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News Release from: Intertronics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 January 2007
Adhesives focus for exhibition stand
Intertronics reckons that Stand D37 at the Southern Manufacturing Show at Thorpe Park on 7th and 8th February is the place to go for anyone who specifies or uses adhesives.
Intertronics reckons that Stand D37 at the Southern Manufacturing Show at Thorpe Park on 7th and 8th February is the place to go for anyone who specifies or uses adhesives New products from Intertronics include low cost robotic dispensing and single process mixing/degassing equipment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The I and J7100 bench top Cartesian dispensing robot is an ideal choice when cost and bench space are important considerations.
With prices starting at around GBP 4000 this brings robotic dispensing within reach of small assembly shops, specialist manufacturers and dedicated project cells within larger companies - ideal for subcon production.
It will be of interest to producers of all kinds from instrumentation, electronics, sound systems to decorative and display industries where flexibility and cost are vital factors.
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The I and J7100 handles a dispensing area of 200 x 150mm and is capable of storing up to 100 different programs, but takes up less than 0.5m on the bench.
It is ideal for dispensing adhesives, coatings, gaskets, potting, filling and shielding materials to a resolution of 0.02mm.
The I and J7100 offers three-axis continuous path or point to point operation using dots, lines, arcs and circles, with full step and repeat copy functions and automatic offset calculations.
Implementation is simple, as is 24/7 operation with "quick fluid" purge function and 100 program capacity - each with up to 4000 points.
Mixing and degassing of materials such as precious metal pastes, pharmaceuticals or optical adhesives is generally a two-part process taking a very significant amount of time, especially when product pot life can be measured in minutes.
Intertronics has changed all that with the introduction of the Thinky ARE-250.
This patented benchtop planetary mixer is proven in Japan and the US with many thousands installed in laboratories and electronics manufacturing facilities.
The Thinky technology is now available CE marked.
Says Peter Swanson, MD at Intertronics: "The ARE-250 mixes, disperses and degasses down to micron level without a vacuum and in the customer's own pot".
"It is ideal for expensive material mixes such as filled epoxies for die attach and for materials of variable viscosities".
Indeed, the ARE-250 may be used to formulate and mix adhesives, sealants, moulding compounds, lubricants, slurries, coatings, inks, paints, abrasives, bio chemicals, cements, medical compounds, cosmetics/personal care materials, detergents, conductive pastes, dental materials, foods, construction materials or any other materials which are hard to mix, hard to degas or hard to wet.
Typical applications include epoxies and polyurethanes, especially where optical clarity or thermal conductivity must be maintained (by eliminating bubbles).
The benefits of the ARE-250 can especially be seen in time critical situations such as two-part polyurethane with an isocyarate component and a pot life of around 10 minutes - single process mix and degassing relieves the pressure on the operative and the process by ensuring the adhesive is workable for maximum possible time.
The whole mixing/degassing can be done in a much reduced time frame of seconds to minutes dependant on materials.
ARE-250 also mixes gold leaf particles, glass microspheres, aluminium oxides and nanoparticles and provides five program memories, each with five process profiles available.
These are operator determined and programmed in for instant access.
It is found for example that some materials benefit from multiple mixing/degassing/mixing/degassing cycles with different timing and spin speeds at each stage.
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