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SMD desoldering tutorial?

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DarkMatter

Jan 1, 1970
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You are right about there being an implied copyright, but wrong about it
not being enforcable until it's registered. it is enforcable from the
minute you write it. Now being able to prove that you are the one that
wrote it first gets to be a little harder if you don't register it.

Which may be just what he meant.

Virtually unenforceable.

Paper trails are important.
 
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Sunny

Jan 1, 1970
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Mat said:
A radioamateur which desolders SMDs a lot told me the following technique:
Take a heat-resistant, insulated wire like that used to wind transformers.
Stick it behind one row of pins until it comes out on the other side, the
wire should lay just behind the pins. Fasten it some way at one side (e.g.
solder it), preferable somewhat in front of the line of the pins. At the
other side, start heating the pins with a soldering iron, while gently
pulling the free end away from the chip so that the wire pushes against the
back of the pins. When the solder melts, the strain on the wire causes it to
lift the pin and prevent resoldering. Move along the row of pins until all
are done. Repeat as required for other sides.

Mat Nieuwenhoven

I have used that technique, and it's very effective if the device is
slated for the dumpster after removal - although finding an anchor point
is sometimes challenging. This method should not be used if you intend
to re-use the device as it applies pressure at an angle to the pins and
will bend them.
 
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DarkMatter

Jan 1, 1970
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They cannot take a break. They are driven by a culture which produces
workaholics, restless people who are unable to relax.


Wrong, we are unable to relax for criminal mindsets.

Big difference.

Got clue?
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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Active8 wrote:



You are right about there being an implied copyright, but wrong about it
not being enforcable until it's registered. it is enforcable from the
minute you write it. Now being able to prove that you are the one that
wrote it first gets to be a little harder if you don't register it.
Thanks for refreshing my DRAM, your right. Must have confused it
with having to register as a foreign corp in a state one wishes to
sue another company in or something.
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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Which may be just what he meant.

Virtually unenforceable.

Paper trails are important.
No, but that's probably why/how I brain farted on the point :)
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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It also renders many of them NON patentable as they are not
different enough as to be a unique idea.

In fact, it means that nearly any version of that particular
product, even a directly copied one, is not any infringement.

There are many circuits in electronics which were designed by one,
yet reside in the public domain. Same thing for some mechanical
devices.

You want a patent? Do not attempt to patent the entire product.
Find some small feature that you have incorporated into it, and patent
only that. THEN a direct copy by an unsuspecting plagiarizer is
prosecutable as patent infringement.
I wouldn't do it just so I could catch the unsuspecting. That would
cost me more money to defend as opposed to discouraging
infringement by clearly stating somewhere obvious that certain
parts are patented. I've seen it in product lit. "Patented Howling
Hyena (TM) Polysyllabic Woofer Wafer System" or whatever. That was
a hypothetical example.

My favorite - I think it was patented separately. If not, it was
still funny. It had me ROFLMAO at work when the project mgr read
it. We hacked a RS freq counter for an indicator on a prototype
demo.

"Anti-oscillation detection routine." IOW, if the thing doesn't get
the same count so many times out of so many attempts, the count is
discarded as erroneous.

I've seen *multiple* patents on products, too. That'll keep someone
from just changing one subcircuit and patenting a whole new
product. Patent every little thing you can for one product.
 
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