Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Siew May Fong

Seok Hiong Tan

Chew Hsia Fung

The present invention is a method and apparatus for efficiently placing a respective fuzz button into each of a high number of button holes on a fuzz button contactor while also efficiently filtering out defectively shaped fuzz buttons. The fuzz buttons are placed into rows of a predetermined number of button holes on the fuzz button contactor. A slot plate has the predetermined number of slots aligned as a row of slots, and fuzz buttons are placed into each of the slots of the slot plate. The present invention also includes a contactor jig having at least one row of the predetermined number of jig holes. These jig holes are disposed on the contactor jig as a mirror image of the at least one row of the predetermined number of button holes on the fuzz button contactor when the contactor jig is properly aligned with the fuzz button contactor. The slots of the slot plate are aligned with a row of jig holes, and the slot plate is tilted such that a respective fuzz button slides from a respective slot of the slot plate into each empty jig hole of the row of jig holes. The transfer of a respective fuzz button from a respective slot of the slot plate into each empty jig hole of a row of jig holes is repeated for each of the rows of the predetermined number of jig holes on the contactor jig. The contactor jig having completely filled jig holes is properly aligned with the fuzz button contactor having empty button holes. A dummy integrated circuit package is pushed into the contactor jig after the fuzz button contactor has been properly aligned with the contactor jig. The dummy integrated circuit package has a respective pin that pushes out a respective fuzz button within each jig hole on the contactor jig into a respective button hole on the fuzz button contactor such that a respective fuzz button is placed into each of the button holes on the fuzz button contactor.

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