Patents by Inventor Yoshio Komoto

Yoshio Komoto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8749260
    Abstract: Provided is a test wafer unit that tests a plurality of devices under test formed on a wafer under test, the test wafer unit comprising a plurality of test circuits that are formed on the same semiconductor wafer, where a plurality of types of the test circuits having different functions are provided for each device under test; and a selecting section that selects which type of test circuit is electrically connected to each pad of a device under test. Therefore, the test wafer unit can select the test circuit corresponding to testing content to be performed and connect this test circuit to the device under test to perform testing on a variety of devices under test or to perform a variety of tests on a device under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Tokunaga, Yoshio Komoto
  • Patent number: 8667669
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to eliminate wafer testing. Provided is a manufacturing apparatus comprising a detecting section that detects a position of a device terminal of a device; a generating section that generates a substrate-side terminal, which connects to the device terminal, on a substrate at a position corresponding to the device terminal; and a mounting section that mounts the device on the substrate and connects the device terminal to the substrate-side terminal. The detecting section captures an image of the device and detects the position of the device terminal based on the captured image, and the generating section prints a pattern of the substrate-side terminal on the substrate at a position corresponding to the device terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Komoto
  • Patent number: 8652857
    Abstract: Provided is a test apparatus for testing a device under test, including a dicing section that dices a wafer on which a plurality of devices under test are formed to separate each of the devices under test, a test packaging section that packages each of the devices under test resulting from the dicing by the dicing section in an individual test package, a testing section that tests the devices under test packaged in the test packages, a removing section that removes the devices under test that have been tested from the test packages, and a commercial packaging section that packages the devices under test removed from the test packages in commercial packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Komoto
  • Patent number: 8624620
    Abstract: A test system for testing a plurality of semiconductor chips formed on a semiconductor wafer includes: a test wafer on which a plurality of test circuits corresponding to the plurality of semiconductor chips are formed, each test circuit testing a corresponding one of the plurality of semiconductor chips based on test data provided to the test circuit; where each of the plurality of test circuits includes a nonvolatile and rewritable pattern memory for storing the test data such as pattern data and sequence data, and the test system writes the same test data to all the plurality of test circuits in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo Tokunaga, Yoshio Komoto
  • Patent number: 8427187
    Abstract: There is provided a testing system for testing a plurality of semiconductor chips formed on a single semiconductor wafer. The testing system includes a wafer substrate, a plurality of wafer connector terminals that are provided on the wafer substrate in such a manner that one or more wafer connector terminals correspond to each of the semiconductor chips, where each wafer connector terminal is to be electrically connected to an input/output terminal of a corresponding semiconductor chip, a plurality of circuit units that are provided on the wafer substrate in such a manner that one or more circuit units corresponds to each of the semiconductor chips, where each circuit unit generates a test signal to be used for testing a corresponding semiconductor chip and supplies the test signal to the corresponding semiconductor chip to test the corresponding semiconductor chip, and a controller that generates a control signal used to control the plurality of circuit units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Komoto, Yoshiharu Umemura
  • Patent number: 8410807
    Abstract: A probe apparatus includes a wire substrate with terminals; a wafer tray forming a hermetically sealed space with the wire substrate and for mounting a semiconductor wafer; a probe wafer provided between the wire substrate and the wafer tray, having an apparatus connection terminal electrically connected to a terminal of the wire substrate and wafer connection terminals electrically connected to the semiconductor chips respectively and collectively; an apparatus anisotropic conductive sheet provided between the wire substrate and the probe wafer; a wafer anisotropic conductive sheet provided between the probe wafer and the semiconductor wafer; and a decompressing section that decompresses the hermetically sealed space between the wire substrate and the wafer tray, to cause the wafer tray to move to a predetermined position from the wire substrate, to electrically connect the wire substrate and the probe wafer, and to electrically connect the probe wafer and the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Umemura, Yoshio Komoto
  • Patent number: 8289040
    Abstract: A wafer unit for testing is electrically connected to a plurality of chips to be tested formed on a wafer to be tested, the wafer unit for testing including: a connecting wafer provided to face the wafer to be tested, and to be electrically connected to each of the plurality of chips to be tested; and a temperature distribution adjusting section provided on the connecting wafer, and to adjust a temperature distribution of the wafer to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Komoto, Yoshiharu Umemura, Shinichi Hamaguchi, Yasushi Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 8253428
    Abstract: A probe apparatus exchanging signals with a target device, includes: a contact section electrically connected to the target device by contacting a terminal of the target device; a non-contact section that exchanges signals with the target device in a state not contacting the terminal of the target device; and a retaining section that retains the contact section and the non-contact section, in such a manner that a relative position between the contact section and the non-contact section in a connection direction connecting the non-contact section and a region corresponding to the target device is displaceable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshio Komoto
  • Publication number: 20120214261
    Abstract: Provided is a test apparatus for testing a device under test, comprising a dicing section that dices a wafer on which a plurality of devices under test are formed to separate each of the devices under test; a test packaging section that packages each of the devices under test resulting from the dicing by the dicing section in an individual test package; a testing section that tests the devices under test packaged in the test packages; a removing section that removes the devices under test that have been tested from the test packages; and a commercial packaging section that packages the devices under test removed from the test packages in commercial packages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshio Komoto
  • Publication number: 20120205143
    Abstract: It is an objective of the present invention to eliminate wafer testing. Provided is a manufacturing apparatus comprising a detecting section that detects a position of a device terminal of a device; a generating section that generates a substrate-side terminal, which connects to the device terminal, on a substrate at a position corresponding to the device terminal; and a mounting section that mounts the device on the substrate and connects the device terminal to the substrate-side terminal. The detecting section captures an image of the device and detects the position of the device terminal based on the captured image, and the generating section prints a pattern of the substrate-side terminal on the substrate at a position corresponding to the device terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshio KOMOTO
  • Patent number: 8134379
    Abstract: A probe wafer electrically connected to a semiconductor wafer on which a plurality of semiconductor chips are formed includes: a wafer substrate for pitch conversion including a wafer connection surface and an apparatus connection surface opposing the wafer connection surface; a plurality of wafer connection terminals formed on the wafer connection surface of the wafer substrate for pitch conversion, at least one wafer connection terminal provided for each of the semiconductor chips and electrically connected to an input/output terminal of the corresponding semiconductor chip; a plurality of apparatus connection terminals formed on the apparatus connection surface of the wafer substrate in one-to-one relation with the plurality of wafer connection terminals at an interval different from an interval of the wafer connection terminals, to be electrically connected to an external apparatus; and a plurality of transfer paths, each electrically connecting a corresponding wafer connection terminal to an apparatus co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Advantest Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshio Komoto, Yoshiharu Umemura
  • Publication number: 20110133768
    Abstract: Provided is a test wafer unit that tests a plurality of devices under test formed on a wafer under test, the test wafer unit comprising a plurality of test circuits that are formed on the same semiconductor wafer, where a plurality of types of the test circuits having different functions are provided for each device under test; and a selecting section that selects which type of test circuit is electrically connected to each pad of a device under test. Therefore, the test wafer unit can select the test circuit corresponding to testing content to be performed and connect this test circuit to the device under test to perform testing on a variety of devices under test or to perform a variety of tests on a device under test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo TOKUNAGA, Yoshio KOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110121848
    Abstract: There is provided a testing system for testing a plurality of semiconductor chips formed on a single semiconductor wafer. The testing system includes a wafer substrate, a plurality of wafer connector terminals that are provided on the wafer substrate in such a manner that one or more wafer connector terminals correspond to each of the semiconductor chips, where each wafer connector terminal is to be electrically connected to an input/output terminal of a corresponding semiconductor chip, a plurality of circuit units that are provided on the wafer substrate in such a manner that one or more circuit units corresponds to each of the semiconductor chips, where each circuit unit generates a test signal to be used for testing a corresponding semiconductor chip and supplies the test signal to the corresponding semiconductor chip to test the corresponding semiconductor chip, and a controller that generates a control signal used to control the plurality of circuit units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio KOMOTO, Yoshiharu UMEMURA
  • Publication number: 20110115519
    Abstract: A test system for testing a plurality of semiconductor chips formed on a semiconductor wafer includes: a test wafer on which a plurality of test circuits corresponding to the plurality of semiconductor chips are formed, each test circuit testing a corresponding one of the plurality of semiconductor chips based on test data provided to the test circuit; where each of the plurality of test circuits includes a nonvolatile and rewritable pattern memory for storing the test data such as pattern data and sequence data, and the test system writes the same test data to all the plurality of test circuits in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuo TOKUNAGA, Yoshio KOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110109337
    Abstract: A probe wafer electrically connected to a semiconductor wafer on which a plurality of semiconductor chips are formed includes: a wafer substrate for pitch conversion including a wafer connection surface and an apparatus connection surface opposing the wafer connection surface; a plurality of wafer connection terminals formed on the wafer connection surface of the wafer substrate for pitch conversion, at least one wafer connection terminal provided for each of the semiconductor chips and electrically connected to an input/output terminal of the corresponding semiconductor chip; a plurality of apparatus connection terminals formed on the apparatus connection surface of the wafer substrate in one-to-one relation with the plurality of wafer connection terminals at an interval different from an interval of the wafer connection terminals, to be electrically connected to an external apparatus; and a plurality of transfer paths, each electrically connecting a corresponding wafer connection terminal to an apparatus co
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio KOMOTO, Yoshiharu UMEMURA
  • Publication number: 20110095777
    Abstract: A wafer unit for testing is electrically connected to a plurality of chips to be tested formed on a wafer to be tested, the wafer unit for testing including: a connecting wafer provided to face the wafer to be tested, and to be electrically connected to each of the plurality of chips to be tested; and a temperature distribution adjusting section provided on the connecting wafer, and to adjust a temperature distribution of the wafer to be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: April 28, 2011
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshio KOMOTO, Yoshiharu UMEMURA, Shinichi HAMAGUCHI, Yasushi KAWAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20110074456
    Abstract: A probe apparatus exchanging signals with a target device, includes: a contact section electrically connected to the target device by contacting a terminal of the target device; a non-contact section that exchanges signals with the target device in a state not contacting the terminal of the target device; and a retaining section that retains the contact section and the non-contact section, in such a manner that a relative position between the contact section and the non-contact section in a connection direction connecting the non-contact section and a region corresponding to the target device is displaceable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshio KOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20110062979
    Abstract: A probe apparatus includes a wire substrate with terminals; a wafer tray forming a hermetically sealed space with the wire substrate and for mounting a semiconductor wafer; a probe wafer provided between the wire substrate and the wafer tray, having an apparatus connection terminal electrically connected to a terminal of the wire substrate and wafer connection terminals electrically connected to the semiconductor chips respectively and collectively; an apparatus anisotropic conductive sheet provided between the wire substrate and the probe wafer; a wafer anisotropic conductive sheet provided between the probe wafer and the semiconductor wafer; and a decompressing section that decompresses the hermetically sealed space between the wire substrate and the wafer tray, to cause the wafer tray to move to a predetermined position from the wire substrate, to electrically connect the wire substrate and the probe wafer, and to electrically connect the probe wafer and the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiharu UMEMURA, Yoshio KOMOTO
  • Patent number: 5740086
    Abstract: A semiconductor test system for testing a semiconductor device by directly using CAD data produced for the design of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Advantest Corp.
    Inventor: Yoshio Komoto