Patents Assigned to Shinkawa Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20250118701
    Abstract: A bonding apparatus 1 comprises: a bonding head 2 including a pressure tool PT that pressurizes an electronic component 9 and a heater 22 that heats the pressure tool PT, the pressure tool PT being configured so as to be detachable from the heater 22; a storage part 5 that stores temperature control data indicating temporal changes in the set temperature of the heater 22; and a controller 4 that controls the set temperature of the heater 22 on the basis of the temperature control data. The temperature control data has one or more temperature control patterns associated with bonding conditions for bonding the electronic component 9 to a substrate 8. The controller 4 reads one of the one or more temperature control patterns according to the bonding conditions and controls the set temperature of the heater 22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Fukumoto, Katsutoshi Nomura
  • Patent number: 12261148
    Abstract: A wire bonding apparatus is provided with: a bonding stage on which a semiconductor chip is mounted; a wire bonding unit including a capillary bonding a bonding wire to the semiconductor chip, a Z-axis drive section reciprocating the capillary, and a tool XY-stage causing the capillary and the Z-axis drive section to be moved along a two-dimensional plane intersecting a direction of reciprocation; and a base having an optical system and an optical system XY-stage causing the optical system to be moved along a two-dimensional plane intersecting a direction of reciprocation, the base having the wire bonding unit attached thereto. The wire bonding unit is attached to a first portion of the base, and the optical system XY-stage is attached to a second portion of the base which is separate from the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Hayata
  • Patent number: 12217996
    Abstract: This conveying device 1 comprises: a chuck 2 that contactlessly holds a semiconductor chip 103 to face a holding surface 2B; and a guide 3 that has a guide probe 9 capable of abutting a chip side surface 103s of the semiconductor chip 103, and for the semiconductor chip 103 held by the chuck 2, the guide probe 9 limits the movement of the semiconductor chip 103 in the lateral direction which intersects a normal N to the holding surface 2B. The guide probe 9 is capable of reciprocating movement in which a probe tip 9a moves towards and away from the holding surface 2B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Li, Hiroshi Kikuchi, Satoshi Enokido
  • Publication number: 20250014921
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes a mounting tool; top-view imaging units employing Scheimpflug optical systems for imaging from above a substrate; a bottom-view imaging unit for imaging from below a mounting body held by the mounting tool; a calibration controller calculating calibration values for calibrating a difference between coordinate values calculated based on top-view images and a bottom-view image, based on the top-view images and the bottom-view image of imaging the same calibration index; and a mounting controller recognizing a reference position of the mounting body based on the bottom-view image of the bottom-view imaging unit imaging the mounting body held by the mounting tool, and causing the mounting tool to place and mount the mounting body on the substrate so that the reference position coincides with a target position determined based on the top-view images of the top-view imaging units imaging the substrate and the calibration values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei SEYAMA
  • Patent number: 12191276
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mounting apparatus, including a bonding stage holding a substrate on which a semiconductor chip is arranged; a base stand; a mounting head mounted with a pressing tool that presses the semiconductor chip on the substrate; and a film arranging mechanism provided on the base stand and moving a cover film along the bonding stage to arrange the cover film between the semiconductor chip pressed by the substrate and the pressing tool. The film arranging mechanism includes film guides guiding the cover film and defining a height with respect to the bonding stage; and lifting mechanisms connected to the film guides via springs and lifting and lowering the film guides with respect to the bonding stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Alexander Dzhangirov, Kohei Seyama
  • Patent number: 12191173
    Abstract: Provided is a wire tension adjuster (60) that adjusts tension (T) applied to a wire (18) of a wire bonding apparatus (100). In the wire tension adjuster (60), in a state in which the wire (18) is gripped by a wire clamper (17), air is supplied to a wire tensioner (40) and a height position (H) of a tip (14f) of a bonding arm (14) is detected, and a flow rate (G) of the air supplied to the wire tensioner (40) is adjusted based on the height position (H) detected, thereby adjusting the tension (T) applied to the wire (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Toyama, Yuu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12176317
    Abstract: A semiconductor device manufacturing device (10) comprises: a stage (16) on which a substrate (100) is loaded; a bonding head (14) that is disposed facing the stage (16) and that bonds a semiconductor chip (110) to the substrate (100); and a controller (18). The bonding head (14) includes: an attachment (33) that holds the semiconductor chip (110) by suctioning; and a heating part (31) that detachably holds the attachment (33) and that heats the attachment (33). The heating part (31) has a first heating area (32a) and a second heating area (32b) that surrounds the first heating area (32a) in the horizontal direction. The controller (18) controls the temperatures of the first heating area (32a) and the second heating area (32b) independently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Seyama
  • Publication number: 20240404890
    Abstract: An inspection device includes: a measurement part, measuring a reference position of a mounting section before mounting of a semiconductor chip, a reference position of a plurality of peripheral sections located around the mounting section, and a position of the semiconductor chip after mounting; and an inspection part, inspecting a relative position of the semiconductor chip with respect to the mounting section based on a distance between the reference position of the mounting section and the reference position of the plurality of peripheral sections measured by the measurement part and a distance between the reference position of the plurality of peripheral sections and a mounting position of the semiconductor chip after mounting of the semiconductor chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 12154801
    Abstract: Provided is a wire tension adjuster (60) that adjusts tension (T) applied to a wire (18) of a wire bonding apparatus (100). In the wire tension adjuster (60), in a state in which the wire (18) is gripped by a wire clamper (17), air is supplied to a wire tensioner (40) and a height position (H) of a tip (14f) of a bonding arm (14) is detected, and a flow rate (G) of the air supplied to the wire tensioner (40) is adjusted based on the height position (H) detected, thereby adjusting the tension (T) applied to the wire (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Toyama, Yuu Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 12145218
    Abstract: A flux transfer apparatus (100) includes: a stage (12), having a concave part (13) at a central part; a flux pot (20), having, disposed on a bottom plate (25), a through hole (27) supplying flux (50) to a concave part (13), and reciprocally moving on a surface (14, 15) of the stage (12) to supply the flux (50) to the concave part (13); a detector (30), detecting a remaining amount of the flux (50) stored in the flux pot (20). The detector is disposed on a lower side of the stage (12) or a lateral side of the flux pot (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeyuki Sekiguchi
  • Publication number: 20240379613
    Abstract: The present invention includes a bonding process of bonding a wire to an electrode by a capillary, a wire feeding process of raising the capillary to feed the wire from a tip, a pressing process of moving the capillary to press an inner edge of the capillary against the wire, a scraping process of vibrating the tip of the capillary to form a scrape on a side surface of the wire by the inner edge of the capillary, and a cut-off process of closing a wire clamper and cutting off the wire at a portion of the scrape to form a pin wire extending vertically upward from the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi MUNAKATA, Toshihiko TOYAMA
  • Patent number: 12136604
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a position detection unit (55) detecting positions of semiconductor chips and storing each detected position in a position database (56); a position correction unit (57) outputting a corrected bonding position; and a bonding control unit (58) performing bonding of the semiconductor chips based on the corrected bonding position input from the position correction unit (57). The position correction unit (57) calculates position shift amounts between the semiconductor chips of respective stages and an accumulated position shift amount, and when the accumulated position shift amount is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, corrects the position of the semiconductor chip by the accumulated position shift amount and outputs it as the corrected bonding position, and the bonding control unit (58) performs bonding of the semiconductor chip of the next stage at the corrected bonding position input from the position correction unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Hideharu Nihei
  • Patent number: 12131921
    Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus (10) for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: a wafer holding device (12), a PU device (14) having a PU head (40) that holds a target chip (100) in a non-contact manner, an energy irradiation device (16) irradiating energy to the target chip (100) from a back surface side of a dicing tape (130) to reduce an adhesive force of the dicing tape (130), and a controller (22). An adhesive layer of the dicing tape (130) is a self-peeling adhesive layer having an adhesive force that decreases with irradiation of the energy and floats the target chip (100) by a small distance. The controller (22) controls a position of the PU head (40) so that the target chip (100) and the PU head (40) do not come into contact with each other even if the target chip (100) floats during a takeoff preparation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Seyama, Takahiro Shimizu
  • Patent number: 12112962
    Abstract: An arrangement apparatus includes a stage, an arrangement part, and a control part. The stage supports a substrate. The arrangement part holds a die and arranges multiple dies on the substrate supported by the stage. The control part has a map data indicating arrangement positions of the dies and generated based on a positional relationship among patterns formed by an exposure apparatus, and controls, based on the map data, relative positions between the stage and the arrangement part when arranging the dies on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Seyama
  • Patent number: 12107070
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which connects a first bond point and a second bond point by a wire. The method includes: a ball bonding step in which a crimping ball and a ball neck are formed at the first bond point by ball bonding; a thin-walled portion forming step in which a thin-walled portion having a reduced cross-sectional area is formed between the ball neck and the crimping ball; a wire tail separating step in which after a capillary is raised to unroll a wire tail, the capillary is moved in a direction to the second bond point, and the wire tail and the crimping ball are separated in the thin-walled portion; and a wire tail joining step in which the capillary is lowered and a side surface of the separated wire tail is joined onto the crimping ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yoshino, Shinsuke Tei
  • Patent number: 12107067
    Abstract: A wire bonding device for performing a wire bonding process includes: a bonding tool for inserting a wire; an ultrasonic vibrator; a drive mechanism for moving the bonding tool; and a control part. The control part performs: a bonding step of bonding the wire to a bonding point; a tail feeding out step of feeding out a wire tail from the wire bonded to the bonding point; a tension applying step of raising the bonding tool to apply tension to the wire while the wire is clamped; a tension release step of lowering the bonding tool to release the tension applied to the wire; and after performing a series of steps including the tension applying step and the tension release step at least once, a tail cutting step of raising the bonding tool to cut the wire tail from the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Yoshino, Shinsuke Tei
  • Publication number: 20240318958
    Abstract: In this method for detecting a degree of parallelism of a mounting device: a triangular pin is arranged at a point A on a placement surface of a stage; a mounting head is lowered, and a height of the mounting head when a holding surface comes into contact with a tip end of the triangular pin is detected using an encoder, after which the triangular pin is moved to a point B and the mounting head is lowered; the height of the mounting head when the holding surface comes into contact with the tip end of the triangular pin is detected by the encoder; and the degree of parallelism between the placement surface of the stage and the holding surface of the mounting head is calculated on the basis of the detected heights at point A and point B.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Yuichiro NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20240304592
    Abstract: A bonding apparatus includes a bonding tool, first and second imaging units, a calculation part, and a drive control part. The first and second imaging units each include an optical system and an imaging element arranged to satisfy a Scheimpflug condition such that a plane parallel to a stage surface becomes a focal plane. The calculation part calculates three-dimensional coordinates of a target point to which a bonding wire is to be supplied next among bonding points, based on a first picture which is a picture of the target point captured in a first image outputted by the first imaging unit, and a second picture which is a picture of the target point captured in a second image outputted by the second imaging unit. The drive control part causes the bonding tool to approach the target point based on the three-dimensional coordinates of the target point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei SEYAMA
  • Patent number: 12087725
    Abstract: A wire bonding apparatus of an aspect includes: a clamp apparatus, having a pair of arms; a stage, moving the clamp apparatus in a horizontal direction; a rod member; a contact detection part, detecting contact between the rod member and the clamp apparatus; and a control apparatus, controlling opening and closing of the pair of arms and an operation of the stage and acquiring position information of the clamp apparatus. The control apparatus obtains an opening amount of the pair of arms based on position information of the clamp apparatus at a time when an outer side surface of a first arm contacts the rod member in a state where the pair of arms are closed and position information of the clamp apparatus at the time when the outer side surface of the first arm contacts the rod member in a state where the pair of arms are open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Toshihiko Toyama
  • Publication number: 20240297055
    Abstract: Provided is a wire tension adjuster (60) that adjusts tension (T) applied to a wire (18) of a wire bonding apparatus (100). In the wire tension adjuster (60), in a state in which the wire (18) is gripped by a wire clamper (17), air is supplied to a wire tensioner (40) and a height position (H) of a tip (14f) of a bonding arm (14) is detected, and a flow rate (G) of the air supplied to the wire tensioner (40) is adjusted based on the height position (H) detected, thereby adjusting the tension (T) applied to the wire (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiko TOYAMA, Yuu HASEGAWA