Surface mount technology breakaway self regulating temperature heater

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Soldering of surface mount connector terminals to contact pads on a circuit board is facilitated by configuring the terminals and their solder tails as spaced integrally-formed projections of a selectively actuable heater. Thermal energy developed in the heater is conducted along the projections to the solder tails to melt fusible conductive material (e.g. solder at the, connection sites). After cooling the projections are, severed from the heater. The terminals which are formed, at the distal ends of the projections are typically, supplied partially inserted in respective terminalreceiving passages of the connector housing. After the soldering operation, the terminals are fully inserted …