having an opening to receive a data cartridge. The data cartridge processor functions to read data from or record data to the data cartridge. The system also includes a gripper for inserting the data cartridge into the opening of the data cartridge processor and an actuator to effect movement of the gripper. A code symbol is affixed to the data cartridge processor and a code reader is associated with the gripper to read the code symbol for locating the opening of the data cartridge processor. The system optionally includes an alignment bracket affixed to the data cartridge processor. The alignment bracket includes a guide having a tapered surface extending outwardly from the opening in the data cartridge processor for further aligning of the data cartridge with the opening of the data cartridge processor.

Abstract: A TAB carrier for film-mounted integrated circuits comprises a body member having a rectangular cavity for receiving a TAB segment of a flexible film strip and a retainer member shaped and sized to fit conformably within the cavity, each integrally molded of a resilient polymeric material. A fully automated TAB framer includes a pair of vertically-oriented pneumatic rams having vacuum operated pick up heads on the lower ends thereof. A cutting assembly cuts TAB segments from the film strip. The rams are laterally shiftable between two positions for picking up TAB segments, placing a segment in a carrier body, picking up a retainer member and inserting the retainer member into the carrier body thereby forming a framed TAB segment.

Abstract: A fully automated TAB framer includes a pair of vertically-oriented pneumatic rams having vacuum operated pick up heads on the lower ends thereof. A cutting assembly cuts TAB segments from a roll of film having a number of such segments thereon. The rams are laterally shiftable between two positions for picking up TAB segments, placing a segment in a carrier body, picking up a retainer member and inserting the retainer member into the carrier body thereby forming a framed TAB segment.

Abstract: A wheel presetting apparatus has a pair of rotatable lower rollers and a pair of rotatable upper rollers mounted above the lower rollers and movable into contact with a wheel supported on the lower rollers. A center pin is supported for forward and backward movement in relation to a center hole of the wheel, and, a bolt hole detecting means is provided for detecting the angular position of a bolt hole of the wheel. A hub pin is supported for forward and backward movement, and is inserted into a bolt hole which is out of the phase of the bolt holes detected by the bolt hole detecting means.

Abstract: An assembly station is provided for use in the assembly of disk drive units of the type used in microcomputers, such as personal computers and the like. The assembly station comprises a main platform having a head fixture and a disk fixture for respectively receiving and supporting a head actuator subassembly and a disk subassembly of a disk drive unit. The disk fixture supports the disk subassembly for sliding displacement into precision registry with the actuator subassembly to accommodate facilitated mounting of a housing base onto the actuator and disk subassemblies. In the preferred form of the invention, the assembly station is further adapted to receive and support additional disk drive components for mounting within the housing base. The platform is adapted for inversion to expose these additional disk drive components through platform openings for relatively simple attachment to the housing base at predetermined positions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus which is intended to equip a support substrate with integrated circuit devices of different kinds mounted originally on films. The apparatus includes a machine having cutting heads each associated with the film, and soldering heads. The substrate is mounted on a plate which is movable on a table in a direction perpendicular to the movement of the table, which movement takes place on a threaded spindle drive by a motor. The operation of the machine is monitored and controlled by a unit such as a computer. The invention is applicable in particular to mounting such devices on substrates intended for data-processing assemblies.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus which is intended to equip a support substrate with integrated circuit devices of different kinds mounted originally on films. The apparatus includes a machine having cutting heads each associated with the film, and soldering heads. The substrate is mounted on a plate which is movable on a table in a direction perpendicular to the movement of the table, which movement takes place on a threaded spindle drive by a motor. The operation of the machine is monitored and controlled by a unit such as a computer. The invention is applicable in particular to mounting such devices on substrates intended for data-processing assemblies.

Abstract: Trailing wire ends of a cable supply on a pay-off reel initially are connected to respective matrix points of a controller in a preselected numerical order. The cable then is fed from the reel, and a leading end portion is desheathed, using heat. The desheathed portions of the cable wires then are pressed or "ironed" from a twisted-pair bundle configuration into an individual-wire common plane configuration. As the desheathed portions of the wires next are fanned out of the common plane configuration in random order, they are sorted into two groups, depending on the side of a connector plug on which they are to be located, in response to signals from the controller, which also identifies each wire and stores information as to its random numerical position in its respective group. The cable then is cut to length adjacent the supply reel and a new sequence of operations is initiated.