US 12,284,768 B2
Press-in machine for pressing components into a substrate, in particular into a printed circuit board or carrier plate, with changing unit
Kevin Friedrich, Wertheim (DE); Lothar Schwab, Bischbrunn (DE); Kathrin Englert, Marktheidenfeld (DE); and Sebastian Becker, Erlenbach (DE)
Assigned to ERSA GmbH, Wertheim (DE)
Filed by ERSA GmbH, Wertheim (DE)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/980,267.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 128 728.6 (DE), filed on Nov. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0137203 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. H05K 3/30 (2006.01); H01R 12/58 (2011.01); H05K 3/32 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 3/308 (2013.01) [H01R 12/585 (2013.01); H05K 3/325 (2013.01); H05K 2201/1059 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Press-in machine for pressing electrical, electronic, mechanical and/or electromechanical components into a substrate, comprising:
a lower tool, which comes to rest against the underside of the substrate before or during pressing-in,
an upper tool, which with an upper pressing unit for pressing-in the component can be moved against the component along the z-axis toward the substrate,
a changing unit for automatically changing the lower or upper tool, the changing unit comprising:
a magazine in which a plurality of tools can be deposited,
one or more tool-holders, a tool being provided in or on each of the tool-holders,
a displacement unit with which the respective tool holder can be moved along a displacement direction from the magazine into a pressing receptacle of a pressing unit, and
a locking device, with which the respective tool-holder can be locked in the pressing receptacle.