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H05K 2203/11

Treatments characterised by their effect, e.g. heating, cooling, roughening

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Indexing scheme relating to apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits covered by H05K3/00 > Treatments characterised by their effect, e.g. heating, cooling, roughening

18 direct subcodes

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  • H05K 2203/1105 Heating or thermal processing not related to soldering, firing, curing or laminating, e.g. for shaping the substrate or during finish plating
  • H05K 2203/111 Preheating, e.g. before soldering
  • H05K 2203/1115 Resistance heating, e.g. by current through the PCB conductors or through a metallic mask
  • H05K 2203/1121 Cooling, e.g. specific areas of a PCB being cooled during reflow soldering
  • H05K 2203/1126 Firing, i.e. heating a powder or paste above the melting temperature of at least one of its constituents
  • H05K 2203/1131 Sintering, i.e. fusing of metal particles to achieve or improve electrical conductivity
  • H05K 2203/1136 Conversion of insulating material into conductive material, e.g. by pyrolysis
  • H05K 2203/1142 Conversion of conductive material into insulating material or into dissolvable compound
  • H05K 2203/1147 Sealing or impregnating, e.g. of pores
  • H05K 2203/1152 Replicating the surface structure of a sacrificial layer, e.g. for roughening
  • H05K 2203/1157 Using means for chemical reduction
  • H05K 2203/1163 Chemical reaction, e.g. heating solder by exothermic reaction
  • H05K 2203/1168 Graft-polymerization
  • H05K 2203/1173 Differences in wettability, e.g. hydrophilic or hydrophobic areas
  • H05K 2203/1178 Means for venting or for letting gases escape
  • H05K 2203/1184 Underetching, e.g. etching of substrate under conductors or etching of conductor under dielectrics; Means for allowing or controlling underetching
  • H05K 2203/1189 Pressing leads, bumps or a die through an insulating layer
  • H05K 2203/1194 Thermal treatment leading to a different chemical state of a material, e.g. annealing for stress-relief, aging

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class H05, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 9,981
  2. SAMSUNG DISPLAY KR 5,041
  3. LG ELECTRONICS KR 4,742
  4. PHILIP MORRIS PRODUCTS CH 4,411
  5. PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY JP 3,915
  6. PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 3,471
  7. SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS COMPANY KR 3,210
  8. MURATA MANUFACTURING COMPANY JP 3,191
  9. FUJI JP 2,987
  10. SIGNIFY HOLDING NL 2,907