Different Components Patents (Class 29/836)
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Patent number: 7299545Abstract: Positioning recognition marks are read by movable recognition device for positioning objects to be bonded to each other. An alignment method includes a step of reading the recognition marks during movement of the recognition device before its complete stop, and a step of identifying absolute positions of the recognition marks by correcting the mark recognition positions having been read based on a position feedback signal of the moving recognition device. A mounting method using the alignment method is also disclosed. It is possible to maintain a high alignment accuracy, eliminate necessity of assuring a settling time for complete stop of the movable recognition device, and significantly reduce the alignment time and mounting tact.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2003Date of Patent: November 27, 2007Assignee: Toray Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Yamauchi, Mikio Kawakami
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Patent number: 7288437Abstract: An improved method of forming an electrode pattern on a substrate is described. The substrate is coated with a first conductive film and subjected to baking. On the first conductive film is then overlied a second conductive film which mends possible fissures of the first conductive film which, besides, would produce open circuits in the pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akira Mase
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Patent number: 7281323Abstract: A method for mounting electronic components is provided. The method comprises: rotating at least one rotation housing, and thereby correcting positions of a plurality of nozzle spindles depending on specified absorption positions of the electronic components; absorbing the electronic components by descending at least one nozzle spindle; rotating at least one rotation housing and rotating nozzle spindles to which the electronic components are absorbed, thereby correcting positions of the electronic components absorbed to the nozzle spindles depending on an inclination angle of specified positions for mounting the electronic components to a printed circuit board; moving the absorbed electronic components over the printed circuit board; and mounting the absorbed electronic components to the specified mounting positions of the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.Inventor: Young-soo Hwang
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Patent number: 7269897Abstract: A manufacturing process of a stacked semiconductor device, comprising the following steps: integrating a plurality of electronic devices in a plurality of active areas realized in a semiconductor wafer; distributing an adhesive layer on active areas, splitting the semiconductor wafer into a plurality of first dies, each one comprising at least one of the active areas; mounting the plurality of first dies, which are already equipped with the adhesive layer, on a support; and mounting a plurality of second dies on the adhesive layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2003Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.Inventor: Giovanni Frezza
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Patent number: 7222414Abstract: A system for transferring electrical components. The system may comprise a plurality of electrical components. Each of the components may include leads and a physically asymmetric fiducial marker that structurally alters a physical appearance of the components. The system may also comprise a nest having a nest surface that defines a recess shaped to receive any one of the plurality of components only when the component is oriented such that the component's fiducial marker is received by a corresponding asymmetric portion of the nest surface. In addition, the system may comprise a component feed assembly for feeding the plurality of components to the nest, a component alignment detector, and a pick and place machine having a movable pick head. The movable pick head may have access to the component feed assembly and the recess of the nest.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2005Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Darryl L. Gamel, Kreg W. Hines
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Patent number: 7210222Abstract: The present invention provides a power supply control method which is executed by the electronic component mounting apparatus. A drive power source and a control power source are separately connected and shut-off in accordance with a command from a control device to each of component feed drive parts for driving component feed devices, a component transfer drive device for driving a component transfer device, and a circuit board positioning drive device for driving a circuit board positioning device. The control device detects an individual occurrence of a halt condition of each of constituent parts of an electronic component mounting apparatus and shuts off a drive power source to the drive device in the halt condition. Thus, wasteful power consumption is eliminated and production is continued with a necessary minimum power.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keizo Izumida, Takeshi Takeda, Kazuyuki Nakano
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Patent number: 7200925Abstract: Disclosed is a component mounting method. Moved in first and second orthogonal directions is a first mounting head section having first nozzles. The first mounting head is rotated such that the first nozzles rotate and successively pickup components from a first component supply table arranged on one side of a board transfer path. These components are then successively mounted onto a board positioned in the board transfer path. Moved in third and fourth orthogonal directions is a second mounting head section having second nozzles. The second mounting head section is rotated such that the second nozzles rotate and successively pickup components from a second component supply table arranged on an opposite side of the board transfer path. These components are then successively mounted onto the board while positioned in the board transfer path.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2006Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Matsushita Electric, Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kanji Hata, Noriaki Yoshida
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Patent number: 7188409Abstract: The present invention features a method wherein a component in a multi-head component placement machine is rejected during the placement cycle. A component is imaged and the image processed using an automated vision system. The image processing determines whether the component is placeable based upon a comparison of the component image to preprogrammed mechanical parameters for the component. A non-placeable component is rejected into a reject station, which is contiguous with the head. Because a component can be rejected during the placement cycle, there is no slowdown of the placement machine cycle rate.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Universal Instruments Corp.Inventor: Koenraad Gieskes
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Patent number: 7181833Abstract: The invention provides a mounting method capable of coping with high density mounting, narrower pitch mounting, cavity mounting and the like. In this method, displacement amounts of a chip that is picked up from a wafer by a pick-up nozzle to be held by the pick-up nozzle, with respect to a reference attitude, are obtained, and when the chip is delivered to a mounting nozzle for actually mounting the chip onto a substrate, the displacement amounts are corrected while taking the displacement amounts into consideration, so that the mounting nozzle always holds the chip in a fixed attitude.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2004Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Assignee: TDK CorporationInventors: Toru Mizuno, Tomomi Asakura, Masatoshi Ito, Masaaki Kaneko, Toshinobu Miyagoshi
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Patent number: 7137194Abstract: The apparatus and method of the present invention relates use a dry atmosphere in the component storage portion of the surface mount device placement machine. The dry atmosphere provides the benefit of eliminating the baking process and other moisture management issues. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a component placement machine for placing components on printed circuit boards includes a component storage area, a component placement system for taking components from the component storage area and placing the components on the printed circuit boards, an enclosure surrounding the component storage area, and a dry gas delivery system for delivery of a dry gas to the storage area to prevent moisture from being absorbed by the components.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2005Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignees: Air Liquide America LP, American Air Liquide, Inc.Inventors: Martin Theriault, Stephane Rabia, Jason Uner
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Patent number: 7069648Abstract: Disclosed is a component mounting method. Moved in first and second orthogonal directions is a first mounting head section having first nozzles. The first mounting head is rotated such that the first nozzles rotate and successively pickup components from a first component supply table arranged on one side of a board transfer path. These components are then successively mounted onto a board positioned in the board transfer path. Moved in third and fourth orthogonal directions is a second mounting head section having second nozzles. The second mounting head section is rotated such that the second nozzles rotate and successively pickup components from a second component supply table arranged on an opposite side of the board transfer path. These components are then successively mounted onto the board while positioned in the board transfer path.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2004Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kanji Hata, Noriaki Yoshida
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Patent number: 7047632Abstract: An electronic component mounting apparatus removes an electronic component supplied to a part feeder in face-up status and mounts it to a board. A flip-chip supplied from a first holding table is removed and flipped over by a take-out head and then delivered to a mounting head, which mounts the component on the board. A die supplied from a second holding table is picked up directly and mounted to the board by the mounting head. This structure allows a single mounting apparatus to perform both die bonding and flip-chip bonding.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2002Date of Patent: May 23, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kazuo Arikado
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Patent number: 7032299Abstract: An apparatus for mounting electronic parts and a method of mounting electronic parts capable of effectively performing image capturing at the time of position recognition of the electronic parts. In the apparatus, when images of electronic parts are taken for position recognition of the parts in the mounting of a plurality of the electronic parts held by a mounting head on a circuit board, it is adapted such that pixel signals are output only from specific necessary pixels. More specifically, pixel selecting information for allowing image signals to be selectively output from a plurality of specific pixels of a photodetecting section (10) of a CMOS area sensor is generated based on mounting schedule data (16C) related to a mounting sequence of the electronic parts and part data of the electronic parts stored in data storage (16). A pixel selector (11) is operated in accordance with the pixel selecting information, and thus the image signals are output from the selected specific pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masayuki Arase, Takayuki Hatase
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Patent number: 7020956Abstract: An occurrence of component lack at a component arrangement position, designated by a mounting program, of a component feed part, which feeds components to be mounted, is determined. Whether a spare component for the lacking component to be mounted is present in a spare component feed area of the component feed part is determined, and supply of the component to be mounted from a designated component arrangement position of the component feed part is switched to supply of the spare component from the spare component feed area.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2002Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Kuribayashi, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Akihiko Wachi
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Patent number: 6978537Abstract: A charged species source and a charged species drain are provided. A moveable component is positioned proximate to the charged species source and the charged species drain. A first protrusion and a second protrusion are provided in contact with the moveable component, wherein at least one of the moveable component, the first protrusion and the second protrusion have a size of a micrometer scale or smaller. The moveable component is moved relative to the charged species source and the charged species drain to transfer electrical charge between the source and the drain.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Gary A. Gibson
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Patent number: 6973717Abstract: A semiconductor device in chip format having a chip which has at least one first insulating layer and electrical connection pads free of the insulating layer is described. On the first insulating layer, interconnects run from the electrical connection pads to base regions of external connection elements. A further applied insulating layer is provided with openings leading from the outside to the base regions of the external connection elements. In the openings there is a conductive adhesive, onto which small balls which are metallic at least on the outside are placed. The semiconductor element can also contain a solder paste instead of a conductive adhesive in the openings, and metallized small plastic balls are placed onto the solder paste. The invention furthermore relates to methods for producing the semiconductor device described.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2004Date of Patent: December 13, 2005Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Hans-Jürgen Hacke, Klaus-Peter Galuschki
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Patent number: 6971162Abstract: An exemplary system and method for providing differential adjustment of the height of a multilayer substrate in localized areas for improved Q-factor performance of RF devices is disclosed as comprising inter alia: a multilayer substrate (200); an RF component (210) embedded in the substrate (200); a surface mounted component (220); and an RF shield (260) disposed next to the surface mounted component (220), wherein the height of the shield (260) does not extend substantially beyond the height of the surface mounted component (220). Disclosed features and specifications may be variously controlled, configured, adapted or otherwise optionally modified to further improve or otherwise optimize Q, RF performance and/or material characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: John C. Estes, Rodolfo Lucero, Anthony M. Pavio
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Patent number: 6938335Abstract: A component mounting method recognizes reference marks on a printed circuit board and an electronic component, and uses these reference marks to determine a shift between a position of the circuit board and a position of the electronic component. This shift is corrected and then the electronic component is mounted to the printed circuit board such that electrical connecting portions of the circuit board are connected to electrical connecting portions of the electronic component. The reference marks are formed simultaneously with corresponding electrical connecting portions via a mask, such that in order to accurately position the electrical connecting portions, it is only necessary to accurately relatively position the reference marks.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Kuribayashi, Kazuyuki Nakano
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Patent number: 6928707Abstract: One aspect of the invention is embodied in a machine for wrapping a heater wire around a cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL). The machine includes means for holding a CCFL, means for guiding a heater wire, and means for moving the holding means in relation to the guiding means for the purpose of wrapping a heater wire around a CCFL that is held by the holding means. Another aspect of the invention is embodied in a CCFL wrapped with a heater wire. The process used to wrap the CCFL involves inserting the CCFL into a socket of an automated machine and feeding the heater wire into a heater wire guide of the automated machine. The socket is then moved in relation to the heater wire guide, by means of the automated machine, for the purpose of wrapping the heater wire around the CCFL.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2002Date of Patent: August 16, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Todd J Anderson, Nigel Meing-Fai Cheung
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Patent number: 6910265Abstract: A pick and place system comprises a pick and place nozzle. The nozzle includes a groove comprising tapered sides that feed into a depression at the bottom of the groove, and a plurality of air holes configured to allow air suction to attract a component and hold it in the groove in such a manner as to ensure that the component can be accurately placed. The system also comprises a tray configured to hold a plurality of components to be picked up and placed using the pick and place nozzle. The tray can be configured to hold the components in a precise location within the tray.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Kyocera Wireless Corp.Inventor: Miguel A. Nieves
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Patent number: 6895661Abstract: A component transfer apparatus is provided. The component transfer apparatus comprises a pick and place machine having a component feed source and a movable pick head having access to the component feed source. A component alignment detector is directed toward the component feed source and a controller is coupled to the component alignment detector. The controller contains instructions which, when executed by the controller, cause the controller to compare the detected component alignment with a known component alignment.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1999Date of Patent: May 24, 2005Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Darryl Gamel, Kreg W. Hines
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Patent number: 6888072Abstract: A fixture with movable pawls and positioning walls is attached to a circuit board. An electronic component is inserted into the fixture from its upper side. Since the movable pawls move outward due to their slopes, the electronic component is allowed to fit between the positioning walls. After the fitting of the electronic component, the movable pawls hold the sides of the upper face of the electronic component and the positioning walls are in contact with the peripheral walls of the electronic component. Bumps provided on electrode pads of the electronic component are connected to electrodes on the circuit board. Thus, the electronic component can be mounted using the flip chip technique. In addition, the electronic component can be removed easily by moving the movable pawls even after being mounted.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2001Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahide Tsukamoto, Kazufumi Yamaguchi, Takeshi Shimamoto, Fumikazu Tateishi
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Patent number: 6880242Abstract: A circuit protection device for protection of sensitive components during high energy radiation sterilization that includes a support substrate and a protective housing. The substrate supports the sensitive components. The protective housing is hermetically coupled to the support substrate to seal the sensitive components within the protective housing. Preferably, the protective housing stops high energy used in the high energy sterilization from damaging the sensitive components from a predetermined exposure level of high energy sterilization. The circuit protection device may further include a protective conductor that is coupled to the support substrate on a side which is opposite the protective housing to prevent high energy from entering the opposite side of the support substrate.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2003Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: MiniMed Inc.Inventors: William P. Van Antwerp, Sheana Karre, Adrian Prokop, Sara Akiko Stinson, Jason Fong, James J. Rosenberg
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Patent number: 6877220Abstract: An occurrence component lack at a component arrangement position, designated by a mounting program, of a component feed part, which feeds components to be mounted, is determined. Whether a spare component for the lacking component to be mounted is present in a spare component feed area of the component feed part is determined, and supply of the component to be mounted from a designated component arrangement position of the component feed part is switched to supply of the spare component from the spare component feed area.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 1999Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Kuribayashi, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Akihiko Wachi
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Patent number: 6864572Abstract: A heat sink base (10) includes a rectangular body (11) made of aluminum and a circular core (12) made of copper. The body defines a circular through opening (111). A diameter of the opening is slightly less than a diameter of the core. The core is attached within the body according to the following steps: a) pressing the core into the through opening of the body; b) stamping the core to cause it to plastically deform in radial directions and thereby become firmly combined with the body; and c) removing any burring of the core flowing out from the opening such that surfaces of the core and the body are coplanarly smooth.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2001Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Cheng Chi Lee, Xue Jin Fu, Zheng Liang Liu, Wen Qiu Deng
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Patent number: 6779259Abstract: Two or more parts feeding sections are provided, and in each of the parts feeding sections, identical combinations of parts cassettes aligned in the same arrangement are prepared. If one or more type of components that are to be picked up at one time by a plurality of suction nozzles is exhausted, the mounting head moves to the other parts feeding section, which provides the same combination of components for all the suction nozzles to pick up the components at one time, so that the mounting operation can be continued without stopping the apparatus for replenishment of components.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2002Date of Patent: August 24, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Mimura, Hirofumi Obara, Hiroshi Ogata, Chikashi Konishi
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Patent number: 6757965Abstract: A method of installing a land grid array (LGA) multi-chip module assembly to a printed wiring board is provided. A module holding member is attached to the printed wiring board. The module assembly is inserted into the module holding member. The module assembly is retained to the module holding member, which facilitates mechanical actuation of the LGA compression hardware. The module assembly is electrically grounded to the printed wiring board while the module assembly is retained to the module holding member.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2003Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John L. Colbert, John S. Corbin, Jr., Roger D. Hamilton, Danny E. Massey, Arvind K. Sinha, Charles C. Stratton
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Patent number: 6735856Abstract: The present invention includes a component placement apparatus that can obtain information on the presence/absence of hold members inexpensively and easily, and a component placement method carried out by the component placement apparatus. A replacement hold member detector for detecting the presence/absence of replacement hold members at a hold member change part is installed at a placement head. The presence/absence is detected by moving an XY-robot so as to scan the hold member change part equipped with the replacement hold member detector. At the same time, type information attached to the replacement hold members is rendered readable by the replacement hold member detector. One replacement hold member detector is enough according to the apparatus and method of the present invention. The presence/absence information of the hold members can be obtained inexpensively and easily.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 1999Date of Patent: May 18, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoyuki Kitamura, Osamu Okuda, Noriaki Yoshida, Akira Kabeshita
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Patent number: 6725532Abstract: A plurality of self-propelled system heads (5) are made to independently travel along a closed-loop travel track (6) in a manner that the heads do not interfere with each other by controlling respective drive devices (4). Components (2) from a component supply device (8) are held by component holding members (3) of the heads, and thereafter, the components held by the component holding members are mounted on boards (1) positioned by board positioning devices (7).Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Okada, Seiichi Mogi, Hiroshi Ota, Hirokazu Honkawa, Makito Seno, Kunio Sakurai, Ken Takano
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Patent number: 6711811Abstract: A method and apparatus to mount a uniform force hydrostatic bolster plate to a substrate. One embodiment of the invention involves a method to assemble a uniform force hydrostatic bolster plate on a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: James David Hensley, Michael Alan Brooks
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Patent number: 6701611Abstract: The present invention provides an electronic component mounting apparatus which can reduce a consumption power amount in comparison with the background art, and a power supply control method which is executed by the electronic component mounting apparatus. A drive power source and a control power source are separately connected and shut-off in accordance with a command from a control device to each of component feed drive parts for driving component feed devices, a component transfer drive device for driving a component transfer device, and a circuit board positioning drive device for driving a circuit board positioning device. The control device detects an individual occurrence of halt condition of each of constitution parts of an electronic component mounting apparatus and shuts off the drive power source to the drive device in the halt condition. Thus, a wasteful power consumption is eliminated and the production is continued with a necessary minimum power.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keizo Izumida, Takeshi Takeda, Kazuyuki Nakano
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Patent number: 6691400Abstract: A compact and high-speed automatic electronic parts mounting apparatus is provided which includes first and second parts feeders, first and second mounting heads, a printed board-holding table, and a controller. Each of the first and second parts feeders includes a plurality of cassettes storing therein electronic parts and having pick-up stations. The second parts feeder is arranged at a preselected interval away from the first parts feeder in a first direction. Each of the first and second mounting heads is movable in the first direction and includes a plurality of pick-up nozzles movable in a vertical direction for picking up the electronic parts from the pick-up stations of the cassettes. The printed board-holding table is disposed within the preselected interval between the first and second parts feeders so as to move in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1996Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shigetoshi Negishi, Takeshi Nishiguchi, Mikio Yasuda, Takashi Munezane, Manabu Morioka, Takayoshi Kado, Takaharu Fuji, Noboru Furuta
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Patent number: 6675470Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing an electro-optical device including a flexible wiring board having a conductive terminal electrically connected to an electro-optical display apparatus, whereby the flexible wiring board is electrically connected to a conductive terminal provided on a circuit board. A structural member is disposed between a first side of the electro-optical display and a first side of the flexible wiring board. The flexible wiring board is bent toward a second side of the structural member to oppose the circuit board and a conductive member is provided between the conductive terminal of the flexible wiring board and the conductive terminal of the circuit board. A force is applied to the structural member to attach the structural member to the circuit board, the force operable to compression-bond the conductive member to the conductive terminals of the flexible wiring board and the circuit board to establish an electrical connection therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2000Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Eiji Muramatsu
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Patent number: 6664481Abstract: A method and apparatus for trimming a discrete surface-mounted component or a component integrated in a substrate including providing a trimmable structure mounted on the surface of a substrate for each component to be trimmed. In an exemplary embodiment, the component to be trimmed is a capacitor. In another exemplary embodiment, the trimmable structure is one electrode of a trimmable capacitor whose other electrode is integrated in the substrate, and the trimmable capacitor is connected in parallel with a surface mounted capacitor to be trimmed.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2000Date of Patent: December 16, 2003Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM EricssonInventor: Lars-Anders Olofsson
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Patent number: 6658727Abstract: A method of assembling a multi-chip module does not necessitate more the one pass through a die attach machine. The method involves attaching a smaller die to a larger die without using a die attach machine. The larger die may be attached to a support structure using a die attach machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Patrick W. Tandy
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Publication number: 20030192180Abstract: An installation apparatus and method of installing a land grid array (LGA) multi-chip module assembly to a printed wiring board is provided. A module holding member is attached to the printed wiring board. The module assembly is inserted into the module holding member. The module assembly is retained to the module holding member, which facilitates mechanical actuation of the LGA compression hardware. The module assembly is electrically grounded to the printed wiring board while the module assembly is retained to the module holding member.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2003Publication date: October 16, 2003Inventors: John L. Colbert, John S. Corbin, Roger D. Hamilton, Danny E. Massey, Arvind K. Sinha, Charles C. Stratton
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Patent number: 6594887Abstract: A component installing device comprises: a tray component supply section (8) having a plurality of conjointly provided tray component supply mechanisms (7) for moving selected trays (4) from a storage position (5) to a component supply position (6), according to need, thereby providing the components (2) accommodated therein for use; and a cassette component supply section (13) having a plurality of mutually aligned component supply cassettes (12) for carrying components in a tape cassette or a bulk cassette, and transporting said components to a component supply position (11), one at a time, thereby providing said components for use.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2000Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Okuda, Akira Kabeshita, Naoyuki Kitamura, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Mamoru Inoue, Kazuo Mori
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Patent number: 6584684Abstract: A module or assembly is formed by interposing a polymer between a carrier and a semiconductor device to be secured to the carrier. The polymer has ionized metallic particles suspended in it. Before setting or curing the polymer, the module is exposed to an electric field which induces migration of the metallic particles to the opposing pads of the carrier and semiconductor device. Such migration ultimately forms metal dendrites extending between mating pad pairs. The dendrites establish a metallurgical bond and conductive paths between the carrier and the overlying semiconductor device. When the polymer is subsequently set, the carrier and device are not only adhered to each other, but the dendrite connections are fixed and structurally reinforced to provide the needed electrically conductive paths.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2001Date of Patent: July 1, 2003Assignee: International Business MachinesInventors: Peter J. Brofman, Anson J. Call, Jeffrey T. Coffin, Kathleen A. Stalter
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Publication number: 20030101583Abstract: A technique for assembling a multi-chip module does not necessitate more than one pass through a die attach machine. The technique involves attaching a smaller die to a larger die without using a die attach machine. The larger die may be attached to a support structure using a die attach machine. In some embodiments, the larger die is affixed to the support structure first and in other embodiments, the smaller die is affixed to the larger die first.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2003Publication date: June 5, 2003Inventor: Patrick W. Tandy
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Patent number: 6571462Abstract: Two or more parts feeding sections are provided, and in each of the parts feeding sections, identical combinations of parts cassettes aligned in the same arrangement are prepared. If one or more type of components that are to be picked up at one time by a plurality of suction nozzles is exhausted, the mounting head moves to the other parts feeding section, which provides the same combination of components for all the suction nozzles to pick up the components at one time, so that the mounting operation can be continued without stopping the apparatus for replenishment of components.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2000Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., LTDInventors: Naoto Mimura, Hirofumi Obara, Hiroshi Ogata, Chikashi Konishi
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Patent number: 6553658Abstract: A method for assembling a multi-chip module does not necessitate more than one pass through a die attach machine. The method involves attaching a smaller die to a larger die without using a die attach machine. The larger die may be attached to a support structure using a die attach machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Patrick W. Tandy
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Patent number: 6539622Abstract: An electronic components mounting device has a plurality of feeder bases attached with tape feeders thereon, and a guide rail and a cylinder for drawing each of the feeder bases independently to a position for replenishing electronic components. When an electronic component runs out of the storage, only the feeder base that is carrying the relevant tape feeder gone out of the stock is drawn to a place for parts replenishment; in the mean time, the mounting actions keep on going by making use of tape feeders attached on other feeder base. Machine stop times can be decreased with the mounting device.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1999Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wataru Hidese, Yusuke Yamamoto
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Patent number: 6523253Abstract: A system for delivering power to a processor enables a DC-to-DC converter substrate to be secured to the processor carrier in the Z-axis direction. The ability to assemble the converter to the processor in this way facilitates assembly compared to systems in which the converter is plugged in to the processor carrier in the direction substantially parallel to the surface of the motherboard.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2000Date of Patent: February 25, 2003Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Joe A. Harrison, Edward R. Stanford
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Patent number: 6519840Abstract: An apparatus for mounting semiconductor chips on a substrate with which the semiconductor chips are presented on a foil clamped in a frame at a first location A comprises a chip gripper for the transport of the semiconductor chip presented at the first location A to a second location located on the substrate, a movable table for accepting the frame, a chip ejector arranged underneath the foil at the first location A the upper surface of which facing towards the foil has holes connected to a vacuum source, as well as a measuring camera directed at the first location A for establishing the position of the presented semiconductor chip. Correction of a possible position deviation of the presented semiconductor chip from its set position takes place in accordance with the invention in that the foil is secured by the chip ejector by means of vacuum and then at least the upper surface of the chip ejector facing towards the foil is moved in the plane running parallel to the under side of the foil.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 18, 2003Assignee: ESEC Trading SAInventor: Roland Stalder
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Patent number: 6499213Abstract: A technique for assembling a multi-chip module does not necessitate more than one pass through a die attach machine. The technique involves attaching a smaller die to a larger die without using a die attach machine. The larger die may be attached to a support structure using a die attach machine. In some embodiments, the larger die is affixed to the support structure first and in other embodiments, the smaller die is affixed to the larger die first.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2001Date of Patent: December 31, 2002Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Patrick W. Tandy
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Patent number: 6493931Abstract: In a component mounting device in which a component is picked up and mounted on a circuit board by a suction nozzle, an amount of displacement between a center position of the suction nozzle 11 and that of the picked-up component 12 is measured, and when it is larger than a preliminarily determined value, a warning is generated indicating that the parts cassette 3 from which the component 12 has been fed is in abnormal condition, as well as the mounting action of the component 12 is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2001Date of Patent: December 17, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masato Hirano, Yoshinori Sakai, Tateo Nakashima
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Patent number: 6467163Abstract: A universal mounting structure for surface mountable electronic devices is provided having an arrangement of circuit patterns or lands applied to a circuit board or circuit waffer that permits the mounting of surface mount electronic devices of various sizes or mounting footprint requirements and that provides multiple placement location and interconnection options for the components to the circuit designer. The universal mounting structure described above provides a breadboard or prototyping medium for use with surface mount devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 1997Date of Patent: October 22, 2002Inventor: Robert A. Laschinski
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Patent number: 6446333Abstract: A component mounting method for picking up components with a mounting head having multiple suction nozzles, and mounting these components on a mounting target after recognition. Components picked up integrally move against a component recognizer disposed on a movement route of the head for scanning and recognizing each component. During scanning, the slowest speed in scanning speeds required for recognizing each component is used. This eliminates a approaching time needed for switching speed during scanning of each component, thus reducing the total recognition time to improve mounting efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2000Date of Patent: September 10, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kashiwagi, Kazuhide Nagao
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Publication number: 20020121018Abstract: The present invention provides for an electronic component mounting method and apparatus which are capable of achieving high-speed operation by varying a driving amount for an intermittent feed of an electronic component according to the electronic component's type. In order to achieve this purpose, the present invention provides an electronic component mounting method for picking up an electronic component by a pickup nozzle from a component feed unit that intermittently feeds electronic components, and mounting the picked-up electronic component onto a board. A driving amount for the component feed unit for intermittently feeding the electronic components is varied depending on the type of the electronic component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2002Publication date: September 5, 2002Inventors: Kunio Sakurai, Wataru Hirai, Minoru Yamamoto, Seiichi Mogi
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Patent number: 6408505Abstract: There is provided a plurality of component mounting apparatuses for sucking a plurality of components by a mounting head section and successively mounting the components onto a board located at a board positioning section. The component mounting apparatuses are arranged in parallel to one another, and a board transfer path is provided so that it penetrates the component mounting apparatuses. Even when the number of components to be mounted onto the board increases, the components are mounted on the component supply tables of the component mounting apparatuses as distributed thereto, and therefore, the whole apparatus is not dimensionally increased. The component supply tables are fixedly installed so as to become free of vibration, and the mounting head section executes the suction and the mounting of the plurality of components. Therefore, the component mounting operation speed can be remarkably increased.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2000Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kanji Hata, Noriaki Yoshida