Component Carrier Alignment With Limited Nonlinear Compensation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge of aligning component carriers with high spatial accuracy while managing non-linear deformations and ensuring mechanical robustness and electrical reliability, particularly in harsh conditions, is not adequately addressed by existing methods.

Innovation Solution

A method that involves setting a maximum allowed non-linear compensation limit for deformation, allowing non-linear scaling within defined constraints to maintain alignment accuracy and compatibility with manufacturing processes, using a combination of software and hardware for precise alignment marker detection and processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If non-linear deformation compensation is applied to align the component carrier structure, then alignment accuracy is improved, but manufacturing process compatibility deteriorates due to excessive distortion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvealignment accuracyVSAvoidmanufacturing process compatibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial non-linear compensation by introducing a compensation limit that prevents full correction of non-linear deformations. This selective compensation approach corrects alignment errors within acceptable bounds while avoiding excessive distortion that would compromise manufacturing process compatibility, particularly for subsequent soldering and assembly operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of non-linear compensation by introducing a maximum compensation limit. This parameter modification allows the system to balance between achieving sufficient alignment accuracy and maintaining compatibility with manufacturing processes, preventing over-correction that would create new problems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If higher spatial accuracy is achieved through non-linear compensation, then alignment precision is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvealignment precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements partial non-linear compensation with a defined limit, avoiding the need for complex full non-linear compensation systems. This approach achieves sufficient alignment precision for practical applications while keeping the system complexity manageable by not attempting to correct all non-linear deformations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP3886541B1Alignment with limited non-linear deformation compensation of component carrier structure
Publication Date: 2026.02.18 AT & S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AG
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AI summary

A method of aligning a component carrier structure (100), wherein the method comprises predefining (200) a maximum allowed non-linear compensation limit (108) of compensating non-linear deformation of the component carrier structure (100) during aligning, determining (230) an actual non-linear deformation of the component carrier structure (100) to be aligned, and, if an amount of non-linear compensation needed for fully compensating the actual non-linear deformation exceeds the predefined non-linear compensation limit (108), carrying out (240) non-linear deformation compensation to an extent which does not exceed the predefined non-linear compensation limit (108).