Patent portfolio · 2015 - 2019

Sixteen granted patents behind the mechanics

Conveying, clamping, conductivity, spray and filtration - the parts of a plating line that determine whether it runs for fifteen years or for fifteen months.

16

Granted utility models

7

In force through 2028

2

Holding companies

4

Years of filings

A plating line is a mechanical system before it is an electrochemical one. If the flight bar drops a panel, the rack arcs, or the conveyor loses registration, no amount of rectifier tuning recovers the yield.

These patents were filed between 2015 and 2018 by our Shenzhen and Huizhou engineering teams, and they map almost exactly onto the parts of the machine that customers end up maintaining: how a panel is clamped and carried, how current reaches a moving rack without arcing, how solution is sprayed and filtered.

Two of them - the plating-solution spray device and the plating-solution filtration device - are the earliest record of the side-spray architecture that our high-aspect-ratio gantry lines now use in production.

Granted patents

Cert. no.TitlePatent no.FiledGrantedHolderStatus
8718730Material clamping structure and panel conveying system
一种物料夹持结构及板状物料输送系统
ZL 2018 2 1394392.42018-08-282019-04-12Huizhou Commend MachineryIn force
8719203Flight-bar device for a PCB processing line
一种用于PCB板加工线的飞靶装置
ZL 2018 2 1394367.62018-08-282019-04-12Huizhou Commend MachineryIn force
8719208Panel conveying system
一种板状物料输送系统
ZL 2018 2 1395515.62018-08-282019-04-12Huizhou Commend MachineryIn force
8723438Load-carrier displacement structure and panel conveying system
一种载料位移结构及板状物料输送系统
ZL 2018 2 1396177.82018-08-282019-04-12Huizhou Commend MachineryIn force
8772355Panel loading structure and panel conveying system
一种板状物料上料结构及板状物料输送系统
ZL 2018 2 1394394.32018-08-282019-04-26Huizhou Commend MachineryIn force
8772357Chain counterweight mechanism and panel conveying system
一种链条配重机构及板状物料输送系统
ZL 2018 2 1395493.32018-08-282019-04-26Huizhou Commend MachineryIn force
8776750Lateral displacement device for a PCB processing line
一种用于PCB板加工线的横向位移装置
ZL 2018 2 1396189.02018-08-282019-04-26Huizhou Commend MachineryIn force
5588620Continuous plating drive mechanism
一种连续电镀传动机构
ZL 2016 2 0288306.62016-04-082016-10-05Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
5589096Conductive mechanism for a plating rack
一种电镀挂架导电机构
ZL 2016 2 0288307.02016-04-082016-10-05Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
5659694Plating hoist
一种电镀吊车
ZL 2016 2 0544103.92016-06-072016-11-16Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
5763734Plating-rack transfer mechanism
一种电镀挂架传送机构
ZL 2016 2 0662238.52016-06-292016-12-07Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
5735250Roll-to-roll plating forced-contact conductive mechanism
一种卷对卷电镀强压式导电机构
ZL 2016 2 0662441.22016-06-292016-12-07Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
6044445Plating rack
一种电镀挂架
ZL 2016 2 0662893.02016-06-292017-04-05Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
4739223Plating structure
一种电镀结构
ZL 2015 2 0422589.42015-06-182015-11-11Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
5132714Plating-solution spray device
电镀液喷射装置
ZL 2015 2 0928757.72015-11-202016-04-13Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed
5129737Plating-solution filtration device
电镀液过滤装置
ZL 2015 2 0928758.12015-11-202016-04-13Commend Machinery (Shenzhen)Term completed

Chinese utility models run for ten years from the filing date. The seven patents filed in August 2018 are in force to August 2028, subject to annuity payment. The nine filed between 2015 and 2016 have reached the end of their term and the technology is now in the public domain - we list them because they document how the current design evolved, not as an exclusivity claim. Full certificates are available on request.

What these patents cover, in plain terms

  • Panel handling - clamping, loading, lateral displacement and chain counterweight systems that keep a 700 mm panel registered through a multi-tank line.
  • Conductivity - rack and roll-to-roll contact mechanisms designed to carry pulse current without arcing or voltage drop at the contact point.
  • Fluid delivery - spray and filtration devices, the origin of the cross-nozzle side-spray arrangement used on high-aspect-ratio lines today.
  • Transport - flight-bar and continuous drive mechanisms, the difference between a line that transfers in 8 seconds and one that transfers in 20.

Where these mechanisms are used in a current product, the relevant page is linked below.

Gantry plating line - cross-nozzle side spray and 3-D oscillation
All 78 equipment models
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