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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:
Sep. 13, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenji Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Shinkawa, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
356372 ; 356384 ;
Abstract
A method of inspecting wires bonded between the pads of a semiconductor chip and the leads of a lead frame taking the steps of: bringing the focus of an optical assembly into a desired point of a bonded wire, thus obtaining the height of such a desired point of the wire as a reference; photographing an image of the wire at the reference height; and then obtaining the height of the wire based upon the amount of the indistinct image of the photographed wire.