Patents by Inventor Dale Ohmart

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

  • Patent number: 11573266
    Abstract: A system includes a platform and a contactor. The platform has a side configured to support a frame with a carrier structure and electronic devices each having first and second sides and a terminal, the first side positioned on the carrier structure, and the terminal exposed in a first portion of the second side. The contactor has first and second sides, a contact and a heater. The contact is exposed on the first side of the contactor to contact the terminal in a first portion of the second side of a selected one of the electronic devices, and the heater is exposed on the first side of the contactor to apply heat to a second portion of the second side of the selected one of the electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dale Ohmart, Marshall Worrall
  • Publication number: 20210199712
    Abstract: A system includes a platform and a contactor. The platform has a side configured to support a frame with a carrier structure and electronic devices each having first and second sides and a terminal, the first side positioned on the carrier structure, and the terminal exposed in a first portion of the second side. The contactor has first and second sides, a contact and a heater. The contact is exposed on the first side of the contactor to contact the terminal in a first portion of the second side of a selected one of the electronic devices, and the heater is exposed on the first side of the contactor to apply heat to a second portion of the second side of the selected one of the electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Dale Ohmart, Marshall Worrall
  • Patent number: 10388609
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method to detect pick and place indexing errors on each manufacturing batch (lot) of semiconductor wafer processed during a die attach process using a preselected skeleton of check die. The known locations of the check skeleton die are verified during picking of die from the wafer. If the check skeleton cannot be correctly verified at the known locations, then a pick error is indicated. The embodiments may be implemented on existing die attach equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dale Ohmart, Balamurugan Subramanian, Renato Heracleo Orduna Leano, Sonny Evangelista Dipasupil, Ronald Jay V. Peralta
  • Publication number: 20160141251
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a semiconductor wafer with information for detecting a die attach pick error on the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer has a plurality of electrical chips. The semiconductor wafer also has a die map with a plurality of locations of a set of pre-selected check good electrical chips (CGEC) die from the plurality of electrical chips on the semiconductor wafer and flat edge orientation marker. A reference feature located in a predetermined area of the semiconductor wafer. A reference die is located in a known spatial relationship to the reference feature. The die map is defined relative to the location of the reference die on the semiconductor wafer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Dale Ohmart, Balamurugan Subramanian, Renato Heracleo Orduna Leano, Sonny Evangelista Dipasupil, Ronald Jay V. Peralta
  • Patent number: 9229058
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method to detect pick and place indexing errors on each manufacturing batch (lot) of semiconductor wafer processed during a die attach process using a preselected skeleton of check die. The known locations of the check skeleton die are verified during picking of die from the wafer. If the check skeleton cannot be correctly verified at the known locations, then a pick error is indicated. The embodiments may be implemented on existing die attach equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dale Ohmart, Balamurugan Subramanian, Renato Heracleo Orduna Leano, Sonny Evangelista Dipasupil, Ronald Jay V. Peralta
  • Publication number: 20140002128
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method to detect pick and place indexing errors on each manufacturing batch (lot) of semiconductor wafer processed during a die attach process using a preselected skeleton of check die. The known locations of the check skeleton die are verified during picking of die from the wafer. If the check skeleton cannot be correctly verified at the known locations, then a pick error is indicated. The embodiments may be implemented on existing die attach equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Dale Ohmart, Balamurugan Subramanian, Renato Heracleo Orduna Leano, Sonny Evangelista Dipasupil, Ronald Jay V. Peralta