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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank A Lindberg, Baltimore, MD (US);
Assignee:
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B23K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219 5622 ; 219 5621 ; 219 8651 ; 219 / ; 228179 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for bonding a plurality of metallic leads to pads of a chip where the force of a thermode, which is placed in contact with the chip is increased at a first rate to a maximum force less than required to effect the bonding over a time period required to bring the metallic leads and pads close to bonding temperature, and then increasing the uniform force at a rate greater than the first rate to a force sufficient to effect the bonding. The apparatus includes a chip holder arrangement that is mounted to automatically align to the plane of the bonding thermode to provide for uniform deformities to the bump portions of the bond.