The present disclosure discloses a process for etching a circuit board with alkaline tetraamminecopper (II) sulfate, including an etching solution for etching the circuit board coated with an etching-resist metal layer, where the etching solution includes tetraamminecopper (II) sulfate, a complexed ammonia supply source, and a formate supply source; and the tetraamminecopper (II) sulfate serves as a copper etching agent to etch the circuit board, and the copper etching agent in the etching solution is regenerated by a copper etching agent-oxidation regeneration reaction supply source to maintain an etching rate. The present disclosure solves the production process problem that an etching solution causes corrosion to an etching-resist silver or tin layer in the prior art.

A snorkel for determining the presence of contaminants and electrical properties of a component on a PCB is provided. The snorkel includes a housing having a plurality of ribs that are each configured to move between a first position and a second position, a fluid inlet port, and a fluid outlet port. The snorkel also has a first flexible seal that defines a fluid boundary and a second flexible seal that defines a vacuum boundary. The fluid inlet/outlet ports define a fluid channel within the fluid boundary. The first flexible seal is within the vacuum boundary such that the fluid boundary is disposed within the vacuum boundary. The snorkel also has a plurality of electrical probes that can employ a four-point probe method where a tip of each electrical probe of the plurality of probes is disposed within the fluid channel.

The objective of the present invention is to provide a precision filter which is suitable for filtering a circuit board production process liquid, which is extremely excellent in the resistance to both a strongly acidic cleaning liquid and a strongly alkaline cleaning liquid and which is extremely excellent in the capability of removing an extremely fine foreign substance. Also, the objective of the present invention is to provide a precision filter cartridge which is used for a circuit board production process liquid and which includes the precision filter. Further, the objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing a circuit board using the process liquid filtered by the precision filter for a circuit board production process liquid or the precision filter cartridge for a circuit board production process liquid. The precision filter to filtrate a process liquid for producing a circuit board according to the present invention is characterized in comprising a tetrafluoroethylene copolymer (I) having an amino group in a side chain.

A wet treatment apparatus is configured to treat a continuously moving sheet-shaped workpiece and includes a wet treatment tank including a side surface portion having a first slit, a pair of rolls located outside the wet treatment tank, the pair of rolls being spaced apart from the first slit and being arranged in such a manner as to nip the workpiece in a transverse direction, and a pair of treatment-liquid shield members disposed on a side opposite to a side on which the wet treatment tank is disposed with the pair of rolls interposed between the pair of treatment-liquid shield members and the wet treatment tank in a movement direction of the workpiece. In a direction parallel to a width of the first slit, a width of the shield member is larger than a width of the roll.

A reel-to-reel circuit board manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a material which is moved while being wound and unwound by an uncoiler and a recoiler, and a clamp that is arranged so that a width direction of the material matches a lengthwise direction thereof, and is configured to fix the material, wherein the clamp includes a first clamp and a second clamp formed on opposite ends thereof, and a first-and-second clamp linkage formed between the first and second clamps.