Method and apparatus for finding a fault in a signal path on...

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2005-03-15

2005-03-15

Le, N. (Department: 2858)

Electricity: measuring and testing

Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components

For fault location

C324S534000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06867597

ABSTRACT:
In the case of the present-day trend of miniaturizing housed electronic devices, there is the problem that the contact spacings between the terminal pins becomes smaller and smaller and are no longer visible optically. As a result, it also becomes more difficult to solder the contacts of correspondingly designed contact bases, which for example, are designed as test bases, to the individual conductor tracks of the printed circuit board. Possible faulty soldering points, short circuits or interruptions have hitherto been tracked down by laborious manual measurement using the TDR method. The invention proposes producing a test device in which in each case two terminal pins are connected to a short-circuiting bridge. The test device is inserted into the contact base and connects two signal paths of the printed circuit board on which the propagation time of a reflected wave can be measured.

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