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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. 20, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
ESEC Trading SA, Cham, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25B 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25B 1/100 ;
Abstract
A Die Bonder or Wire Bonder has a suction device for pulling flat and holding down a curved substrate equipped with or to be equipped with a semiconductor chip onto a supporting surface of a plate. The plate contains at least one cavity open towards the supporting surface in which there is a vacuum gripper made out of flexible material, whereby the vacuum gripper is lowerable into the cavity during transport of the substrate and which is raisable above the level of the supporting surface to apply suction to the substrate.