Drop Test

Test summary/features

Developments such as the rise of mobile electronic devices, growth of connections accompanying more advanced functions, and decrease in junction strength caused by finer junctions are resulting in more demanding environments for electronic devices in terms of reliability and quality assurance.
Mobile phones, laptops and other mobile devices are particularly prone to shocks from being dropped during use, creating the need to evaluate their environmental resistance beforehand by subjecting them to drops.

Test equipment

Tests are done in compliance with standards such as JEDEC (JEDEC JESD22-B111), which specify drop test methods for PCBs.
The samples subjected to these tests are surface-mount components commonly used in mobile equipment, such as BGA, LGA, CSP, TSOP and QFN devices. The test devices are mounted in daisy chain circuitry on test boards for evaluation.
Test samples are dropped 30 times or until reaching an 80% failure rate. A 1,500 G, 0.5 ms, half-sine shock pulse is generated as the drop condition. A detected instantaneous interruption of at least 1 µ sec is regarded as a failure.

Drop impact failure example