Patents Assigned to Shinkawa Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11069650
    Abstract: The apparatus which assists in deriving bonding conditions includes a bonding unit which bonds a semiconductor chip and a substrate by applying heat and pressure with NCF interposed therebetween, a library in which a variety of physical property information including viscosity characteristic information is collected with respect to each of a plurality of types of NCFs, an initial evaluation condition determination unit which acquires the physical property information corresponding to the NCF used for bonding with reference to the library and determines an initial value of an evaluation condition of bonding evaluation performed by bonding the semiconductor chip and the substrate, and a bonding evaluation unit which drives the bonding unit in accordance with set evaluation condition, bonds the semiconductor chip and the substrate and performs the bonding evaluation at least once to measure the viscosity of the NCF at the time of the bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Tomonori Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20210218870
    Abstract: There is disclosed a camera module manufacturing apparatus for joining together a lens unit that incorporates a taking lens and a sensor board to which an image sensor is attached. The camera module manufacturing apparatus includes an optical unit including a collimator lens and a measurement chart for forming an image of the measurement chart on the image sensor through the taking lens. The relative position of the lens unit and the sensor board is adjusted based on an image signal obtained by converting, using the image sensor, an image of the measurement chart that is formed on the image sensor by the optical unit. The measurement chart is disposed to be tilted with respect to a plane that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the collimator lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicants: PFA Corporation, TIETECH CO., LTD, CHUNICHI SUWA Optoelectronics Co., Ltd., SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa YAMAMOTO, Fujio ASANO, Hideho MIYAKE, Koji IMAGAWA, Hiroki TAKAGAKI, Shingo NATORI
  • Patent number: 11062964
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device and a mounting apparatus are provided. The method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: a placing step for placing, on a bonding surface, a temporary substrate which is transmissive with respect to an alignment mark; an image acquisition step for acquiring an image of the alignment mark and an image of a semiconductor die; a correction step for correcting, on the basis of the image of the alignment mark and the image of the semiconductor die acquired in the image acquisition step, the position in the horizontal direction of a bonding head that pressure bonds the semiconductor die to the temporary substrate; and a pressure bonding step for pressure bonding the semiconductor die to the transmissive substrate on the basis of the corrected position in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Seyama
  • Publication number: 20210197543
    Abstract: This detachment device is provided with: a collet including a contact surface that comes into surface contact with a surface of a protective film adhering to an adhesion member attached on a workpiece, and including a suction hole that is provided in the contact surface and that sucks the protective film; and a movement mechanism that moves the collet relative to the workpiece, wherein while the protective film is being sucked by the suction hole, the collet is separated from the workpiece so that the protective film is detached from the adhesion member. Accordingly, the detachment device capable of more assuredly detaching the protective film from the workpiece is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiromi SHIBAHARA, Tomonori NAKAMURA, Kohei SEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210202432
    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: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroya YUZAWA, Shigeru HAYATA, Yuto HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20210185828
    Abstract: This flux transfer apparatus (10) comprises: a stage (12) having a recessed portion (13) for collecting flux (51); a flux pot (20) which is an annular member having a through hole (21) into which the flux (51) is introduced, which reciprocates along a top surface (14) of the stage (12) to supply the flux (51) that has been introduced into the through hole (21) into the recessed portion (13), and which levels off the top surface of the flux using a bottom surface (22); and a cooling mechanism (30) for cooling the stage (12). By this means, a rise in the temperature of the stage in the flux collecting apparatus is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei SEYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210175201
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes: a bonding stage; a base; a mounting head for performing a temporary press-attachment process in which semiconductor chips are suction-held and temporarily press-attached to a mounted object and a final press-attachment process in which the temporarily press-attached semiconductor chips are finally press-attached; a film arrangement mechanism arranged on the bonding stage or the base; and a controller which controls driving of the mounting head and the film arrangement mechanism. The film arrangement mechanism includes: a film feed-out mechanism which has a pair of feed rollers with a cover film extended there-between and successively feeds out a new cover film; and a film movement mechanism which moves the cover film in a horizontal direction with respect to a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei SEYAMA, Tetsuya UTANO
  • Patent number: 11024596
    Abstract: [Problem] To bond an electronic component on a substrate via an adhesive material satisfactorily. [Solution] A bonding device 10 for thermally bonding an electronic component 100 to a substrate 110 or to another electronic component via an adhesive material 112, the bonding device being provided with: a bonding tool 40 comprising a bonding distal-end portion 42 which includes a bonding surface 44 and tapered side surfaces 46 formed in a tapering shape becoming narrower toward the bonding surface 44, the bonding surface 44 having a first suction hole 50 for suction-attaching the electronic component 100 via an individual piece of a porous sheet 130, the tapered side surfaces 46 having second suction holes 52, 54 for suction-attaching the porous sheet 130; and a bonding control unit 30 which controls the first suction hole 50 and the second suction holes 52, 54 independently from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Watanabe, Tomonori Nakamura, Toru Maeda, Satoru Nagai, Yuichiro Noguchi
  • Patent number: 11004821
    Abstract: A wire bonding method comprises: preparing a wire bonding apparatus; a step of forming a free air ball; a first height measuring step of measuring the height of a first electrode by detecting whether the free air ball is grounded to the first electrode; a second height measuring step of measuring the height of a second electrode by detecting whether the free air ball is grounded to the second electrode; a first bonding step of controlling the height of a bonding tool based on the measurement result in the first height measuring step, and bonding the free air ball to the first electrode; and a second bonding step of controlling the height of the bonding tool based on the measurement result in the second height measuring step, and bonding a wire to the second electrode to connect the first and the second electrodes. Thus, electrodes can be correctly bonded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Maruya, Yuki Sekine
  • Patent number: 11004822
    Abstract: This wire clamp apparatus calibration method comprises: a step for driving a driving piezoelectric element by applying a predetermined frequency that causes a pair of arm portions to vibrate in an opening/closing direction; a step for detecting whether or not end portions of the pair of arm portions collide with each other on the basis of an output current outputted from the driving piezoelectric element when the pair of arm portions are vibrating in the opening/closing direction; a step for calculating, on the basis of the detection result, reference voltages in a state where the pair of arm portions are closed; and a step for performing calibration of a drive voltage to be applied to the driving piezoelectric element on the basis of the reference voltages. Accordingly, accuracy improvement and stabilization in an opening/closing operation of the wire clamp apparatus can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Yohei Uchida, Naoya Taira
  • Patent number: 10978420
    Abstract: The mounting apparatus includes: a bonding head 14 that bonds, while pressing, a semiconductor chip 100 onto a substrate 110 or another semiconductor chip 100; and a heating mechanism 16 that heats the semiconductor chip 100 from the side during the execution of this bonding. After two or more semiconductor chips 100 are stacked while being bonded by temporary pressure-bonding, the bonding head 14 heats and applies pressure to an upper surface of the resultant stacked body, thereby integrally pressure-bonding the two or more semiconductor chips 100, and at the time of this pressure-bonding the heating mechanism 16 heats the stacked body from the side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hagiwara, Tomonori Nakamura, Hiroshi Horibe
  • Patent number: 10964661
    Abstract: The present invention comprises: a spool (10); a clamper (22); a torch electrode (31); a high-voltage power source circuit (30); a non-bonding detection circuit (40); a first changeover switch (50) switching a connection between the spool (10) and the high-voltage power source circuit (30) or the non-bonding detection circuit (40); and a relay (53) turning on/off a connection between the clamper (22) and a spool side of the first changeover switch (50), and comprises a control part (60) that sets the first changeover switch (50) to the high-voltage power source circuit side and turns off the relay (53) to generate electric discharge, and that sets the first changeover switch (50) to the non-bonding detection circuit side and turns on the relay (53) to perform non-bonding detection. Due to this configuration, electric corrosion of a wire clamper can be suppressed and non-bonding detection can be carried out with a simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Abe, Hisashi Ueda, Yutaka Kondo
  • Patent number: 10937758
    Abstract: Provided is a bonding method for directly bonding an electrode part of a chip component to a bonding part provided on a substrate that is a bonding target, the method comprising: a step for placing the substrate on a stage inside a liquid vessel; a step for injecting liquid into the liquid vessel; and a step for bonding the electrode part of the chip component to the bonding part (electrode part) of the bonding target by superimposing the chip component held by a bonding head in the liquid stored in the liquid vessel over the bonding target and then applying pressure thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: SHINKAWA LTD., TOHOKU UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Takehito Shimatsu, Miyuki Uomoto
  • Patent number: 10910248
    Abstract: A flip-chip bonding apparatus for mounting semiconductor chips on a circuit board is provided with: a mounting head, to which a plurality of mounting nozzles for moving, in the vertical direction, mounting tools for vacuum-sucking the semiconductor chips are attached by being aligned in the Y direction, said mounting head moving in the Y direction; and an electronic component handling unit, that moves in the X direction perpendicular to the Y direction, picks up the semiconductor chips such that the semiconductor chips are aligned in the X direction, inverts the semiconductor chips, and at the same time, changes the alignment direction of the semiconductor chips from the X direction to the Y direction. Consequently, in the electronic component mounting apparatus, installation area can be saved and bonding speed can be increased with the simple configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei Seyama
  • Patent number: 10896901
    Abstract: The disclosure is provided with: a temporary crimping step in which one or more semiconductor chips 10 are sequentially laminated while being temporarily crimped in each of two or more locations on a substrate 30 to thereby form chip stacks ST in a temporarily crimped state; and a permanent crimping step in which the top surfaces of all of the chip stacks ST formed in the temporarily crimped state are sequentially heated, pressurized, and permanently crimped. Furthermore, a specifying step is provided prior to the temporary crimping step for specifying a separation distance Dd which is the distance from the chip stacks ST under permanent crimping to a location at which the temperature of the substrate 30, the temperature having been raised by heating for the permanent crimping, becomes less than or equal to a prescribed permissible temperature Td, and in the temporary crimping step, the chip stacks ST in the temporarily crimped state are formed separated from each other by the separation distance Dd or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Tomonori Nakamura, Toru Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210005570
    Abstract: [Problem] To bond an electronic component on a substrate via an adhesive material satisfactorily. [Solution] A bonding device 10 for thermally bonding an electronic component 100 to a substrate 110 or to another electronic component via an adhesive material 112, the bonding device being provided with: a bonding tool 40 comprising a bonding distal-end portion 42 which includes a bonding surface 44 and tapered side surfaces 46 formed in a tapering shape becoming narrower toward the bonding surface 44, the bonding surface 44 having a first suction hole 50 for suction-attaching the electronic component 100 via an individual piece of a porous sheet 130, the tapered side surfaces 46 having second suction holes 52, 54 for suction-attaching the porous sheet 130; and a bonding control unit 30 which controls the first suction hole 50 and the second suction holes 52, 54 independently from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu WATANABE, Tomonori NAKAMURA, Toru MAEDA, Satoru NAGAI, Yuichiro NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200411352
    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: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei SEYAMA, Tetsuya UTANO, Yuichiro NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200388046
    Abstract: This wire shape inspecting apparatus comprises a camera which captures an image of a wire from above, a light which illuminates the wire from above, and a control unit, wherein the control unit performs: an inspection image acquiring process of acquiring a plurality of inspection images by causing the camera to capture images of the wire a plurality of times while changing a focal distance; and a first shape detecting process of identifying, in each inspection image, a light emitting portion, which is an image part including reflected light comprising light from the light that has been reflected by the wire, and identifying an actual light emitting portion position, which is the actual position of the light emitting portion, on the basis of the position of the light emitting portion in the inspection image and the focal distance when the inspection image was acquired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru AMEMIYA
  • Publication number: 20200388521
    Abstract: A pick-up device 10 for picking up a semiconductor chip 100 attached to a front surface of a sheet material 110 is provided with: a stage 12 that includes a material a part or the entirety of which is capable of transmitting a destaticizing electromagnetic wave having an ionization effect and that attracts and holds a rear surface of the sheet material 110; a jacking-up pin 26 for jacking up the semiconductor chip 100 from the rear side of the stage 12; and a destaticizing mechanism 20 that destaticizes charge generated between the semiconductor chip 100 and the sheet material 110 by irradiating the rear surface of the semiconductor chip 100 with the destaticizing electromagnetic wave that is made to pass through the sheet material 110 from the rear side of the stage 12.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuyuki MATSUNO, Tomonori NAKAMURA, Shin TAKAYAMA, Hiroshi OMATA
  • Publication number: 20200373275
    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: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: SHINKAWA LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei SEYAMA