EP2130419A1

EP2130419A1 - Method for fitting an electrical component to a contacting element and contacting element with an electrical component

Info

Publication number: EP2130419A1
Application number: EP08708260A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Norbert Knab; Georg Schulze-Icking-Konert; Thomas Mohr; Stefan Kotthaus; Nikolas Haberl; Stefan Stampfer; Michael Mueller
Original assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
Current assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
Priority date: 2007-03-26
Filing date: 2008-01-28
Publication date: 2009-12-09
Also published as: JP4848045B2; JP2010522439A; WO2008116677A1; CN101642004A; CN101642004B; US20100084166A1; DE102007014337B4; DE102007014337A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for equipping a contacting element (1), in particular a punched grid with an SMD component (4), comprising the following steps: providing the contacting element (1) with a casing, a connector point (3) being provided in a recess (7) of the casing (5); placing the SMD component (4) on the connector point (3); and heating a thermally conductive element in order to heat the connector point (3) so that the SMD component (4) can be connected to the connector point (4).

Description

Method for equipping a contacting element with an electrical component and a contacting element with an electrical component

The invention relates to a method for equipping contacting elements with electrical components as well as contacting elements with applied electrical components.

Contacting elements, such as in particular stamped grid or printed circuit boards, are generally used to provide electrical leads in a module available. The stamped grids comprise conductor structures with conductor tracks, which are encapsulated with a plastic material in order to ensure dimensional stability. Depending on the field of application, it may be necessary to provide the stamped grid with electrical components, which must be connected thereto, for example, by soldering to the conductor tracks. In such punched screens, although the partial soldering of wired components or circuit boards is possible, but not the soldering of SMD components (SMD: Surface Mounted Device) on the stamped grid. The reason for this is that, for example, the temperature resistance of the plastic used for the encapsulation of the stamped grid is not sufficient to carry out the usually by planar heating (eg in a reflow oven) held soldering of the SMD components on the stamped grid. Soldering of the SMD components before encapsulation of the stamped grid with the plastic is also a possible alternative because the temperature of the plastic sprayed around the leadframe is usually greater than the melting temperature of the solder used to solder SMD devices to the leadframe. In addition, due to the high injection pressure and the high viscosity of the liquid plastic or possibly due to the high temperature of the liquid plastic, mechanical deformation of the stamped grid (contacting element) occurs in the injection process, leading to destruction or disruption of already existing solder joints between stamped grid and Can lead SMD components.

It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a method for producing a contacting element equipped with electrical components, which makes it possible to assemble a contact already made with a plastic material and the like. overmolded contacting element with SMD components allowed. Furthermore, the method should avoid mechanical stresses that act on the SMD components, in particular their contacting. Furthermore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a contacting element which is equipped with SMD components available.

This object is achieved by the method according to claim 1 and by the contacting element according to the independent claim.

Further advantageous embodiments of the invention are specified in the dependent claims.

According to one aspect, a method for equipping a contacting element, in particular a stamped grid, with an SMD component is provided. The method comprises the Steps of providing the Kontaktierungselementes with a sheath, in which a connection point is provided in a recess of the sheath; the placement of the SMD component on the connection point; and locally heating a heat conduction member to heat the pad so that the SMD component is connected to the pad.

The method has the advantage that electrical components can be applied to a stamped grid, although this is already provided with a non-heat-resistant sheath. By locally heating a heat conducting element of the stamped grid, the heat can be brought directly to the connection point, so that the sheath is not affected directly by the heating.

Furthermore, a solder material is provided before heating between the connection point and the SMD component.

The local heating may be performed by immersing the heat conduction member in a solder bath, by induction, by resistance heating, by applying hot air, by heat conduction with the aid of an applied punch or by applying a laser.

Alternatively, a protective plate may be placed on the contacting element before heating so that the heat-conducting element extends through an opening in the protective plate, and the contacting element provided with the protective plate is introduced into a reflow oven.

Furthermore, the connection point can be provided on a contact web in the recess of the casing, wherein the Er- is carried out the heating of the heat conducting only a maximum of a period of time until the contact bar has reached a limit temperature of the material of the casing at the edge of the recess.

According to a further aspect, a contacting element, in particular a stamped grid, is provided for applying an SMD component. The contacting element comprises a line structure; a casing which at least partially surrounds the pipe structure; a recess in the shroud to provide an unclad conductor area of the line structure with a connection point; and a heat conduction member formed on the conductor portion to supply heat to the terminal.

Furthermore, the heat-conducting element can be formed projecting from the conductor region and be provided as an integral part of the conductor region.

According to one embodiment, the heat-conducting element is arranged on the conductor region such that there is better heat conduction to the connection point than to the position of the conductor region at the edge of the recess.

A heat dissipation device may be provided on the conductor region and / or a heat dissipating structuring of the conductor region between the point of the conductor region at the edge of the recess and the point at which the heat conduction element and the conductor region are in contact with one another. Preferred embodiments of the invention are explained below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Show it :

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a stamped grid, which is equipped with an SMD component;

2 shows a process status during the application of the SMD component to the stamped grid according to a first embodiment; 3 shows a process state of the application of the SMD component according to a further embodiment of the invention;

4 is a plan view of a stamped grid, which is equipped with an SMD component, according to another embodiment of the invention. and FIG. 5 shows a stamped grid, which is equipped with an SMD component and which is provided with a protective plate, according to a further embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 1 shows a section of a stamped grid 1, which has two contact webs 2, which have a connection point 3 at their respective ends. The connection points 3 are used to apply an SMD component 4 and to contact there, so that it is electrically connected via the contact webs 2.

The stamped grid 1 is provided with a sheath 5 made of a plastic material, which is recessed in the region of the contact bridges and the SMD component 4 in order to enable the application of the SMD component 4. The plastic material serves to protect printed conductors of the stamped grid 1 against unintentional contact and also provides corrosion protection for the printed conductors. Instead of the plastic material, another for the Verkap- Be the conductor tracks of the lead frame 1 suitable non-conductive material used. Usually, the plastic material is applied to the stamped grid 1 by means of an injection molding process, in which the plastic material is liquefied by supplying heat and is sprayed around the stamped grid with the aid of a suitable casting mold.

The recesses in the stamped grid for the soldering of the SMD component 4 on the contact webs 2 are introduced either after the injection process in the lead frame 1 or the injection process is carried out so that the contact webs 2 are not covered by the plastic material.

The SMD components 4 are usually in a reflow process on printed circuit boards and the like. soldered to contact them. A reflow process means a large-area heating of the printed circuit board in order to melt a solder paste, which is arranged between the connection points 3 and the contacts of the SMD component 4. However, such a reflow process has the disadvantage that thereby also the plastic material of the sheath 5 melts or degrades, and is thereby destroyed or deformed. A reflow process for applying SMD components to a stamped grid with a plastic coating is therefore not suitable.

Also, the possibility is excluded of applying the sheath 5 after the application of the SMD component 4 to the connection points 3 of the contact webs 2, ie before the plastic material is injected around the conductor track of the stamped grid. This has the consequence that due to the high temperature which is required for liquefying the plastic material, the solder between the contacts of the SMD component 4 and the connection points 3 also on melts and it may come during the injection process to a detachment of the SMD component from the connection points, to the disruption of the solder joints between the connection points 3 and the contacts of the SMD component 4 and the like.

According to the present invention, it is therefore proposed to mount the SMD component 4 on the contact webs 2 after covering the conductor structures with the plastic material. For this purpose, as is clear from Figures 1 and 2, each part of the contact web 2 is bent away from a plane of the contact web 2. This is used as a heat supply element 10 and brought into contact with a heat source in order to conduct heat via the heat supply element 10 via the contact web 2 to the connection point 3. At the connection point 3, a solder paste 11 is applied, on which the SMD component 4 is placed.

The heat-conducting element 10, as shown in FIG. 1, preferably punched out as a web from the interior of the contact web 2 and bent transversely, preferably perpendicular, to the plane of the contact webs 2, so that the heat-conducting element 10 projects perpendicularly from the contact web 2. The heat-conducting element 10 is bent at a position of the contact web 2, which is closer to the connection region 3 than to the edge of the recess 7, in which no plastic material is located on the lead frame 1, and thus the contact webs 2 are exposed.

Preferably, the web of the heat-conducting element 10 is punched into the contact web 2 such that the heat-conducting element 10 is bent in the immediate vicinity, in particular adjacent to the connection point 3, of the contact web 2. The heat-conducting element 10 serves to heat energy via the heat-conducting element 10 on the contact web 2 and to the connection point. 3 supply, so that there the solder paste 11 is melted to connect the SMD component 4 with the contact webs 2. The heat is conducted via the contact web 2 also in the direction of the edge of the recess 7, ie to the plastic material of the casing 5 at the edge of the recess 7. The heat supply must therefore be such that, although the solder paste 11 is melted, the heat supply, however, as soon as the soldering of the soldering of the SMD component 4 is completed on the contact webs 2, the heat supply is removed or switched off to avoid that the temperature of the

Contact web 2 at the edge of the recess 7 reaches a limit temperature of the plastic material, melts or degraded in the plastic material.

As shown in Fig. 2, the heat input can be made by immersing the heat conducting elements 10 in a Lotbad 15 in which molten solder is at a temperature which is above the melting point of the solder. By dipping the heat-conducting elements 10, the temperature is conducted after a short time to the connection points 3, so that there rises the temperature above the melting point of the solder solder paste 11, this liquefied and thus the SMD component at the connection points 3. At substantially the same time, the temperature of the contact webs begins to rise at the edge of the recess, where the sheath of the plastic material begins to rise. The temperature of the solder material in the solder bath 15 is selected such that the temperature at the connection point 3 exceeds the melting temperature of the solder paste as quickly as possible in order to complete the soldering process, but the temperature at the edge of the recess does not reach the melting temperature of the plastic material until the soldering operation is completed , In the embodiment of FIG. 3, a process state is shown, in which the heat is supplied by introducing the heat into the heat-conducting elements 10 by means of induction coils 16.

FIGS. 4 and 5 show a stamped grid with an applied SMD component, in which the stamped grid is provided with a protective plate 20 which has openings 21 through which the heat-conducting elements 10 extend. In this way, the stamped grid can also be introduced into a reflow oven, in which the heat of the heated air is supplied from the oven via the heat-conducting elements 10, which conduct the heat to the connection points 3. In the embodiments shown in Figures 4 and 5, the heat-conducting elements 10 are not bent as in the embodiments of Figures 1 to 3 in the direction of a side of the contact webs 2, which is opposite to the side on which the SMD component 4 is applied, but in the direction the same side as the SMD component 4.

Instead of a stamped grid, the invention can also be realized with a printed circuit board or other contacting element.

To avoid the temperature increase on the edge of the

Recess at the contact webs is too high, 2 heat sinks can be provided along one or more contact webs, which dissipate heat from the corresponding contact land 2 in the environment. In particular, the contact web 2 can be widened in the region between the edge of the recess 7 and the connection between the heat-conducting element 10 and the connection point 3, so as to achieve a larger area for dissipating the heat. Such measures extend the period of time during which a heat supply may be applied via the heat-conducting element 10 in order to solder the SMD component 4 without the temperature at the edge of the recess 7 reaching or reaching a melting temperature of the plastic material of the jacket 5 which a permanent deformation of the plastic material can be obtained.

Alternatively, the heat-conducting elements 10 can also be heated with a laser or by deliberately applying hot air in order to achieve the soldering of the SMD component at the connection point 3.

Claims

claims

1. A method for equipping a contacting element (1), in particular a stamped grid with an SMD component (4); with the following steps:

- Providing the contacting element (1) with a sheath, in which a connection point (3) in a recess (7) of the sheath (5) is provided;

- placing the SMD component (4) on the connection point Ie (3);

- Local heating of a Wärmeleitelements to heat the junction (3), so that the SMD component (4) is connected to the connection point (3).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein before the heating between the connection point (3) and the SMD component, a solder material is provided.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein the heating is carried out by immersing the Wärmeleitelements (10) in a Lotbad (15), by induction, by applying hot air, or by applying a laser.

4. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein prior to heating a protective plate (20) is placed on the contacting element (1), so that the heat-conducting element (10) through an opening (21) of the protective plate extends, and wherein the protective plate provided contacting element (1) is placed in a reflow oven.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the connection point (3) on a conductor region (2) in the recess (7) of the sheath (5) is provided, wherein the heating of the heat-conducting element (10) only a maximum for a period of time is performed until the conductor region (2) has reached a limit temperature of the material of the sheath (5) at the edge of the recess.

6. contacting element (1), in particular a stamped grid, for applying an SMD component (4), comprising:

a management structure;

- A jacket (5), which surrounds the line structure at least partially;

- A recess (7) in the sheath (5) to provide an uncoated conductor region (2) of the line structure with a connection point (3);

- A heat-conducting element (10) which is formed on the conductor region (2) to supply a heat of the connection point (3).

7. contacting element (1) according to claim 6, wherein the heat-conducting element (10) of the conductor region (2) is formed projecting and is provided as an integral part of the conductor region (2).

8. contacting element (1) according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the heat-conducting element (10) on the conductor region (2) is arranged, so that a better heat conduction to the connection point (3) than to the position of the conductor region (2) at the edge of Recess (7) consists.

9. contacting element (1) according to one of claims 6 to 8, wherein a heat dissipation device on the conductor region (2) and / or a heat-dissipating structuring of the conductor region (2) between the point of the conductor region (2) at the edge of the recess (7). and the location where the heat conduction member (10) and the conductor portion (2) are in contact with each other is provided.

10. contacting element (1) according to one of claims 6 to 8 with a at the junction (3) mounted SMD component (4).

11. contacting element (1) according to one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the SMD component (4) is formed as a solder preform, which at a certain ambient temperature due to its surface tension it collects at the connection point (3) and interrupts a flow of current.