Automated testing method for electronic circuitry

Details Automated testing method for electronic circuitry Automated testing method for electronic circuitry

1997-12-31

2000-07-25

Ballato, Josie

Electricity: measuring and testing

Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components

Of individual circuit component or element

3241581, G01R 3102

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060940611

ABSTRACT:
A method for testing printed circuit boards (PCBs). The PCBs are initially transported to a reorienting apparatus that aligns the PCBs to accommodate automated test equipment (ATE). The ATE consists essentially of two stations interconnected by a conveyor. At the first station testing of PCBs occurs sequentially at two test wells that are vertically movable between respective idle and testing positions. Upon being discharged from the first test station, a predetermined number of PCBs are concatenated along the conveyor that connects the first test station to the second test station. The concatenated PCBs are delivered to the second test station that simultaneously performs a second test on the predetermined number of PCBs. Inasmuch as the first test is of a duration substantially shorter than the second test, the concatenation of a number of PCBs prior to performance of the second test compensates for the difference in respective durations.

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