US Patent Issued to CKD on Oct. 14 for "Screen mask inspection device, solder printing inspection device, and method for inspecting screen mask" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,162, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CKD Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Screen mask inspection device, solder printing inspection device, and method for inspecting screen mask" was invented by Kazuyoshi Kikuchi (Aichi, Japan), Takayuki Shinyama (Aichi, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ohyama (Aichi, Japan) and Norihiko Sakaida (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screen mask inspection device inspects a screen mask including a screen opening that forms a printing pattern, and includes: an inspection control device that detects solder position information of a solder paste printed on a substrate via the screen opening, and based on the solder po...