System for placement and mounting of fine pitch integrated circuit devices

Claim 1

Apparatus providing information from which alignment of an electronic component with respect to an electronic component receiving site may be effected, so that, once aligned, the component may be inserted thereinto, comprising: means having a field of view for providing a signal in response to optical energy imaged within its field of view representative of alignment of an electronic component in near placement position to an electronic component receiving site, the electronic component in near placement position to the electronic component site referred to as "object" hereafter; and means for optically imaging said object as a pair of first and second images within the field of view of the signal providing means, where said first and second images of said pair of images are respectively representative of a different preselected portion of said object, and where each said different preselected portion of said object, of which said first and second images of said pair of images are respectively representative, is selected to be split a portion that is less than the entire object but a portion from which said signal representative of alignment may be provided by said signal providing means; wherein said optically imaging means is an optical element positioned in an optical path defined between said signal providing means and the electronic component in near placement position to the electronic component receiving site and said optical element comprises a mirror.