A wire bonding apparatus (100) includes a bonding stage (12), a bonding head (20), an XY driving mechanism (30), and a frame (50). The XY driving mechanism (30) includes: an X-direction guide (31) installed to the frame (50); an X-direction slider (32), supported by the X-direction guide (31) and moving in the X direction, an X-direction mover (41) being installed thereto; a Y-direction guide (33) installed to a lower side of the X-direction slider (32); and a Y-direction slider (34), supported by the Y-direction guide (33) and moving in the Y direction, the bonding head (20) being installed thereto. The XY driving mechanism (30) is installed to the frame (50), so that a portion of the Y-direction guide (33) is overlapped with a mounting surface (12a) of a bonding stage (12) above the mounting surface (12a) and behind the mounting stage (12) in the Y direction.

The invention relates to a device and a method for the alignment of substrates.

A bonding apparatus comprises a chip holding part that disposes a chip part onto a substrate that has been placed on a substrate stage. The bonding apparatus adjusts the inclination of a chip holding surface that releasably holds the chip part. The bonding apparatus comprises: an adjustment controller which stores inclination information pertaining to inclination respectively for locations on a stage main surface having the substrate placed thereon; and a conforming jig which has a conforming surface onto which the chip holding surface is pressed, and in which the inclination of the conforming surface can be changed such that the inclination of the chip holding surface corresponds to the inclination indicated by the inclination information.

A method of monitoring gas byproducts of a bonding system is provided. The method includes: providing a plurality of bonding systems, each of the bonding systems including a reducing gas delivery system for use in connection with a bonding operation, each of the bonding systems being configured for exhausting gas byproducts; connecting each of the bonding systems to a monitoring device using a respective gas delivery path; and monitoring a composition of at least a portion of the gas byproducts with the monitoring device.

The present disclosure provides a chip packaging device, a chip packaging method, and a package chip, and is related to a technical field of chip packaging. The chip packaging device includes conductive sheets, a vacuum suction movable assembly defining a variable suction surface, and a heating assembly. The variable suction surface sucks the plurality of conductive sheets. A first end of each of the conductive sheets is disposed above a corresponding bonding pads. A second end of each of the conductive sheets is disposed above a corresponding welding pin, so that when the variable suction surface is pressed down, the first end of each of the conductive sheets is pressed onto the corresponding bonding pad, and the second end of each of the conductive sheets is pressed onto the corresponding welding pin. The heating assembly heats solders on the bonding pads and the welding pins.

A wire bonding capillary made of materials of differing hardness.

A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: a first step of, after joining a wire to an electrode using a capillary, forming a wire part by moving the capillary to a third target pointwhile feeding out the wire; a second step of forming a bent part by moving the capillary to a fourth target point while feeding out the wire; a third step of processing the bent part into a planned cut part by repeating lowering and raising of the capillary for multiple times; and a fourth step of cutting the wire at the planned cut part by raising the capillary with a wire clamper closed to form a pin wire.

A wire bonding apparatus includes: a capillary, performing predetermined processing on a workpiece and movable with respect to the workpiece; an optical mechanism, moving together with the capillary; and a controller. The optical mechanism includes: a first imaging unit, acquiring a first image obtained by imaging a standard point set within an imaging range; and a second imaging unit, acquiring a second image obtained by imaging a reference point formed at a predetermined distance from the capillary. The controller positions the capillary with respect to the workpiece based on the first image, and calculates a positioning correction amount of the capillary based on the second image.

A wire bonding device for bonding a wire to a target includes: a prediction part which predicts, based on time-series data of a diagnosis result regarding an operation of the wire bonding device, a transition of a change from the diagnosis result in an initial state; and a setting part which sets a time point at which the prediction part predicts that an amount of change from the diagnosis result in the initial state reaches a first threshold value as a time point for performing maintenance of the wire bonding device. The wire bonding device allows the maintenance to be performed suitably.

A mounting head for bonding a chip to a bonding target includes: a mounting tool having a bottom surface which functions as a suction surface for sucking and holding the chip; a heater arranged on an upper surface of the mounting tool and heating the mounting tool; a cooling mechanism having a plurality of cooling channels which are independent of one another and guide a refrigerant respectively to a plurality of cooling areas set in the heater, and being capable of cooling the plurality of cooling areas independently of one another; and a controller controlling driving of the heater and the cooling mechanism. The controller independently controls a flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through the plurality of cooling channels so as to obtain a desired temperature distribution during heating of the heater.