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reflow

(1) The process of heating and melting the solder that has been screen printed onto a printed circuit board in order to bond chips and other components to the board. Surface mount chips (SMT) use the reflow method. Contrast with wave soldering. See also reflowable text.

(2) The changes in appearance, page layout or line breaks of text from an original document to a revised version, due to editing corrections. Reflow requires careful proofreading to be certain no material (including graphics) has been omitted in the updated document.
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As reflow was clearly achieved, and there was no evidence of cold solder joints, a recommended step was to decrease the TAL from 90 to 60 sec., which would improve wetting without a risk of incomplete solder reflow.
Solder bumping onto a socket is performed by printing paste or pin-transfer flux onto the pin head, followed by solder ball placement and reflow. The solder ball should form a bump by fully wetting the pin head, but wetting beyond the pin head can cause collapses.
Variation in joint volume occurs when one joint acquires more solder from an adjacent joint during reflow due to the paste being linked.
It is generally understood that exposure to reflow temperatures can degrade many materials used in various steps of electronics manufacturing.
Ancak TIMI 3 akim saglanan hastalarin %16' sinda da "no-reflow" saptanmis ve sol ventrikul fonksiyonunda iyilesmenin sadece reflow saglanan hastalarda oldugu gozlenmistir.
Also, PCB surface finishes will be different; depending on cost and board application, immersion silver or gold or OSP can be used to withstand the higher temperatures of the reflow oven.
The cause of this is probably not an insufficient reflow profile.
This example was found after reflow when the rest of the assembly had reflowed perfectly.
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