EP1126976A1 - Method and machine for cleaning objects in plate form - Google Patents
Method and machine for cleaning objects in plate formInfo
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- EP1126976A1 EP1126976A1 EP99954065A EP99954065A EP1126976A1 EP 1126976 A1 EP1126976 A1 EP 1126976A1 EP 99954065 A EP99954065 A EP 99954065A EP 99954065 A EP99954065 A EP 99954065A EP 1126976 A1 EP1126976 A1 EP 1126976A1
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a method and a machine for cleaning objects in the general form of plates such as screens or screen stencils, in particular the screen stencils used in the manufacture of electronic circuits for depositing glues and solder creams. , and more particularly the stencils for frames, called self-tensioning, which are simple thin, flexible and fragile sheets of metal.
- the cleaning of such parts is done in practice most often manually using solvents on a cloth for glue, or using machines (DE-A-4,010,679) spraying under pressure on the parts, either aqueous solutions with saponifiers, or solvents (with all the technical constraints imposed by the use of products with a flash point).
- High-performance technical cleaning compositions are thus known, such as VIGON® SC 200 sold by the company Dr. OK WACK intended for cleaning by spraying screen printing screens, which has the advantage of eliminating at room temperature the adhesives used for mount the components on the surface (CMS) and the soldering creams, and is not flammable.
- This alkoxy propanol-based composition in solution in water forms a microphase at a temperature between 20 and 30 ° C. It is recommended by the manufacturer, after application of the fluid by spraying on the objects to be cleaned, to carry out rinse with water. With these compositions, it can be seen that the duration of the spraying treatment of each piece is generally greater than 1 hour, including drying.
- this device does not make it possible to separate the residues originating from successive or alternative treatments of parts soiled with soldering cream (light and heavy residues), then of parts soiled with glue (medium density residue). It should be noted in particular that this document does not in particular allow the separation of low density residues from other residues, in particular medium density residues in suspension. This separation is indeed the most difficult to achieve but is important, in particular insofar as the low density residues such as fluxes or greases have a chemical composition very different from the medium density residues such as epoxy adhesives, and therefore require different subsequent treatments.
- this device comprising no heating means does not allow the use of a liquid capable of forming a microphase. It therefore works either with a solvent or with a surfactant. Consequently, in such a device, the cleaning liquid dissolves the residues, and must therefore be regularly renewed, which is costly and harmful to the environment.
- the invention therefore aims to overcome these drawbacks by proposing a method and a machine for cleaning objects in the general form of plates, such as screen printing stencils, which can be soiled with residues of medium density - in particular density of the order of 1 -, and / or solid residues of high density - in particular of density greater than 1 - and / or of residues of low density - in particular less than 1 - and this under economic conditions compatible with industrial exploitation, and allowing at least the separation of low density residues.
- the invention aims to allow the automatic separation of residues according to their density, after successive or alternative treatments of several different parts soiled indifferently with residues of any density.
- the invention aims to allow the treatment alternately of parts soiled with low density residues and high density residues, such as screen printing stencils soiled with brazing cream (comprising low density fluxes and particles of high density metal alloys), and parts soiled with medium density residues such as screen stencils soiled with glue (medium density residue), and the separation of these different residues according to their density at each treatment, without maintenance intervention between two separate piece treatments.
- the invention thus aims to allow the successive or alternative treatment in series of parts soiled with different residues (regardless of low, high or medium density), without waiting time between parts.
- the invention aims in particular to make it possible to avoid having to carry out subsequent distinct steps of rinsing and separation of the residues, and the permanent renewal of the cleaning composition used.
- the invention also aims to propose a process and a machine inexpensive to invest, simple and economical to use and providing high cleaning efficiency.
- the invention aims in particular to allow a complete treatment (cleaning and drying) with a duration of less than 1 h - in particular of the order of 0.5 h - per object.
- the invention aims to allow the cleaning of objects of all kinds, including fragile objects, such as stencils for self-tensioning frames, soiled with various very resistant residues and adhering to the object such as metal particles (welding alloys ), solder fluxes, greases, glues (epoxy glues, adhesives for CMS, ).
- the invention relates to a method of cleaning objects in the general form of plates, such as screen stencils, which may be soiled with medium density residues such as glue particles, and / or residues high density solids such as metallic particles, and / or low density residues such as brazing fluxes or greases, in which at least one object to be cleaned is immersed in a tank, known as a treatment tank filled with a composition liquid cleaning, at least one of the vertical walls of the treatment tank, called the overflow wall, being adapted to form an overflow tank in a second adjacent tank, called the overflow tank, the overflow wall being common to the tanks treatment and overflow, at least one flow Ql of cleaning composition is continuously extracted from the treatment tank, which is continuously reintroduced into the treatment tank after s passage through residue filtering means, and a flow Q2 of cleaning composition is continuously extracted from the overflow tank which is continuously reintroduced into the treatment tank after passage through residue filtering means, characterized in that: a cleaning composition formed from an a
- At least one object is placed vertically in a treatment tank adapted to present at least substantially vertical walls, called longitudinal vertical walls, spaced apart by a distance of less than 10 cm main faces, arranged at least substantially vertically, called vertical faces, of an object to be cleaned.
- the cleaning composition is continuously extracted from the lower part of the treatment tank and the cleaning composition is continuously extracted from the overflow tank, and the top part of the treatment tank is continuously replenished after passing through said tanks.
- filtering means all of the cleaning composition extracted from the two tanks, the object being immersed in the cleaning composition which circulates continuously in the treatment tank along the object and from top to bottom with a flow rate Ql suitable for:
- a method according to the invention is advantageously applicable to the cleaning of objects in the form of at least generally flat plates, the treatment tank being parallelepiped. The invention is nonetheless equally applicable for objects in the form of plates which are not strictly flat (corrugated, cylindrical or semi-cylindrical, etc.).
- the shape of the walls of the treatment tank is adapted to that of the objects to be cleaned, so as to present longitudinal vertical walls of shapes at least substantially conjugate with those of the main vertical faces of the objects.
- the objects have main faces in the form of a regulated surface (plane, cylinder or portion of cylinder with a circular base or whatever), and the vertical walls of the treatment tank have a similar shape.
- the cleaning composition being an azeotrope, it is removed from the object by simple evaporation (by natural convection or drying with hot air) without leaving a trace. Its density corresponding to that of medium density residues, it carries these residues in its movement. The high density residues flow to the bottom of the treatment tank and are entrained with the cleaning composition extracted at the bottom of the treatment tank.
- the cleaning composition is adapted so as not to dissolve the residues, and therefore does not become loaded with residues.
- a cleaning composition formed from an aqueous solution is used which has the effect of dissociating the residues from the object without dissolving them.
- the cleaning composition is a non-flammable solution.
- the medium density residues are glues with a density close to 1
- the low density residues are fluxes of solder paste or greases
- the high density residues are particles of metal alloys solder or solder or those of conductive adhesives.
- a cleaning composition is used whose density is of the order of 1.
- a cleaning composition which is formed from an aqueous solution of at least one component forming a microphase - in particular at least one alkoxy alcohol - at a temperature below 50 ° C., and the composition is maintained. cleaning at a treatment temperature suitable for allowing the formation of the microphase, in particular less than 50 ° C.
- a treatment temperature suitable for allowing the formation of the microphase, in particular less than 50 ° C.
- a saturated aqueous solution of at least one cleaning agent is used as described in US-5,486,314.
- the cleaning composition can be used at low temperature (below 50 ° C - in particular between 20 ° C and 30 ° C -), any phenomenon of polymerization, crosslinking or hardening triggered by heating of the residues is avoided, which facilitates cleaning .
- N1GON® SC 200 sold by the company Dr. O.K. Wack Chemie GmbH (Ingolstadt, GERMANY), the exact chemical composition of which is not known, is used as cleaning composition.
- the density of this cleaning composition is equal to 1.
- this composition is very effective when used in the form of a bath. is to say even in the absence of mechanical energy supply by spraying. It forms a microphase between 20 ° C and 30 ° - C.
- the cleaning composition is replenished by spraying onto the free surface of the cleaning composition contained in the treatment tank, from at least one spraying ramp, disposed at a height greater than that of the overflow wall.
- the cleaning composition is spread over all of said free surface.
- two spraying ramps are used which are parallel to each other, the jets formed by a ramp intersecting those of the other ramp immediately above or at the level of said free surface so as to forming a curtain of cleaning composition having the effect of rinsing an object being extracted from the treatment tank.
- the flow rate Ql of cleaning composition extracted from the treatment tank is adapted so that the residence time in the treatment tank is between 30 s and 5 min - especially of the order of 2 to 4 min.
- This flow rate Q1 is adapted to allow entrainment of medium and / or high density residues by the cleaning composition, but also the counter-current flotation of low density residues and their separation by filtering in specific filtering means, and so that the cleaning composition can produce its effects on the residues.
- the value of this flow rate Q1 can be adjusted empirically by tests according to the nature of the residues, the shape of the object and of the treatment tank.
- a treatment tank which is suitable for presenting longitudinal vertical walls spaced from the main vertical faces of the object by a distance of between 1 and 5 cm - in particular of the order of 2 to 3 cm. -.
- the distance between the vertical walls of the treatment tank and the faces of the object is as small as possible, so as to achieve as much as possible in the treatment tank a slow uniform flow and free of turbulence of the cleaning composition, and to minimize the volume of cleaning composition used in the machine.
- ultrasound is emitted in the treatment tank in a direction at least substantially perpendicular to the main plane of an object in place in the treatment tank.
- This ultrasound in particular facilitates the action of the cleaning composition in the interstices or the microperforations of the object.
- the invention extends to a machine for implementing a method according to the invention.
- the invention thus relates to a machine for cleaning objects generally in the form of plates, such as screen printing stencils, capable of being soiled with medium density residues such as glue particles, and / or solid residues with density high such as metal particles, and / or low density residues such as stirring fluxes or greases, comprising a tank, called treatment tank, adapted to be able to contain a liquid cleaning composition, and at least one object to be cleaned immersed in this cleaning composition, at least one of the vertical walls of the treatment tank, called the overflow wall being adapted to form an overflow tank in a second adjacent tank, called the overflow tank, the overflow wall being common to the treatment and overflow tanks, means, known as the first circulation means, for continuously extracting at least one flow rate Ql of cleaning composition cleaning the treatment tank and reintroducing it continuously into the treatment tank after passage through means for filtering residues, and means, known as second circulation means, for continuously extracting a flow rate Q2 of composition for cleaning the tank overflow, and reintroduce it continuously into the treatment tank
- the treatment tank is adapted to receive at least one object to be cleaned in a vertical position, and to present at least substantially vertical walls, called longitudinal vertical walls, spaced at a distance of less than 10 cm from the main faces, arranged at least substantially vertically, called vertical faces, of an object to be cleaned,
- the first circulation means are suitable for continuously extracting the cleaning composition in the lower part of the treatment tank and for continuously replenishing it in the upper part of the treatment tank
- the second circulation means are adapted to replenish the cleaning composition extracted from the overflow tank in the upper part of the treatment tank
- the first circulation means are suitable for maintaining, within the treatment tank and along the object, a flow rate Ql of cleaning composition flowing from top to bottom and suitable for:
- the cleaning composition being formed from an azeotropic liquid solution with a density at least substantially equal to the density of medium density residues, and which is adapted to separate the residues from the object without dissolving them, in a single continuous step, the residues from the object are dissociated, at least the low density residues are separated, and the residues are removed from the cleaning composition which is not loaded with residue.
- the machine according to the invention comprises at least one spraying boom for the cleaning composition on the free surface of the cleaning composition contained in the treatment tank, this spraying ramp being disposed at a height greater than that of the overflow wall.
- this spraying ramp comprises two spraying ramps parallel to one another, the jets formed by a ramp intersecting those of the other ramp immediately above or at the level of said free surface so as to forming a curtain of cleaning composition having the effect of rinsing an object being extracted from the treatment tank.
- the spraying ramps are arranged at least substantially above and vertically above the upper extreme edges of two longitudinal vertical walls of the treatment tank, at least one of which forms the overflow wall .
- a first ramp sprinkler belongs to the first means of circulation and a second spray boom belongs to the second means of circulation.
- the overflow wall is formed from one of the longitudinal vertical walls of the treatment tank, the upper end edge of which is at a height less than that of the upper end edges of the other vertical walls of the treatment tank. treatment.
- the treatment tank is adapted to present longitudinal vertical walls spaced from the main vertical faces of the object by a distance of between 1 and 5 cm - in particular of the order of 2 to 4 cm - .
- the machine comprises means for emitting ultrasound associated with at least one of the longitudinal vertical walls of the treatment tank so as to emit ultrasound in the treatment tank in at least one direction. substantially perpendicular to a main plane of an object in place in the treatment tank.
- the first and / or second circulation means comprise thermostated heating means of the cleaning composition disposed downstream of the residue filtering means, and upstream of means for reintroducing the cleaning composition in the upper part of the treatment tank.
- the first circulation means comprise a filter, called the first filter, and a pump, called the first pump
- the second circulation means have a filter, called the second filter, and a pump, called the second pump.
- the first and second filters are similar, and the first and second pumps are similar.
- the first circulation means may comprise a single outlet for cleaning composition at the bottom of the treatment tank, and a single filter capable of filtering medium density residues and retaining high density residues, while separating them, in particular by decantation.
- this filter can be formed from a reservoir containing a cylindrical filter cartridge radially traversed by the liquid to be filtered. This variant is advantageously applicable when successively or alternately, indifferently, treating parts, such as stencils, soiled with soldering creams and then parts soiled with glue.
- the same filter retains at the bottom of the tank the high density residues (particles) which it receives when the treated part is soiled with brazing cream (these residues falling at the bottom of the tank under the effect of gravity), then retains in its cartridge the medium density residues it receives when the treated part is soiled with glue (the residues being suspended in the liquid).
- the small volume of cleaning composition makes it possible to successively or alternately treat parts soiled with different residues, with a short waiting time between each part.
- two separate outlet orifices can be provided, one of which at the bottom of the treatment tank supplies a filter capable of filtering high density residues, while another, located at a higher level (above the bottom of the treatment tank but nevertheless in the lower part of the treatment tank), feeds another filter capable of filtering residues of medium density.
- the low density residues are separated in a specific filter distinct from the second circulation means.
- the treatment tank is of rectangular shape, of width between 3 cm and 10 cm - in particular of the order of 5 cm or 6 cm -, and has a volume between 10 t to £ 100 - in particular of the order of £ 50 -.
- the height of the treatment tank is at least equal to that of the objects to be cleaned.
- the machine comprises a frame for suspending an object in the form of a flexible plate in the treatment tank, this suspension frame being adapted to receive and hold the peripheral edges of the object.
- the invention also relates to a method and a machine characterized in combination by all or some of the characteristics mentioned above or below.
- FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the general principle of a method and a machine according to the invention
- FIGS. 2 and 3 are schematic views from above and, respectively, from the front of a machine according to the invention, the outer casing of which is not shown, so as to allow the visualization of its main constituent elements,
- FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view of a suspension frame of an object in the form of a flexible plate to be placed in the treatment tank of a machine according to the invention.
- the machine according to the invention comprises a treatment tank 1 adapted to be able to contain a liquid cleaning composition and at least one object to be cleaned 2 in the general form of a plate such as a screen printing stencil immersed in this cleaning composition.
- This treatment tank 1 is formed from metal walls of stainless steel and is generally parallelepiped. It comprises an external longitudinal vertical wall 3, a lower horizontal bottom 4, a longitudinal vertical wall 5, called overflow wall 5, the upper extreme edge 6 of which is at a height less than that of the upper extreme edge 7 of the longitudinal vertical wall external 3, so that the liquid cleaning composition contained in the treatment tank 1 overflows above this upper extreme edge 6 to flow in an overflow tank 8 adjacent to the treatment tank 1, the overflow wall 5 being a longitudinal vertical wall common to the treatment tank 1 and to the overflow tank 8.
- the overflow wall 5 is parallel and opposite the external longitudinal vertical wall 3.
- the overflow tank 1 is parallel and opposite the external longitudinal vertical wall 3.
- the overflow tank 1 is parallel and opposite the external longitudinal vertical wall 3.
- the overflow tank 1 is parallel and opposite the external
- the overflow tank 8 is delimited by an external longitudinal vertical wall 9 which, preferably, has an upper end edge 10 at a level at least substantially identical to that of the upper end edge 7 of the external longitudinal vertical wall 3 of the treatment tank 1.
- the two tanks 1, 8 are closed on the side by lateral vertical walls 11, 12.
- the two tanks 1, 8 are open upwards.
- the bottom 13 of the overflow tank 8 is at a height greater than that 4 of the treatment tank 1.
- the external longitudinal vertical wall 9 of the overflow tank 8 is provided with a level sensor 14 which makes it possible to interrupt the operation of the machine if the level of liquid composition in the overflow tank 8 becomes lower than the value predetermined by this sensor 14.
- the external longitudinal vertical wall 3 of the treatment tank 1 is provided with transducers 15, ultrasonic emitters, regularly distributed over the surface of this wall 3.
- the ultrasonic emitters 15 are supplied by a generator 16 controlled by electronic control 17 of operation of the machine according to the invention.
- This electronic control unit 17 incorporates in particular a timer for the operation of the ultrasound emitting transducers 15.
- the object 2 to be cleaned is positioned in part at least substantially middle of the treatment tank 1, with midway between the external longitudinal vertical wall 3 and the overflow wall 5, so that a flow of cleaning composition flows vertically from top to bottom along each of the vertical faces 18, 19 of the object 2.
- the object 2 is placed in the treatment tank 1 so as not to come into contact with the bottom 4. To do this, it is suspended in the treatment tank 1 by any suitable suspension device, for example one or more suspension hooks coming to cooperate with the upper end edges 6, 7 of the longitudinal vertical walls 3, 5 and / or of the vertical side walls 11, 12.
- the upper end edges 20, 21 of the lateral vertical walls 11, 12 are preferably at the same level as the upper end edges 7, 10 of the external longitudinal vertical walls 3, 9 of the tanks 1, 8.
- FIG. 4 represents an accessory making it possible to suspend in the treatment tank 1 an object in the form of a flexible thin metal plate, such as a screen printing stencil for a self-tensioning frame.
- This accessory is formed by a frame 22 comprising two vertical uprights in the form of a slide 23 adapted to receive the vertical peripheral edges 24 of the object 2.
- the two uprights 23 are connected in the upper part by an upper crosspiece 25 welded to these uprights. 23, and the ends of which project laterally from the upright 23 to form suspension lugs 26 capable of resting on crosspieces of the treatment tank 1 or on the upper end edges 20, 21 of its vertical side walls 1, 12.
- Two parallel crosspieces 25, one on each side may be provided in a variant not shown.
- a cross member 27 also connects the lower ends of the uprights 23.
- the lower ends of these uprights 23 can be closed and welded so as to prevent the sliding of the object 2 beyond these ends.
- Two crosspieces 27 can be provided, in a variant not shown, one on each side. It is also possible to weld the ends of the crosspiece 27 inside the lower end of each upright 23 in the form of a slide to close the lower end.
- the cleaning composition is extracted at the bottom of the treatment tanks 1 and overflow 8, filtered, and replenished at the top of the treatment tank 1.
- the treatment tank 1 comprises an outlet orifice 28 for the cleaning composition formed at the bottom 4 of the treatment tank 1, or even through this bottom 4, and through which the cleaning composition is extracted.
- This orifice 28 is connected via a valve 29 to a conduit on which is interposed a filter 31, then a pump 32 which feeds the cleaning composition into a heater 33.
- the conduit 30 feeds a spraying boom 34 disposed above the upper extreme edge 7 of the external longitudinal vertical wall 3 of the treatment tank 1.
- the filter 31 is adapted to retain both medium and high density residues , extracted at the bottom of the treatment tank 1 with the cleaning composition.
- This filter 31 is for example formed by a cylindrical settling tank containing a hollow cylindrical filter cartridge crossed radially by the composition to be filtered, in a manner known per se.
- the pump 32 is an electric pump which is chosen to provide a nominal flow rate such that the flow rate Ql of cleaning composition extracted from the treatment tank 1 corresponds to a residence time in the treatment tank 1 of between 30 seconds and 5 min - in particular of the order of 2 to 4 min -, and this taking into account the pressure losses of the circuit.
- a pump 32 with a nominal flow rate of the order of 20 ⁇ / min allows a residence time of the order of 2 to 4 min of the composition of cleaning in the treatment tank 1.
- the heater 33 can be formed of a hollow cylinder partitioned so as to form baffles and surrounded by an electrical resistance, the whole being padded.
- the control electronics 17 are adapted to control the operation of the electric pump 32 and of the heater 33.
- First means 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 are thus produced for circulating the cleaning composition within the treatment tank 1.
- an outlet orifice 35 is provided at the bottom of the overflow tank 8.
- This outlet orifice 35 is connected to a conduit 36 by means of a valve 37.
- a filter 38, and an electric pump 39 which feeds the cleaning composition into the heater 33, then into a second spraying boom 40 disposed above the extreme vertical edge 6 of the overflow wall 5.
- the assembly 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 33, 40 forms second means for circulating the cleaning composition making it possible to continuously extract a flow rate Q2 of cleaning composition from the overflow tank 8 and to reintroduce it continuously into the treatment tank 1 after passing through the filter 38, which is adapted to retain the low density residues.
- the two spray booms 34, 40 are parallel to each other and are provided with nozzles (FIG. 2) regularly distributed over their entire length and oriented downwards and inclined approximately 45 ° relative to the horizontal ( FIG. 1) towards the inside of the treatment tank 1.
- Each nozzle of a ramp 34, 40 preferably forms a flared diverging jet extending at least substantially in a plane inclined downwards for example at about 45 °, towards the inside of the treatment tank 1, and towards the jets coming from the nozzles of the other ramp 40, 34. In this way, the different jets coming from the different nozzles of the same ramp 34 or 40 intersect before to contact the upper free surface 41 of the bath of cleaning composition contained in the treatment tank 1.
- the jets coming from the two ramps 34, 40 intersect at a level situated above the upper free surface 41.
- the cleaning composition is diffused over t all the upper free surface 41 of the cleaning composition bath, in a homogeneous manner.
- the jets of cleaning composition coming from the two ramps 34, 40 form a curtain crossed by the object 2 which is thus automatically rinsed on both sides when it is extracted from the treatment tank 1.
- the spray bars 34, 40 do not directly spray the object 2 to be cleaned, but only the free surface 41 of the bath of cleaning composition in which the object 2 is immersed.
- the two pumps 32, 39 are similar, so that the flow rates Ql extracted from the treatment tank 1 and Q2 extracted from the overflow tank 8 are similar.
- the treatment tank 1 is filled with cleaning composition until it overflows, through the overflow wall 5, into the overflow tank 8 into which a sufficient quantity of cleaning composition so that the level of cleaning composition in this overflow tank 8 is located above the sensor 14 and the valves 29, 37 are opened.
- the machine is then started by triggering the control electronics 17 thanks to an external control button provided for this purpose.
- the control electronics 17 controls the operation of the heater 33, the ultrasound generator 16, and the pumps 32, 39.
- a third circulation circuit withdrawing the cleaning composition either at mid-height or slightly above the bottom 4 of the treatment tank 1, but at a level corresponding at least substantially at the lower part of the object 2 placed in the treatment tank 1.
- a specific filter is then provided which can be supplied with the same electric pump 32, or by a third pump leading to the heater 33 and to the rail 34.
- the machine according to the invention can be produced in a particularly compact and inexpensive form.
- the control electronics 17 can incorporate a timer and / or a thermostat for operating the heater 33.
- a machine according to the invention has been produced in accordance with the embodiment shown in the figures having a width of 60 mm between the vertical longitudinal walls 3.5 of the treatment tank 1, a height and a length of the order of 85 cm.
- This treatment tank 1 can receive a screen printing stencil in the form of a 29-inch square plate.
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