• Highly efficient miniature component handling
• Proven technology
• High throughput
  Up to 7370 parts per plate
• Consistent termination quality
• Handles wide variety of chip sizes
  From 0201 to 5750 (Metric: 0503 to 145127)

Highly efficient method of capturing and orienting small ship components to prepare them for the termination and drying stages of chip production. The silicon rubber plates provide high-density loading of parts for very high volume chip-processing operation.

Carrier plates are available in a vanity of hole patterns and hole sizes that are matched to the chip dimensions.

Epically, the plates are custom fit to each chip size to provide a secure holding force on the loaded chips. Tight termination end width and registration control and superior cosmetic appear-ance of the parts can be attributed to the uniform positioning of the chips in the pastes.

The plates can carry as many as 7370 parts and can accommodate miniature parts. such as 0201 (0503 metric), in special small round hole patterns. High-volume handling of standard part sizes (such as 0603. 0805. etc.) is accomplished with various round hole patterns.

The plates are made of aluminum and silicon rubber. Our extensive experience and research with various silicon rubber hybrids have resulted in the ability useful life of over 3000 termination and drying cycles. This is equivalent to over million terminated chips for a plate with a 7370 hole pattem.

The rubber composition can withstand 200^oC(392^oF)during the oven-drying cycle. Optimum life and wear reduction are achieved when using an actual temperature range of 150^oC-165^oC ( 302^oF - 329^oF), measured at the plate surface

Maintenance of the plates is minimal, with cleanliness being the primary concern.

Our carrier plates have been used successfully to handle a wide variety of chip components, such as the following:

• Multiplayer ceramic capacitors

• Chip array devices

• Surface-mount chip thermistors

• Multiplayer chip varistors

• Multiplayer chip inductors

• M.E.L.F.'s

• Tubular ceramic fuses

• Chip resistors (5-side termination)

• Piezoelectric actuators

• Ceramic spacers and grommets

• Piezoelectric transducers