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Filtering date gt in SQLite returns identical objects
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I'm putting together a very simple blog app, and one feature I put in was to have a link to the next newer and older entries. Here's what (the relevant parts of) my model looks like:
class Entry(models.Model): when = models.DateField(core=True) def newer(self): set = Entry.objects.filter(blogger=self.blogger).filter(when__gt=self.when) try: return set[0] except IndexError: return None def older(self): set = Entry.objects.filter(blogger=self.blogger).filter(when__lt=self.when) try: return set[0] except IndexError: return None
I run my site using MySQL, and things work properly (ie, for the newest entry, newer returns None, etc). On my test environment, I'm using SQLite. Older works properly; however, when viewing the newest entry, newer returns itself.
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by ubernostrum
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Have you tried the automatically-created get_next_by_when and get_previous_by_when methods to see if they show the same behavior?
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by Michael Snoyman <michael+django@…>
I just tested them, and they work properly on the SQLite database.
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@…>
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Perhaps you are seeing this behavior because you are returning the first item of your set QuerySet, but the QuerySet is not ordered. So you end up getting a random ordering of Entry objects newer than the given Entry object and returning the first item in that QuerySet. This could lead to duplicate Entry objects being returned since it's not ordered by when date.


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Fajita Marinade
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Found this on bhg.com and the publisher was "maggiea". DS is addicted to A1 steak sauce, so we wanted fajitas last night and this marinade was very tasty. If you like saucy fajita meat, then this is for you. Prep time is the 2 hour marinade time.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1⁄2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons oil (any type works)
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1⁄3 cup A.1. Original Sauce
- Combine all ingredients, mixing well.
- Marinade 1 1/2lbs Beef or Chicken for at least 2 hours.
- Cook as desired on outside grill, stovetop saute pan, or you can even cook them on the George Foreman grill.
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I have made this four times and I absolutely love it, my only complaint is the saltiness,i use a teaspoon instead.
This was easy and good but was missing the "zip" I expect in fajitas. If I make it again, I would add a lot more lemon juice, or maybe some lime juice. Would probably work well as an all-purpose steak marinade.


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Limitations in health care access and utilization among long-term survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer
Version of Record online: 24 SEP 2012
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27537
Copyright © 2012 American Cancer Society
Volume 118, Issue 23, pages 5964–5972, 1 December 2012
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Kirchhoff, A. C., Lyles, C. R., Fluchel, M., Wright, J. and Leisenring, W. (2012), Limitations in health care access and utilization among long-term survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer. Cancer, 118: 5964–5972. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27537
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Health care outcomes for long-term survivors of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer were compared with young adults without a cancer history, using the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data.
Eligible participants were 20 to 39 years of age. There were N = 979 who self-reported a cancer diagnosis between the ages of 15 to 34 years and were at least 5 years from diagnosis (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer). The remaining 67,216 participants with no cancer history were used as controls. Using multivariable regressions, relative risks and 95% confidence intervals were generated to examine the relationship of survivor status on indicators of poor health care (uninsured, no personal health care provider, no routine care, and avoiding seeing a doctor due to cost). Adjusted proportions were calculated by demographic groups. Results are weighted by Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey design.
Although the proportion uninsured did not differ (21% of survivors vs 23% of controls), AYA survivors reported forgoing care due to cost at higher levels than controls (relative risk = 1.67, 95% CI = 1.44-1.94). Cost barriers were particularly high for survivors aged 20 to 29 years (44% vs 16% of controls; P < .001) and female survivors (35% vs 18% of controls; P < .001). Survivors reporting poorer health had more cost barriers. Moreover, uninsured survivors tended to report lower use of health care than did controls.
AYA cancer survivors may forgo health care due to cost barriers, potentially inhibiting the early detection of late effects. Expanding health insurance coverage for young cancer survivors may be insufficient without adequate strategies to reduce their medical cost burdens. Cancer 2012. © 2012 American Cancer Society.


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The intersection of SW 33rd and Urish is scheduled to be closed for 90 days, starting next Monday. Asection of 33rd is closed already.
Shawnee County Public Works engineer Frank Weinhold says they will be improving the intersection to accommodate a new road leading to farley elementary.
Construction on the road to access the school began January 19th. All construction is expected to be complete by June 24th.


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This exercise pack actually came with more than i thought it would. I was surprised on the great quality of the 2 exercise bands that came with it. Definitely worth buying. You wont be disappointed
I got more than I expected from this product. I also like the exercises that are listed in the guide, they are very effective and even doing them for a few minutes gives a good workout.
Haven't had a chance to use this yet as I'm unsure which band to use. The red or the blue. Was a bit disappointed that nowhere on the box or in the How - to - Use instructions does it say which one is the medium resistance and which is the heavy resistance band. Awaiting email from company to find out.


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Lucy May Joslyn and her sister Gwyndoline Lisabell Joslyn, taken in Cleveland, OH. Lucy was born 4 Dec 1881 in Pittston, Luzerne, PA, and Gwyndoline, born 7 May 1883, we believe in the same location.
They were the children of Jeremiah Joslyn, born, Warsaw, Wyoming Co, NY and died 10 Feb 1886 in Pittston and Martha Safronie Williams, born 31 Jul 1856, NY, died 5 Oct 1912 in Bedford, Cuyahoga, OH. The two girls were placed in an orphanage. Gwyn was adopted by the Stephen and Lucy Keiver family of NY who lived in Harwich Twp, Kent Co, Ontario, Canada.
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NPD April 2010 software: Conviction tops with 486K units sold
The monthly NPD numbers are out, and on the software side, Xbox 360 exclusive Splinter Cell: Conviction was tops with 486K units sold, followed by Pokemon Soul/Silver in second place, moving 242.9K units.
Over all, sales for software dropped 22 percent to $398.5M, and only two titles released in April landed in the top ten – Conviction and SSFIV.
Here's how the rest stacked up, with NPD apparently, withholding the actual figures for 6-10:
- Splinter Cell: Conviction (360) – 486.1K
- Pokemon Soul/Silver (DS) – 242.9K
- New Super MArio Bros. Wii (Wii) – 200.3K
- Pokemon Heart/Gold (DS)- 192.6K
- God of War III (PS3) – 180.3K
- Wii SPorts Resort with WMP (Wii)
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My partner was doing something on our laptop, and now all our icons look the same (the Internet Explorer icon). When you open something up (eg Windows Media Player), it goes straight to Internet Explorer, everything I open is Windows Explorer.
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October 06, 2011 8:00 PM
Floods in Thailand have killed more than 200 people, destroyed farmland, and forced thousands to evacuate low-lying areas near rivers. Surging waters are now threatening a United Nations World Heritage site in the ancient city of Ayutthaya, which officials worry could suffer permanent damage. Seventy-year-old Chaba is sitting in a blue metal canoe she borrowed and paddling to get home.She has to duck as the canoe goes under the roof of her two-storey wooden house. The first floor is submerged under three meters of muddy flood water.Chaba and her 20 relatives now live together on what was the second floor.For food and water three times a day they have to make their way out of the neighborhood to a nearby relief tent.They borrow a boat, catch a ride to a makeshift walkway, or wade through the water.Some families in Chaba's neighborhood float household appliances to dry ground using chunks of Styrofoam or crude rafts.She says she has a big family so life is very difficult. She has no boat and had to swim to get here. She says they are almost out of food and there is no drinking water.Chaba's is one of hundreds of homes and businesses in Ayutthaya that were submerged after heavy rains burst river banks.
The centuries-old Chaiwattanaram temple lies along the west bank of the Chao Phraya River.The river flooded and now the temple's brick spires point out from what appears somewhat like an ancient swimming pool.Chaiyannand Busayarat is director of the Ayutthaya Historical Park. Looking at the temple from a nearby busy bridge, he says they tried to pump out the water but there was nowhere for it to go.He says they have stopped doing anything. After the situation is normal they will see how much damage there is and find some long-term measures to prevent this in the future.The United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, says if the flooding gets worse the historic city's World Heritage Sites on the other side of the river are at risk.The U.N. agency has offered Thailand emergency assistance if requested.A Royal Thai Navy patrol boat runs its engine in Bangkok's Lad Poe Pier canal.The grey metal boat is tied to a dock just inside the canal, which has been opened to divert water from the Chao Phraya River to the sea.The navy has ordered large ships in the canal to run their motors most of the day to help push the waters out to sea.Vice Admiral Taweewut Pongpipat says they are draining an extra five million cubic meters of water a day from the river."If more rain [there] may be the problem, " said Admiral Pongpipat. "Because, if more rain the water will come up. We pray. We pray no more rain."But Thai weather forecasters say more rains are expected in the coming days and the situation is likely to only get worse.


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I had the rare chance this 3-day weekend to work on something that I never (ever) find the time to work on. I love painting miniatures and have been steadily adding to my collection of kits that I will "someday" paint.
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Variety reports that fans of the Netflix series Narcos will soon be able to run their own international drug cartel via a mobile game based on the show, which centres around the hunt for Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug kingpin.
The free-to-play game, entitled "Narcos: Cartel Wars," is currently being developed by the producers of the Netflix show, Gaumont Television, along with game publisher FTX Games, and is due to launch this September.
The timing of the release is specifically to tie in with the September 2 debut of Season 2 of the show on Netflix, which features Brazilian actor Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar.
In Narcos: Cartel Wars, the player takes on the role of a fledgling cartel lieutenant who is guided by the characters from the Netflix show. As you build up your cartel, you must choose between going for raw power, earning respect through loyalty, or a little bit of both. You'll also have to form alliances with other players in order to create new cartels and wage war to gain more territory, riches, and respect.
Source: 'Narcos' Mobile Game Based on Netflix Show Will Let You Run Your Own Drug Cartel (EXCLUSIVE)
Apple's Q3 figures were better than expected, reports AppleInsider. The company posted $42.4 billion in revenue, and quarterly net income of $7.8 billion.
It was iPhone sales that helped Apple to achieve a higher result than expected, with Apple shipping 40.4 million units in total in the June quarter, which was a better result than the $42.2 billion in revenue and 40 million iPhones sold predicted by Wall Street.
Despite this slight increase, June quarter sales were down from 47.5 million iPhones one year ago, representing a decrease of 15%. Revenue was down from the year ago amount of $49.6 billion.
As far as iPad sales were concerned, the higher average selling price of the iPad Pro meant that Apple still enjoyed a 9% increase in revenue, despite seeing a 7% decrease in total sales, with just under 10 million units sold in Q3.
If you're looking for a game that's a little more relaxing and chilled out than Pokémon Go, then Blyss, from developers Dropout Games, could be the very thing you need.
Released tomorrow, Wednesday July 27, Touch Arcade reports that the game is a simpler puzzler with calming music and visuals designed to help you achieve peace of mind.
You play the game by swiping white blocks with dots on them in order to eliminate them and clear the puzzle, all set against a calming backdrop.
Dropout Games promises lots of different game modes, as well as visual themes that come complete with their own soundtrack. It certainly seems as if Blyss hits that sweet spot of a game that is involved enough to keep you guessing, and requires a certain degree of strategic thinking, yet also has a calming vibe that can help you to relax.
Blyss can be downloaded from tomorrow, for $1.99, with no in-app purchases whatsoever.
Source: Beautiful Puzzle Title 'Blyss' Launches on the App Store Tomorrow
The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it no longer considers text messages as secure enough when used as part of a two-factor identification method (2FA).
Currently, when you opt to use 2FA on your iPhone or iPad, you can choose to have a code sent to you via SMS. That is set to no longer be the case, however, as NIST is soon to bar its use.
9to5 Mac notes that while NIST's guidelines are not enforceable by law, most companies do usually choose to obey their rulings, so that could mean that Apple will soon drop SMS authentication from its list of options for 2FA, which currently include a phone call to a trusted number, a code sent by SMS to a trusted number, or a code sent to a trusted device such as an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Mac.
Source: Apple & others may soon be barred from using SMS for two-factor authentication
The incredibly successful launch of Pokémon Go around the world marches on, with the game arriving in App Stores in France and Hong Kong over the weekend, with Hong Kong being the first Asian location other than Japan to have the game.
Meanwhile, MacRumors reports that at San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend, Niantic CEO John Hanke revealed some snippets of information about what new features fans can expect in future updates for the game. It's fair to say that he didn't give all that much away, but he did reveal that we can look forward to new Pokémon, and also the ability to be able to trade Pokémon with other players.
The names of the team leaders for Team Mystic, Team Valor, and Team Instinct were also revealed as Blanche, Candela, and Spark, respectively, along with their pictures rather than the silhouettes that appear in the game (because they weren't finished in time, apparently!). Hanke said that the team leaders will soon be given a more prominent role in the game, communicating with players and offering advice.
Finally, it appears that Nintendo's recent statement that it didn't expect the massive success of Pokémon Go to have much impact on its quarterly earnings as it only has 32% of The Pokémon Company didn't go down very well at all with investors, sending Nintendo stock falling 17% at its lowest point, knocking $6.4 billion off their value, representing Nintendo's biggest decline since October 1990.
Source: Pokémon Go Debuts in France and Hong Kong as Nintendo Shares Dive
AppleInsider has posted two photos that it is claimed were taken by an employee working in Apple's Asian supply chain, and that are said to be of the iPad Pro 2.
The images show an iPad with an unknown device identification number (MH1C2CD/F), but one that does follow Apple's device numbering protocol.
The anonymous source who sent the images to AppleInsider claims to have obtained them from a Chinese supplier who is currently working on an iPad Pro model that will enter production in late September 2016.
The images don't give much away about the finished product at this early stage; for example, the iPad Pro pictured only has 12 gigabytes of storage, which suggests that it is some sort of prototype or pre-production testing device.
AppleInsider says that it cannot vouch for whether or not the photos are genuine, although it does believe that Apple is planning to launch a refresh of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro sometime this fall.
Source: First photos of alleged 'iPad Pro 2' surface in China
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Am I the only one who's noticed that 99% of the backlash over what's in the film has to do with the title? Seriously, if it had been titled something like "the journey" no one would be saying "that's totally inaccurate, that happened thousands of years later." which are the only arguments ever really made about it. The actual date or location of the events is never stated in film. Why assume that the title is an accurate date and base all of your expectations on that? It's silly. It'd be like complaining that "The Day After Tomorrow" is totally wrong in its portrayal because it takes weeks for things to actually go wrong, instead of it actually happening the day after tomorrow. If you take away the assumption that the title is actually stating when the movie happens, then it's just a semi-realistic fantasy adventure movie like a bajillion others before and since. There's no reason whatsoever to take the title of a movie so dead seriously when it's obviously a colloquialism at best. I mean, if you meet a friend that you haven't seen for ten years and go "Wow, it's been a million years since I saw you!" do they immediately snap back with "No, it's only been ten; no wonder we haven't spoken in a decade, you're clearly a moron with no sense of how time actually functions." No, that doesn't happen because you're using a purposely exaggerated phrase and they realize that. Why does no one see that this is what happened with the title of this film? Honestly, if anything, it's a stylized glance at the progression of history. Think about it: We start out with the primitive spear-wielding hunter-gatherer tribe living in an ice-age environment, then we move to an agricultural tribe with armor and shields living on an open plain, and then go to a large-scale organized civilization living near a large constant water source; the nomadic horse-riding raiders weave throughout the story since nomadic horse-riding raider type cultures have existed for as long as people knew that horses were a thing and that riding them made it easier to steal stuff from your neighbors. It's an allegorical work, not a literal one.
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Sorry to hear that about your house. Hope all is well for you now. As I'm sure you are, looking forward to KingMike release and seeing more of the game. I wasn't really able to play very far into.
thank you, is okay, it could been worse but I'm doing well, maybe even better than before because I woke up afterwards with a new attitude.
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Cast: Lefty Larue, Ace (I), Jason Cox, Kris Knight, Veronica Lynn, Jack Venice, Dick Nasty, Tony Tedeschi, Estella Leon, Luscious Lopez, Johnny Fender, Buster Good
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The folks at Kick Ass certainly don't like to mess with a successful formula. These three gangbang and cream pie scenes are pretty much interchangeable: boring interview footage with the participants is followed by a striptease, then pretty good sucking and fucking. It climaxes with five guys taking turns planting their seed inside the babes, who squeeze out the goo and play with it.
Estella Leon's scene rises slightly above the others due to her fine wet deep throating, though all these babes turn in good, if virtually interchangeable, performances. It's worth noting that this entry in the series features two Latinas and a Filipina, so it also has the interracial angle going for it.
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This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 08/024,991 filed on Mar. 2, 1993 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,520,967.
This invention relates to the application of solder to a circuit board by dipping the board into a solder bath.
A typical circuit board comprises a substrate having a pattern of copper conductive tracks formed onto it. The substrate can either be rigid, as in a printed circuit board (PCB), or flexible (the term "circuit board" will be used to cover both types). Active and passive electronic components are soldered onto the board via a set of pads arranged around the periphery of a component site. Each pad is the termination of a conductive copper track providing an input/output line to that component.
In one standard manufacturing process for PCBs the copper pads are protected from oxidation before the components are attached by coating the pads with a thin layer of solder (the tracks themselves are normally protected by a polyimide coverlay). The pads are first cleaned in a flux solution which comprises a mixture of acid cleaner and solvent and sometimes oil, and then immersed into a bath of molten solder. On withdrawal from the bath, solder only adheres to the exposed copper pads, but not to other regions of the PCB. It is important to ensure that an even coating of solder is applied, and one way of doing this is with a hot air solder levelling (HASL) machine, such as that described in GB 1457325. In a HASL machine, as the PCB is lifted out of the solder bath, it is blasted by jets of hot air from nearby nozzles which blow away excess solder. GB 1181421 describes an alternative method of removing excess solder by shaking or vibrating the circuit board after removal from the solder bath. In GB 1181421 the solder bath is covered by a thin layer of peanut oil.
As an alternative to immersion in a solder bath, it is also possible to use a solder wave process to coat the circuit board with solder. Another slightly different solder apply process is described in IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, 1982, Vol 24, No 11A, P5726 in which the level of solder in the tank is raised rather than the board lowered. The solder is covered by a thin layer of a glycerine solution to prevent oxidation of the solder, which overflows when the solder level is raised. The circuit board is vibrated while in the solder.
After the solder application stage, electronic components such as packaged silicon chips are mounted onto the PCB. The components usually have either a set of leads for soldering to the pads, or terminals on the component can be directly bonded onto the pads (such as with surface mount passive components). In either approach, additional solder is applied to the pads at this stage, typically by screening. This solder is used for bonding the components to the pads. As the size of the electronic components for such circuits has shrunk, so has the spacing of the pads surrounding them. In some cases adjacent pads are no more than 0.12 mm apart (approximately equal to the width of the pads themselves). Solder screening techniques are not at present capable of depositing such finely-spaced patterns of solder.
IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin 1976 Vol 18 No 10 P3182-3183 describes one possible way around this problem, by applying solder to the components rather than the board. The components are pivoted through a solder bath and on removal from the bath, an oscillatory motion is produced using a spring stop to remove excess solder. Applying solder to the components rather than the board has the disadvantage that often the components have leads which need to be shaped, and this is hard to do once they have been coated in solder. Also, difficulties have been experienced in producing reliable joints, which are believed to be due to metallurgical problems at the bond between the lead and the solder.
The art does not provide a reliable method of applying a sufficient and controlled amount of solder to circuit boards to allow advanced components with very small pad spacing to be mounted onto the board.
Accordingly, the present invention provides a method of applying solder to a circuit board by dipping the board into a bath of molten solder, the molten solder being covered by a layer of oil;
the method being characterized in that the circuit board is dipped into the bath by rotating the board through the solder bath along the path substantially coplanar with the circuit board.
Somewhat surprisingly, the method has been found to give excellent uniformity of solder height on pads (in this context, solder height is used as an easily measurable parameter of solder volume). Such uniformity is important, because too little solder will produce a poor bond, while too much can lead to shorts between adjacent pads. The uniformity of solder height obtained by the present invention is believed to be due to the smoothness of the rotary motion, and also to the layer of oil, which prevents the temperature gradient on exit from being too great. This allows the solder on the pad to equilibrate into the correct shape, and avoids drag-out artifacts. The equilibration process is also responsible for the correct amount of solder being deposited onto the pads. This is in contrast to solder screening, where a fixed quantity of solder is simply dumped onto the pads, and HASL, where the amount of solder is determined by the air jets.
The path of the board through the bath is most conveniently a circular are, but could be some other suitably curved or arcuate shape, e.g., a cycloid, especially if it were necessary to reduce the size of solder bath, but this would require a more complicated drive mechanism. Preferably, the exit angle of the board from the solder bath is between 35 and 55 degrees. This angle can be measured between the vertical and the main axis of the board, and since most rectangular pads are aligned with this main axis, the diagonals of such pads are approximately vertical on exit from the solder bath. The orientation of the rectangular pads on exit has proved to be important in achieving uniformity of solder height.
Another significant parameter is the angular velocity of the board through the solder bath. A preferred rotation rate for the board is between 1 and 4 rpm. A slower rotation rate also provides an acceptable distribution of solder heights, but clearly reduces the throughput of the apparatus. Variation of the rotation rate through the solder bath has been found to provide some control over the amount of solder deposited on the pads, with the solder height adjustable by about a factor of two depending on the rotation rate used. A faster rotation rate leads to more solder being retained on each pad, but also to diminished uniformity in solder height.
It is advantageous to vibrate the board while it is in the molten solder, preferably in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the path of rotation, this having been found to be useful in improving the solder coating of pads where the surrounding coverlay opening is relatively small. A vibration frequency of approximately 100 Hz has been used. Since vibrations have been found to have a potentially adverse effect on solder height distribution, it is preferred to only vibrate the board during the first part of its motion through the solder bath, but not during exit from the bath.
The invention also provides apparatus for applying solder to a circuit board comprising a carrier for supporting the board, and drive means for moving the carrier to dip the circuit board into the solder bath; characterized in that the drive means is operable to rotate the circuit board through the solder bath along a path substantially coplanar with the circuit board.
Preferably the apparatus further comprises means for vibrating the carrier in a direction perpendicular to the plane of said path.
The invention will now be described with reference to the following drawings:
FIG. 1 is a simplified front view of the solder immersion apparatus of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a simplified plan view of the solder immersion apparatus of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a circuit board to which solder is to be applied;
FIG. 4 is a chart illustrating the distribution of solder heights obtained using the present invention; and
FIG. 5 illustrates a modification of the apparatus of FIG. 1 that permits a smaller solder bath to be used.
FIG. 6 shows a section of circuit board of the invention with copper pads covered by solder deposited by dipping in a solder bath.
FIG. 7 shows a titanium pin inserted in a cylindrical through hole in a section of the circuit board of the invention.
FIG. 8 shows a flexible circuit board of copper film covered by polyimide films.
FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate solder immersion apparatus in accordance with the present invention. A bath 1 contains molten solder 3, which is typically a eutectic mixture of 63% tin and 37% lead at a temperature of approximately 220 degrees centigrade, although other compositions and temperatures can be used. On top of the solder is a layer of oil 5, such as a polyoxyalxylene glycol of ether, which prevents oxidation of the molten solder and the formation of dross. The oil also serves another important purpose as explained below. The circuit board 7 to be coated is mounted on a titanium carrier 9 (titanium is used because it is non-wetting in solder). The carrier in turn is supported by a shaft 11, which can be rotated by a motor 13. The height of the shaft can be adjusted and the motor speed, and hence the rotation rate of the shaft, is also controllable.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a circuit board with a flexible substrate made from a copper polyimide laminate. The present invention has been developed primarily with such flexible circuit boards, but is also applicable to circuit boards have rigid substrates. For the former, the carrier must be at least coextensive with the board to support it, but with rigid substrates the carrier can just be a device for attaching the board to the shaft, and need not necessarily enter the solder itself. The board has two component sites 20 surrounded by a series of copper pads 22. Each pad represents the termination of a copper track 29 (not all of these are shown). The limits of the coverlay that protects the copper tracks from oxidation are marked by borders 26 which surround the component sites. Inside the borders 26 are the exposed pads (and parts of tracks) that are to be coated with solder. Holes 30 are provided for fastening the circuit board to the carrier 9.
Before soldering, the board is first cleaned or "fluxed" in a mixture of flux, acid cleaner, and oil to remove oxidation from the pads. The board is then rotated along an arc through the solder bath, with a rotation speed of about 2 revolutions per minute (this adjustable). FIG. 3 shows the line 32 of deepest immersion. The total are length through the solder is about 90 degrees, with corresponding entry and exit angles of approximately 45 degrees (this represents the angle on entry/exit between the vertical and the main axis of the copper tracks, shown vertically in FIG. 3).
This technique has been used to apply solder to a circuit board in which the pads are only 0.15 mm across. The specifications for solder height in this case are between 5 and 50 microns--if there is less solder than the bond formed will be poor, whereas with excess solder adjacent pads may short together. Solder height will only be a valid indication of the solder volume if the solder on a pad has properly equilibrated (i.e., formed a minimum energy shape as dictated by surface tension). An important feature of the present invention is that the layer of oil on the solder reduces the temperature gradient on exit, and allows time for the solder to reflow into this equilibrium shape, thereby avoiding drag-out artifacts.
FIG. 4 illustrates test data showing the distribution of measured solder height of pads from a number of boards. These results exhibit a high degree of uniformity of solder height, with a standard deviation for a normal fit less than 2 microns. Clearly this is well within the process specifications given above (in this particular case the mean is deliberately offset to the lower end of the specification range to meet solder coating requirements elsewhere on the board; it is not a feature of the invention). The mean applied solder height can be controlled somewhat (within a range of about a factor of two) by adjusting the speed of the circuit board through the solder. A faster rotation rate results in a thicker coating of solder, but less uniformity in solder height.
Some problems with non-wetting have been encountered at probe sites 27 on the board (see FIG. 3). These are circular pads included for testing purposes. The difficulty appears not to be directly due to the size or shape of the pads themselves, but rather the small diameter (or more accurately, the relatively small ratio of width to depth) of the associated aperture in the coverlay 36 (the probe sites 27 and coverlay apertures 36 have been somewhat enlarged in FIG. 3 for clarify). Whereas the component pads occur in rows and are encompassed by just a single opening in the coverlay, the probe sites are scattered and each has its own small coverlay hole associated with it. It is likely that these holes fill up with oil on entry into the solder bath, and subsequently the solder has difficulty displacing the oil from such small apertures due to the surface tension of the oil. Consequently, solder is prevented from properly coating these sites.
To overcome this problem, a vibrator is attached to the carrier. Vibration has been found to help prevent non-wetting by displacing the oil from the coverlay apertures, but is also liable to diminish solder height uniformity. To avoid this, therefore, the board is only vibrated during the first part of its path through the solder, when it is important to ensure solder wetting of all the pads. The vibrator is then switched off to allow the solder to equilibrate properly on exit from the bath. For a flexible circuit board, the vibrations are coupled to the board by rigidly attaching the board to the carrier at various points, e.g., by pins or clips, some of which will be immersed in the solder. In contrast, if the circuit board is a rigid PCB, vibrations may be transmitted from the non-immersed part of the board to the immersed part via the board itself. It may be possible to attach the vibrator directly to the PCB itself, but this would probably be less convenient from a manufacturing point of view. The frequency of vibrations used is 100 Hz, but a very wide range of frequencies (including possibly ultrasonics) is likely to be suitable for this task. In some circumstances, vibration may not fully prevent non-wetting of the probe sites or other features of similar dimension. If this is the case, additional solder can be applied to the probe sites by screening at a later stage. This is possible because the probe sites are isolated, and so the alignment and amount of solder deposited are not critical. Indeed, it is only because they are isolated that there is the problem with the aperture size in the coverlay. Thus it is not essential for the vibration alone to completely prevent non-wetting, although it is desirable since it avoids the need for separate screening onto the probe sites.
Another difficulty encountered was with cylindrical through-holes in the circuit board into which ground pins can be inserted to ground the board. The rims of these holes on the upper surface of the board comprise annular copper lands, while the interior of the holes are non-conductive. The problem was that a hemispherical solder skin tended to form across the hole, instead of an annular coating on the land. An effective remedy to this is to use titanium pins that extend through the apertures, allowing the lands to be properly coated with solder.
One potential disadvantage of the present invention compared to the previous practice is that a bigger solder bath is required. If necessary, this can be alleviated by adapting the path of the board through the solder. For example, the shaft 11 and carrier 9 can be moved laterally from left to right at the same time as they are rotated clockwise. This is illustrated in FIG. 5, which shows the position of the carrier on entry 32 and on exit 30 (dotted line) from the solder bath. This motion provides essentially the same rotation and exit angle and hence uniformity of solder height as the apparatus of FIG. 1, but allows a smaller solder bath to be used at the expense of a slightly more complicated drive mechanism. FIG. 6 shows solder 42 of the invention deposited on a conventional copper pad 43 on a rigid circuit board substrate 44 made by any well known process for forming such substrates. FIG. 7 shows titanium pin 50 inserted through conventional cylindrical hole 52 in order to provide solder 54 on land 56 in an opening 58 in coverlay 60. FIG. 8 shows a conventional flexible circuit board 66 of flexible copper film 68 and flexible polyimide coverlay films 70, 72. Solder 74 is deposited according to the invention on pads 76,78 within a single coverlay opening 80. Other suitable forms of motion and appropriate implementations will be readily apparent to the skilled person.
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|Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
|Method of making a hybrid semiconductor device
|Feb 16, 1993
|Jan 31, 1995
|E. I. Du Pont De Nemours And Company
|Printed circuit board having U-shaped solder mask layer separating respective contacts
|Feb 2, 1994
|Mar 28, 1995
|Aptix Corporation
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|Dec 26, 1995
|Samsung Electronics Co., Inc.
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|Soldering method and apparatus
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|Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
|Soldering method and apparatus
|Oct 13, 1999
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|Texas Instruments Incorporated
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|Gerhardt Thomas J.
|Selectively plated sensor
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|Tamagawa Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
|Soldering method and apparatus
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|174/261, 361/767, 228/180.1
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Sep 18, 2000
|Fee payment
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|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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The "Snoopy Room" also serves as the guest room. Just wake up and feel like a kid again! I keep the room closed since I hate the inevitable dust. Altogether, I have at least 11,000 unique items, give or take. Almost 8,000 of them are cataloged on my website, CollectPeanuts.com. The Snoopy room is rotated on a yearly basis and is always in a state of continuous accumulation.
Sit down at the vintage child-size chrome table and have a tea party with Snoopy. I'm just glad I never have to pick up my toys again!
From this vantage, we can sorta see the toy box shaped like Snoopy's Doghouse full of plush Snoopys and Belles. Also, I have a Snoopy Splash n' Play toy, for hooking up to a hose in the summer and running through its random jets of cold water. A Snoopy Phone is in the top corner with a matching Snoopy Phone bulletin board.
This bookcase feature some of my favorite Asian collectibles and other American favorites. The bottom shelf has a Snoopy Speedway. It's battery operated and brings the cars back up to the top so they can race again and again without human intervention.
On the top shelf, I have a Snoopy Timex Watch display, a Japanese Diet Pepsi Aluminum bottle and an Uncle Sam Snoopy Bank. Below, are some of my Hallmark Greeting Books from the 1970's filled with quick bits of wisdom from the Peanuts Gang and used as greeting cards. The taller books on the far left are pop-up books from Hallmark in the 1970's.
A few of my Peanuts Anniversary books and a Schulz biography mixed with a McCoy Doghouse Cookie Jar, a 1958 Linus Hungerford Doll, and a couple Anri Wooden music boxes, also featuring Linus.
This shelf holds the earliest paperback collections of Peanuts comic strips published by Holt, Reinhart & Winston. Many of them first or early editions with a few French and Spanish version too! A They are fiercely guarded by Samurai Snoopy. Snoopy-in-the-box is always ready to spring into action.
Along with some Asian Snoopy figurines are gift books published by Harper Collins from the 1990's.
Our next bookcase, containing many treasures, and not just Peanuts. I absolutely love the Peanuts growing chart next to it. There aren't many collectibles with Vulture Snoopy on them. I'm not sure if I want to grow that tall if there's a vulture waiting for me!
The top shelf contains some newer Peanuts strip collections on the left, and non-Peanuts Schulz works on the right. The orange doghouse is a music box/bank that plays music while Snoopy dances, but only if you put money in!
Lucy dominates this shelf of Determined gift books such as the perennial favorite, Happiness is a Warm Puppy. Snoopy's garage embodies one of those toys I never got as a kid. Nothing like ramps for your die-cast cars!
The Snoopy Flying Ace Mattel Skeddidler and Red Baron music box set the scene for one of my most prized possessions: film from Snoopy Come Home. The box contains an alternate opening title sequence, scenes cut from a foreign version, negatives and storyboard animations. Beside the film are TV special and movie based books.
I always get a kick out of these Snoopy fast food banks! Nothing like dog hair on your hot dog! Also, I have some later Peanuts strip compilation books, both American and foreign. The Anri music box with Schroeder on his piano is also a treat!
My Grandfather's copy of The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics is the most noteworthy item here. It was one of the factors that started me on this tailspin of comic strip love. When I was bored at their house, it time drag out the gigantic book of comic strips. Little Nemo was always a treat, even if I couldn't read. Ahhh… memories!
Also in residence, Bloom County, Robotman, Pogo and Bizarro. I pick up what I can when there are cheap sales at the local Half-Price Books store. There's more non-Peanuts books where these came from. It's just a matter of making them disappear from my parent's house.
When you have this many Snoopys, collector guides are a must. My most dog-earred is Peanuts Home Collection. The binders are filled with trading cards, comic books, greeting cards, magazine ads and even pogs!
Video cabinets are perfect for those paperback books from Fawcett Crest. My dad had about a dozen of them from his childhood that he passed on to me. He got me started, it's all his fault. There's nothing he can do about it. If he only knew what he was getting himself into!
This corner of the room has World Tour Snoopy Happy Meal Toys from Asia in the doghouse case, a 1974 calendar with a hilarious image, a Worlds of Wonder Talking Snoopy store display and Groucho Marx, of all people. Hear Snoopy talk on Youtube!
Warning! This room is protected by an attack Border Collie!
As a big Peanuts fan I have to say that I'm extremely jealous of a lot of the items in this room!
I love this room! Can you imagine how hard it would be to actually sleep in that room, with so many awesome toys to play with? Oh, and I think my favorite item is the Snoopy on the skateboard. That's very Joe Cool.
Love the focus of the collection and the advanced security system … A.
Somebody buy her some of the Complete Peanuts books, stat!
(Way cool room.)
Awesome!!! Reminds me of the early 70's when there was tons of Peanuts stuff on the market. Good times.
Hey, no mention of your dear old Mother who helped build this collection? And is still 'storing' a lot of it, including the Complete Peanuts books (as Bully suggested), and other non-Peanuts books. If they disappear, I'll know where to look…
Great job with the pics and the story, Caren. The room looks great. I'm proud of you.
Hello-WOW !!!! LOVE IT !!!! What an awesome collection !!! If you should ever want to part with your World of Wonder Talking Snoopy Store Display or know where I might locate one please contact me. Thank you so much for a trip down memory lane with my all time favorite Snoopy.
Mommmmm! Why do you always have to embarass me in front of my friends?
Sure, Mom spends about 90% of the money, but I spend 99% of the time and energy photographing, cataloging, building the website, responding to emails, sourcing new collectibles, sending packages, etc. And the dusting – don't forget the dusting!
Thanks Mom!
Boy, that's stunning. Congratulations.
hello..very Fun collection..would you be interested in selling the WHOLE collection..Thanks..Michael
I love this room! Thank you so much for posting these beautiful pics. I was looking up information on transforming my bedroom into a Snoopy Room and came across yours.
I found an old Snoopy Splash 'n play in the family garage when we were cleaning out. It was well used but is still in amazing condition. I saw the one in your room. I was hoping you could tell me the value? I cannot find it anywhere else on the web. It is very cool! Thanks!
hi love the room im a huge snoopy fan and have alot old things from schulz he loved his animation and so do i thanks for putting pics togethier so eveyone could this awesome room.
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The top moments from arguably the best power-hitting catcher captivated the hearts of baseball fans.
The top moments from arguably the best power-hitting catcher captivated the hearts of baseball fans.
Dodgers starter Kenta Maeda gave up 2 runs on 5 hits over 5.2 IP against the Cards. The team's well-used bullpen will have to pick up another 3.1 IP. Dodgers lead 7-2, T7.
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The Giants take a 2-1 lead in the 12th on Mac Williamson's single up the middle off Anthony Swarzak which scored Trevor Brown.
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The Yankees just left the bases loaded. Manager Joe Girardi's decision to bunt Jacoby Ellsbury, taking the bat out of hot hitter Carlos Beltran's hands could prove costly. On to the 11th ...
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By Jimmy
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Being a wildlife painter using casein paint, each of my creations is sketched using this Prismacolor Ebony pencil. I also do preliminary work up sketches in my sketch books and these pencils are great. Erase clean and no smearing very important and the value is great, the price is about half what you would expect to pay for a premium graphite pencil. They are also a slightly larger diameter so they fit in your fingers and feel great. The attached sketch is made using these premium pencils. Jimmy Springett wildlife painter
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By kim
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good drawing pencil. nice dark values. of course light values are difficult.
I would buy this product again
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Tips donʻt break easily. Itʻs great for drawing.
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I purchased these as a gift for a friend who does a lot of drawing. She normally gets them in a two pack and when I found them on Blick in the 12 pack at such a great price I could not resist. She was overwhelmed and has raved at the quality of the pencils and her enjoyment of drawing with them.
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I have been working as an art instuctor for 31 years.This is the pencil I always come back to.It is great for teaching gradation because using more or less pressure you can shade from light to dark.It's softness makes for a pleasing aesthetic experience besides.
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