Patents Assigned to Shinkawa Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20220283020
    Abstract: A vibration detection system (100) detects vibration of an ultrasonic horn (12), of which the front surface is a non-specular surface, and of a capillary (13), wherein the vibration detection system (100) includes a laser light source (20) that irradiates the ultrasonic horn (12) and the capillary (13) with parallel laser light beams (21), a camera (30) having an imaging element (31) that captures an image of the ultrasonic horn (12) and the capillary (13) irradiated with the parallel laser light beams (21), and an image processing device (40) that processes the image captured by the camera (30) and displays a location where vibration occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Michael KIRKBY, Shota NAKANO, Hiroshi MUNAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220254751
    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: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei SEYAMA
  • Patent number: 11410960
    Abstract: A bonding apparatus includes a bonding stage on which either a rectangular substrate or a circular substrate can be installed; a first transport mechanism which transports the rectangular substrate from a first carry-in unit to the bonding stage and from the bonding stage to a first carry-out unit; and a second transport mechanism which transports the circular substrate from a second carry-in/out unit to the bonding stage and from the bonding stage to the second carry-in/out unit, in which a first transport path determined by the first transport mechanism and a second transport path determined by the second transport mechanism partially overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Seyama, Tetsuya Utano
  • Patent number: 11410866
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a base moving linearly relative to a substrate and having a first and second positions that are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval a in the movement direction; a linear scale where a plurality of graduations having a predetermined pitch are provided along the movement direction; encoder heads which respectively are disposed at the first and second positions of the base and detect first and second graduation numbers of the linear scale with respect to the first and second positions, wherein, as the base is moved along the linear scale, the first and second graduation numbers are detected in this order in the respective encoder heads, and the movement amount of the base is controlled on the basis of the ratio between the predetermined interval and the distance between the first graduation number and the second graduation number on the scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Seyama, Tetsuya Utano, Yuichiro Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220223450
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) for producing a semiconductor device comprises a stage (16), a bonding head (14), a bonding tool (24) and a first camera (26) that are attached to the bonding head (14), and a controller (18), the apparatus (10) moreover being such that the controller (18) is configured to execute for each of one or more points: a process of mounting an inspection chip (130) on a mounting surface; a process of acquiring, as an inspection image (44), an image of the mounting surface after the inspection chip (130) has been mounted thereon captured by the first camera (26); a process of calculating, as an area correction amount C, a correction amount for a camera offset amount Ocm on the basis of the position of the inspection chip (130) in the inspection image (44); and a process of associating the calculated area correction amount C and the position of a discretionary point and then storing the associated information in a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei SEYAMA, Makoto TAKAHASHI
  • Patent number: 11387211
    Abstract: A bonding apparatus bonds a semiconductor die, which has a first mam surface provided with a bump electrode, to a substrate by means of thermo-compression, with a thermo-compression film being interposed therebetween. The bonding apparatus includes: an intermediate stage that has a die placing surface on which the semiconductor die is placed such that the die placing surface faces the first main surface; and a bonding tool which detachably holds a second main surface of the semiconductor die that is placed on the intermediate stage, the second main surface being on the reverse side of the first main surface. The intermediate stage has a push-up mechanism which applies, to the first main surface of the semiconductor die, a force for separating the semiconductor die therefrom in the normal direction of the die placing surface (in a Z-axis direction).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Otani, Osamu Watanabe, Tomonori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20220216089
    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: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: JIN LI, Hiroshi KIKUCHI, Satoshi ENOKIDO
  • Publication number: 20220216078
    Abstract: A mounting device 1 is equipped with: two direct-acting voice coil motors 38 in which a movable element 38c reciprocatingly moves along an axis A relative to a fixed element 38b; and a collet 34A mounted on an end part side of the movable elements 38c, the collet 34A holding a semiconductor chip 101 by suction. The plurality of voice coil motors 38 are disposed so as to be set away from each other along a direction intersecting the axes A, and in a manner that the axes A are parallel to each other. The collet 34A is mounted so as to straddle chucks 39 provided at the end parts of the two movable elements 38c.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei SEYAMA, Tetsuya UTANO
  • Patent number: 11376627
    Abstract: An ultrasonic horn is provided with: a vibration generating unit configured to generate longitudinal vibration having a frequency in the ultrasonic band on the basis of a signal having a frequency in the ultrasonic band input from an oscillator; a vibration amplifying unit configured to amplify the vibration generating unit while transmitting the longitudinal vibration from the vibration generating unit; and a longitudinal-torsional vibration conversion slit unit having slits formed in a groove-like shape on the surfaces of the vibration amplifying unit and configured to convert the longitudinal vibration into torsional vibration. The vibration amplifying unit has a polygonal shape in a plane view, and has a plurality of surfaces provided with slits along with a surface not provided with slits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hikaru Miura, Takuya Asami, Yasumoto Togashi, Nobuyuki Aoyagi
  • Publication number: 20220208721
    Abstract: This wire bonding apparatus has a capillary, a movement mechanism moving the capillary, and a control unit controlling driving of the movement mechanism. The control unit at least causes execution of: a first process (trajectory a) of lowering the capillary, after a FAB is formed, to pressure bonding height at a first bonding point to form a pressure bonded ball and a column part at the first bonding point; a second process (trajectory b) of moving the capillary horizontally at the pressure bonding height after execution of the first process to scarp off the column part by the capillary; and a third process (trajectory c-k) of repeating a pressing operation at least once after execution of the second process, the pressing operation involving moving the capillary forward and lowering the capillary temporarily during movement so that the capillary presses down on a wire portion positioned over the pressure bonded ball.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki YOSHINO, Shinsuke TEI
  • Patent number: 11373975
    Abstract: An electronic component mounting device (100) bonds a semiconductor die (150) to a substrate by thermocompression bonding, and seals, using an insulating resin, a gap between the semiconductor die (150) and the substrate. The electronic component mounting device is provided with: a film cutting mechanism (200) for cutting a long film (210) into cut pieces; and a mounting tool (110), which vacuum-sucks the semiconductor die (150), and bonds the die to the substrate by thermocompression bonding. Consequently, in the electronic component mounting device (100) that moves a mounting head in the horizontal direction, adhesion of the insulating resin to the mounting tool can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Seyama
  • Publication number: 20220199448
    Abstract: A bonding apparatus and method for correcting movement amount of bonding head are provided. The bonding apparatus performs: mark correction of imaging a reference mark using a position detection camera at every prescribed timing and correcting the amount of movement of a bonding head on the basis of the amount of positional deviation between the position of the imaged reference mark and a reference position of the position detection camera; and actual position correction of detecting the actual bonding position of a semiconductor element after bonding using the position detection camera at every timing when the cumulative value of the amounts of correction of the mark correction from the previous actual position correction exceeds a prescribed first threshold and correcting the amount of movement of the bonding head on the basis of the amount of positional deviation between the detected actual bonding position and a target bonding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto TAKAHASHI, Tomonori NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 11367703
    Abstract: A bonding apparatus is provided. This bonding apparatus uses images captured by an imaging apparatus and performs a packaging process for a semiconductor chip and additional processes other than the packaging process. The bonding apparatus is provided with: an aperture switching mechanism provided in an optical system of the imaging apparatus and capable of switching between a first aperture and a second aperture that has an aperture hole diameter greater than that of the first aperture; and a control unit which controls the aperture switching mechanism to switch to either the first aperture or the second aperture. The control unit performs the packaging process using an image captured by switching to the first aperture and performs the additional processes using an image captured by switching to the second aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroya Yuzawa, Shigeru Hayata, Yuto Hattori
  • Publication number: 20220180494
    Abstract: Provided is a wire shape measurement device of a semiconductor device comprising a substrate, a semiconductor element, and a wire connecting an electrode of the semiconductor element to an electrode of the substrate. The wire shape measurement device comprises: cameras that capture two-dimensional images of the semiconductor device; and a control unit that examines the shape of the wire based on the two-dimensional images of the semiconductor device acquired by the cameras. The control unit performs pattern matching using information on the position at which the wire is connected to the substrate or the semiconductor element and thickness information of the wire, and by utilizing the pattern matching, the control unit: generates a three-dimensional image of the wire from the two-dimensional images of the semiconductor device acquired by the cameras; and performs shape measurement of the wire based on the generated three-dimensional image of the wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Takaya KINJO, Shota NAKANO, Akira SEKIKAWA, Hiroshi MUNAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220165591
    Abstract: This bonding apparatus is provided with: a tape feeder module which takes out an electronic component from a carrier tape and transfers the electronic component thus taken out; a die supply module which has a die pick-up mechanism for picking up a semiconductor die from a semiconductor wafer bonded to a dicing sheet by pushing up the semiconductor die and which transfers the semiconductor die thus picked up; and a bonding module which arranges, on a circuit substrate, the semiconductor die supplied by the die supply module and/or the electronic component supplied by the tape feeder module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki SEKIGUCHI, Yuji EGUCHI, Kohei SEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220149001
    Abstract: A wire bonding apparatus connecting a lead of a mounted member with an electrode of a semiconductor die through a wire comprises a capillary through which the wire is inserted, a shape acquisition part which acquires the shape of the lead to which the wire is connected, a calculating part which calculates an extending direction of a wire tail extending from the end of the capillary based on the shape of a lead to which the wire is connected next, and a cutting part which moves the capillary in the extending direction and cuts the wire to form the wire tail after the lead is connected with the electrode through the wire. Thus, in the wire bonding using wedge bonding, joining part tails (183a, 283a, 383a) formed in continuation to a first bonding point can be prevented from coming into contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki SEKINE, Yasuo NAGASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20220134468
    Abstract: A capillary guide device 40 includes: a guide body portion 41 capable of being in contact with a capillary 8 held in a hole 7h; and a drive portion 42 which arranges the guide body portion 41 at a position capable of being in contact with the capillary 8 by moving the guide body portion 41 along an X-axis direction. The drive portion 42 includes: a table 46 connected to the guide body portion 41; a drive shaft 47b extending in the X-axis direction and exhibiting a frictional resistance force with the table 46; and an ultrasonic element 47a fixed to an end of the drive shaft 47b and supplying an ultrasonic wave to the drive shaft 47b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Yohei UCHIDA
  • Publication number: 20220130026
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wire non-attachment inspection system (100) of a semiconductor device (10), wherein: the wire non-attachment inspection system (100) comprises an ultrasonic oscillator (40), an ultrasonic transducer (42), a camera (45), a display (48), and a control unit (50); and the control unit (50) calculates the difference in image between one frame of a captured video and a previous frame before the one frame, and displays, on the display, an image of a wire for which the difference exceeds a prescribed threshold value so as to be displayed differently than the image of another wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Michael KIRKBY, Takaya KINJO, Hiroshi MUNAKATA
  • Publication number: 20220130796
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus for mounting a semiconductor chip on a mounting body includes a stage on which the mounting body is placed, a mounting head provided to be movable up and down above the stage and pressing the semiconductor chip against the mounting body, and a film disposition mechanism which interposes a belt-like cover film between the mounting head and the stage, and the film disposition mechanism includes a film feeding part having a feeding reel around which at least the cover film has been wound, a film recovery part having a recovery reel also winding up at least the fed cover film, and one or more relay shafts provided in the course of a path of the cover film from the feeding reel to the recovery reel and by which the cover film is folded back in order to bend a moving direction of the cover film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei SEYAMA, Tetsuya UTANO
  • Patent number: D959525
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Nagano