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Apparatus for assembling semiconductor devices
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corp
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Filing: 1990-01-04
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Granted: 1991-01-08
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Expires: 2010-01-04
Abstract
Abstract An apparatus for assembling semiconductor devices includes a transportation line for transporting partially fabricated articles such as lead frames with a semiconductor chip mounted thereon; a working unit disposed in the transportation line for processing the partially fabricated articles by wire bonding or die bonding; an inspection unit disposed separately from the transportation line; a delivery unit for extracting a processed article from the transportation line, moving the extracted worked article to an inspection section and returning the processed article to the transportation line after checking; and a stock unit for stocking the processed articles. In the inspection section, one of the processed articles selected for sampling inspection is placed on a support and is checked with a microscope. During checking, the support and the microscope can be moved relative to each other to enable observation of the whole of the selected article.
Inventors
- 👤 Hisao Masuda
- 👤 Hitoshi Fujimoto
- 👤 Shuichi Osaka
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-03 08:07
CPC Classifications
H; H10; H10P; H10P72/00; H10P72/04; H10P72/0438; H10P72/0446; G; G06; G06T; G06T7/00; G06T7/0002; H10P72/30; H10P72/32; H10P72/3212
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 9
Claim 1
Independent Claim
112 words
An apparatus for assembling semiconductor devices comprising: working means for processing partially fabricated articles from which semiconductor devices are being made; a transportation line for transporting the partially fabricated articles from said working means; checking means disposed outside said transportation line for checking articles processed by said working means for defects; and delivery means for selectively extracting from and returning to said transportation line a sample comprising less than one hundred percent of the articles processed by said working means, said delivery means moving the articles extracted from said transportation line to said checking means and returning the extracted articles to said transportation line from said checking means after checking for defects.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
112 words
An apparatus for assembling semiconductor devices comprising: working means for processing partially fabricated articles from which semiconductor devices are being made; a transportation line for transporting the partially fabricated articles from said working means; checking means disposed outside said transportation line for checking articles processed by said working means for defects; and delivery means for selectively extracting from and returning to said transportation line a sample comprising less than one hundred percent of the articles processed by said working means, said delivery means moving the articles extracted from said transportation line to said checking means and returning the extracted articles to said transportation line from said checking means after checking for defects.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
48 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said working means is a wire bonding unit, each of the worked articles being a lead frame on which a semiconductor chip is mounted and which is connected to the semiconductor chip by wire bonding effected by said wire bonding unit.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
36 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said working means is a die bonding unit, each of the processed articles being a lead frame on which a semiconductor chip is mounted by said die bonding unit.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
21 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, comprising stock means disposed in said transportation line for receiving and stocking the processed articles.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
20 words
An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said delivery means is disposed between said working means and said stock means.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
34 words
An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said checking means includes an inspection support for supporting at least one processed article, and a microscope for observing the processed article supported on said inspection support.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
33 words
An apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said microscope is movable in a longitudinal direction of a processed article supported on said inspection support in order to observe all of the processed article.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
35 words
An assembly apparatus according to claim 6, wherein said inspection support is movable in a longitudinal direction of a processed article supported on said inspection support in order to observe all of the processed article.
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