SN100C P520 D5 Pb-free solder paste is said to reduce shrinkage defects, slow intermetallic growth, and offer high-impact strength for 0402 components. Reportedly reflows with minute solder volumes, wets on all common substrates, exhibits minimal cracking of flux residue, and has good hot slump performance.
 
Nihon Superior Co. Ltd., www.nihonsuperior.co.jp
 

Extra Fine Solder Wire SN100C (030) reportedly provides sharp spreading and good separation. Is said to reduce bridging in soldering extra fine coaxial harnessing in cellphones. Has a diameter of 0.1 mm. Properties include inhibition of growth of intermetallic layer and low copper erosion.
 
Nihon Superior Co. Ltd., www.nihonsuperior.co.jp

 

Progressive Energy Dynamics fluid delivery technology comes on the MicroJet defluxer and is said to offer maximum impingement energy and fluid flow around and under SMT components. Independently targeted, precision flow jets impact all four sides of circuit card assemblies and SMT components as they travel through the wash. Can clean low standoff BGAs and microBGAs.

Aqueous Technologies Corp., www.aqueoustech.com

 

This line of air-cooled induction soldering systems has output power from 5W to 5kW. Applications include conductor to wafer, wire to connector, coax to connector and connector to PCB.
 
iTherm Technologies, http://www.itherm.com/solder.html
 

VectorGuard Platinum stencil platform is for wafer-level packaging, direct chip attach, flip chip and BGAs. Is said to be capable of aperture accuracies of  less than 3 μm, and positional tolerances of better than 20 μm at pitches down to 50 μm. Is frameless, and offers simple and automatic tensioning, independent of traditional pneumatic assistance processes.

DEK, www.dek.com

HV-KIT-ESD Handi-Vac Kit is static-dissipative and uses conductive silicone vacuum cups. Each kit comes with one 1/8" and one 1/4" vacuum cup on bent probes, as well as one 1/8" and one 3/8" vacuum cup on straight probes. Applications include SMT parts, metal parts, plastic parts or any item with a smooth, nonporous surface that the rubber vacuum tweezer tip can seal against. Can be used with any of the company’s rubber vacuum cups ranging in size from 3/32" to 3/4" in diameter.
 
Virtual Industries Inc., www.virtual-ii.com
 

This line of quick-mount LCD connector assemblies is installation-ready and includes an acrylic display bezel and mask, as well as an environmentally protective and shock-absorbent retainer that holds two conductive Zebra connectors. Reportedly provides a method for mounting LCDs to PC boards without the need for pins or soldering. Six size options are available to accommodate LCDs from 0.54" x 0.94" up to 1.50" x 2.75". Connectors consist of alternating parallel layers of conductive and nonconductive silicone rubber repeating on a 0.18 mm pitch; offer a nominal resistance of 1000Ω, operating temperature from -40° to 95°C, with a relative humidity range from zero to 100%.
 
Fujipoly America Corp., http://www.fujipoly.com
 

 

ACE Releases High-speed Inline Work Cell The ACE automated, high-speed in-line work cell runs higher volumes of products requiring secondary selective soldering. Designed for flexibility for high-mix environments, the configurable line reportedly offers a higher degree of productivity expected from an automated flowline. Consists of a loading station (assembly area); a Kiss 104F automated selective fluxing station (spray flux, drop-jet or dual); a KPHIL-2 inline top and bottom-side pre-heating station, and a Kiss-104 inline selective soldering station. Kiss 104 also features Automated Optical Alignment system, including a high-quality camera and machine vision system to align each assembly to be soldered using preprogrammed fiducial points on the board.

ACE Production Technologies, www.ace-protech.com

A series of new components include:

*Two new linear bushing designs – Pillow block-type linear bushings come with clamp levers (Part No: LHBBC16), and MX type self-lubricating linear bushings (Part No: LHBB-MX16).
*Magnetic Transmission Drive components, suited to applications in which the non-contacting components result in ultra-low dust generation. 
*Expanded line of LX Single-Axis Actuators with new features such as ballscrew lead options and low dust raise grease. Now come in 1000 possible configurations, up from 200 in the original series.

Most components are configurable, with downloadable CAD files.

Misumi USA, www.misumiusa.com.