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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2008
Masayuki Yamamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Naoki Ishii, Kameyama, JP;
Masayuki Yamamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Naoki Ishii, Kameyama, JP;
Nitto Denko Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus of this invention includes: a workpiece holding mechanism that holds a ring frame and a wafer; a tape supplying device that supplies a continuous dicing tape or a continuous carrier tape to which a precut dicing tape is joined, to a joining position; a joining unit that joins the continuous dicing tape or the precut dicing tape separated from the carrier tape, to the ring frame and the semiconductor wafer; a tape cutting mechanism that cuts the dicing tape joined to the ring frame along a contour of the ring frame; and a residual tape collecting section that takes up and collects a residual tape after the cutting.