US 11,951,700 B2
Method for encapsulating electronic devices
Guillaume Portier, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); Nicolas Eyroulet, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); Claude Lallement, Clermont-Ferrand (FR); and Baptiste Forichon, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Assigned to COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
Appl. No. 17/602,587
Filed by COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
PCT Filed Apr. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/060131
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/208132, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 15, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1903889 (FR), filed on Apr. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0176663 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. B29D 30/00 (2006.01); B29C 70/72 (2006.01); B60C 23/04 (2006.01); G06K 19/077 (2006.01)
CPC B29D 30/0061 (2013.01) [B29C 70/72 (2013.01); B60C 23/0493 (2013.01); G06K 19/07764 (2013.01); B29D 2030/0077 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for encapsulating electronic devices comprising, successively:
(a) placing a profiled strip on a conveyor belt,
the profiled strip comprising a base and, on an opposite face to a face in contact with the conveyor belt, a flap protruding with respect to the base,
the flap extending in a direction parallel to a longitudinal direction which is a running direction of the conveyor belt,
the base comprising a receiving zone extending along the flap,
the conveyor belt comprising, next to the receiving zone and on an opposite face to a face in contact with the profiled strip, a magnetic means;
(b) positioning an electronic device, in the longitudinal direction, at a regular spacing, on the receiving zone of the profiled strip, the device comprising at least one ferromagnetic material, the magnetic means of the conveyor belt keeping the device in position on the receiving zone; and
(c) plastically deforming the flap by application of an application force in a predetermined direction so as to encapsulate the device.