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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2006
Hiroshi Nakayama, Nagano, JP;
Mitsuhiro Nagaya, Nagano, JP;
Yoshio Yamada, Nagano, JP;
NHK Spring Co., Ltd., Yokohama-shi, JP;
Abstract
A probe card includes probes that come into contact with a semiconductor wafer to receive or output an electric signal; a probe head that holds the probes; a substrate that has a wiring pattern corresponding to a circuit structure for generating a signal for a test; a reinforcing member that reinforces the substrate; an interposer that is stacked on the substrate and includes a housing having connection terminals resilient in an axial direction thereof and hole portions each housing one of the connection terminals; and a space transformer that is stacked between the interposer and the probe head and transforms intervals among the wires.