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Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2020
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yusuke Matsumoto, Fujisawa, JP;

Kenichi Murata, Ebina, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 1/005 (2006.01); B23K 1/00 (2006.01); B23K 3/06 (2006.01); B23K 35/02 (2006.01); B23K 26/14 (2014.01); B23K 3/04 (2006.01); B23K 101/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K 1/0056 (2013.01); B23K 1/0016 (2013.01); B23K 3/04 (2013.01); B23K 3/0623 (2013.01); B23K 26/1476 (2013.01); B23K 35/0244 (2013.01); B23K 2101/42 (2018.08);
Abstract

A solder ball bonding (SBB) tool includes a rotatable feed plate for transporting solder balls from a translatable solder ball reservoir to a nozzle unit, which is a position at which a laser light source can irradiate and thus melt the solder balls. The SBB tool includes a gap between the reservoir and the feed plate positioned over the reservoir, and a feed mechanism coupled with the reservoir, where the feed mechanism is driven by a pressurized gas to translate the reservoir upward across at least a portion of the gap in preparation for movement of a solder ball to the feed plate and downward in preparation for rotation of the feed plate after a solder ball is moved to the feed plate. The gap may have a maximum size that exceeds a nominal size of the solder balls contained in the reservoir.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Matsumoto, Yusuke. (2023). Reliable transportation mechanism for micro solder balls (U.S. Patent No. 11780022). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11780022

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