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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8091876 | Fixture for securing optoelectronic packages for wire and/or component bonding Generally, a fixture for securing optoelectronic packages may be used to secure one or more optoelectronic packages for mounting one or more components and/or one or more wires to at least first and second mounting surfaces at different relative angles. The fixture ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087652 | Substrate supporting apparatus A substrate supporting apparatus includes first and second shafts spaced by a distance that corresponds to or exceeds a width of a substrate, and at least one wire to support the substrate. The wire has ends coupled to respective ones of the first and second shafts.... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8028978 | Wafer handling system A semiconductor wafer processing system has a carrier including wafer slots. A process robot engages the carrier and installs the carrier into a rotor within a process chamber. The rotor has a tapered or stepped inside surface matching a tapered or stepped outside s... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7438286 | Workpiece holding jig A workpiece holding jig for holding a workpiece having a plurality of first dividing lines extending in a predetermined direction and a plurality of second dividing lines formed in a direction intersecting the plurality of first dividing lines on the workpiece holdi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7377049 | Aligning apparatus An aligning apparatus includes a loading plate to load at least one alignment object; first and second alignment bars to align the at least one alignment object loaded on the loading plate, wherein the first and second alignment bars are bent by a force greater than... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7331097 | Method of manufacturing a workpiece chuck A workpiece chuck includes an upper assembly on which can be mounted a flat workpiece such as a semiconductor wafer. A lower assembly is mountable to a base that supports the chuck. A non-constraining attachment means such as vacuum, springs or resilient washers app... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7316390 | Conduit clamping device A conduit clamping device has an elongated substantially rigid base having a longitudinal axis. At least one axially extending elongated generally U-shaped channel is formed in the base and sized to receive at least a portion of a length of conduit of a given diamet... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7249410 | Electric cable splicing system A system for splicing together heavy duty electric cables, especially underground cables, consisting of a static friction block and a clamping friction block located on ends of cables to be spliced. A block and tackle mechanism is interposed between the friction blo... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7240434 | Stage apparatus A stage apparatus may include a first stage, a second stage movable with respect to the first stage, at least one flexure hinge to connect the first stage with the second stage, a plurality of actuators provided between the first stage and the second stage to push t... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7240438 | Aligning apparatus An aligning apparatus includes a loading plate to load at least one alignment object; first and second alignment bars to align the at least one alignment object loaded on the loading plate, wherein the first and second alignment bars are bent by a force greater than... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7223162 | Holder for wafers The present invention provides a holder (20) for wafers (14) which makes it possible to more easily manipulate the wafer (14) and makes it more suitable than prior art devices for to liquid handling, wafer handling and on-wafer manipulation of s... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210924 | Heat treatment system and a method for cooling a loading chamber There is provided a vertical heat treatment system capable of simplifying the structure of various mechanisms in the vicinity of an opening which is formed in a partition wall separating a housing-box transfer area from a treating-object transfer area (a wafer trans... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7107672 | Method of mounting electronic parts on a flexible printed circuit board A plurality of flexible printed circuit boards are held on a transfer carrier, which is formed by a base plate and a resin layer formed on an upper surface of the base plate. Reference pins are positioned at reference pin openings of the carrier base plate and refer... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7077908 | Substrate holder In a substrate holder for holding a circuit board onto which a viscous material for bonding electronic components is printed by use of a squeegee through a screen mask, a first holding area for holding the screen mask and a second holding area for holding the circui... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7017896 | Jig for adjusting curvature of substrate Jig for adjusting curvature of a substrate permits to measure an amount of sag of the substrate coming from variation of a length of the slot or the support bar by varying the length of the slot or the support bar, thereby permitting easy fabrication of the cassette... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7015066 | Method for stress reduction in flip chip bump during flip chip mounting and underfill process steps of making a microelectronic assembly A method of making a microelectronic assembly buying restraining a substrate in a fixture at room temperature, placing a flip chip on the substrate so that conductive bumps on the flip chip are aligned with contact pads on the substrate, heating the flip chip, the s... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6996898 | Method of using a self-adjusting printed circuit board support A printed circuit board support including a first member having a planar upper surface for supporting a printed circuit board. At least one second member is movably coupled to a first side of the first member and movable toward and away from the side of the movable ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6990730 | System for mounting terminals with electric wires in a connector housing A process and system for mounting terminals with electric wires in cavities of connector housings. Press-connecting terminals are initially loaded in cavities arranged in an upper surface of a connector jig and electric wires are press-connected on the terminals in ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6992876 | Electrostatic chuck and its manufacturing method An electrostatic chuck for preventing warpage of a ceramic layer and cooling gas leakage while providing enhanced electrostatic attraction and an improved detachment performance and its manufacturing method is disclosed. The chuck comprises at least one electrode ( | 01/31/2006 |
| 6984974 | Independently-adjustable circuit board carrier A carrier of circuit boards includes a base frame having a plurality of first card guides disposed on its upper surface, the first card guides for securing respective first side edges of a corresponding plurality of circuit boards, a plurality of second card guides ... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6967497 | Wafer processing apparatuses and electronic device workpiece processing apparatuses The present invention includes an electronic device workpiece processing apparatus and method of communicating signals within an electronic device workpiece processing apparatus. One embodiment of an electronic device workpiece processing apparatus includes a chuck ... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6945151 | Integrated circuit package separators A base having a plurality of pins extending upwardly therefrom is provided. A support is provided over the base. The support has an upper surface and a plurality of holes extending therethrough. The pins extend through the holes and upwardly beyond the upper surface... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6946604 | Template for preparing a wire harness A template for preparing a wiring harness allows for quick and accurate preparation of the harness for subsequent installation within a vehicle. The template has a base member with one or more stations attached thereto, the stations having channels and some disconti... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6939131 | Support for a part to be subjected to heat treatment in an oven, and a method of heat treating a metal part A support slug (2) used for the heat treatment of a part (3), particularly for the hardening of a steel part, comprises a guide element (221) that is used to guide the part (3) towards a supporting surface (230) of the support slug... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6930731 | Video appliance, holding device, and manufacturing method of holding device A cathode-ray tube (CRT) holding device holds a CRT from the rear side by a rib section having a shape similar to that of a funnel of the CRT and extending in plural directions. The rib section has a section having shaped in a recessed groove, and a degaussing coil ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6904670 | Frame jig for a connector A frame jig for a connector is provided in order to be able to easily confirm the kinds of electric wires to be inserted in a connector and the installation locations. The frame jig for a connector includes a holder having a recess and apertures adjacent every locat... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6877650 | Compliant wirebond pedestal A wire bonder (900) with a rigid pedestal (902) having resilient inserts (920). A package (904) placed on the pedestal (902) contains an electrical device (906). The bond pads on the electrical device (906) are electr... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6814808 | Carrier for semiconductor wafers A quartz carrier having spaced, parallel grooved rods for holding a batch of semi-conductor wafers edgewise in upstanding, spaced, parallel relation is formed with a pair of flat end plates supporting the ends of the rods. The ends of the end plates extend laterally... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6796879 | Dual wafer-loss sensor and water-resistant sensor holder A dual semiconductor wafer slippage, or loss, and water-resistant sensor holder for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) semiconductor fabrication equipment is disclosed. The holder has a body and a cover. The body is designed to hold two wafer slippage sensors at an... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6792675 | Apparatus for aligning and soldering connectors to a printed board The present invention relates to an apparatus that proactively ensures alignment (parallelism) of the connectors on the circuit board during the solder assembly of the connectors to the circuit board. The apparatus includes an alignment fixture that has been specifi... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6785958 | Wire harness loosening jig A jig for loosening electric wires of a wire harness passed through a grommet is disclosed. The jig includes a fixing-side clamping portion for clamping the one end of a wire harness, a guide rail extending in a longitudinal direction of the wire harness, a bearing ... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6775904 | Supporting pin for supporting substrates in automatic equipment units Substrates are supported by height-adjustable supporting pins in automated equipping units. The supporting pins are composed of a tip and a foot part that is spring-borne relative to the tip. When the supporting pins are placed against an underside of the substrate,... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6752391 | Customizable nest with the option of conversion to a permanent nest A reconfigurable and customizable nest for a device under test. The reconfigurable nest includes a non-metallic nest plate and nesting blocks. The nesting blocks are positioned around the device under test using removable fastening elements such as double-stick tape... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6752390 | Stabilizer tool for fiber optic cable A tool for stabilizing slack fiber cable that has been withdrawn from a cable duct includes an inner sleeve portion for stabilizing the end portion of the cable remaining in the duct and a collar that is coupled to the sleeve and attaches to the exterior periphery o... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6748990 | Method and apparatus for waterproofing a wire harness A plurality of electric wires of a wire harness have a filler applied to predetermined waterproofing portions thereof. A sheet is wound on a peripheral surface of a bundle of electric wires to which the filler has been applied, and the sheet-wound waterproofing port... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6741447 | Wafer space supporting apparatus installed on electrostatic chuck and method for fabricating the same A wafer space supporting apparatus is installed on a support chuck to relieve physical stress caused by thermal expansion or contraction of an object to be fabricated and adjusts itself to support the object to compensate for thermal expansion and contraction as wel... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6722020 | Workpiece table assembly A workpiece table assembly is configured to hold a plurality of workpieces (e.g. conductive strands) so that the workpieces can be modified (e.g. bent). In one embodiment, the workpiece table assembly advantageously comprises a table, a saddle, a lift mechanism, and... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6711810 | Method of assembling a land grid array module A method in which an alignment tool consisting of a nest and guide tool is used to align an LGA module in the nest and then the LGA module is removed from the nest and aligned with a circuit card by the use of the guide tool. ... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6711796 | Circuit board stripper A circuit board stripper includes a deck having a top pattern plate for supporting circuit boards. The deck defines a plurality of first through-holes and the pattern plate defines a plurality of second through-holes aligned with the first through-holes. A slider is... | 03/30/2004 |
| 6708965 | Adjustable coarse alignment tooling for packaged semiconductor devices An apparatus and method for positioning packaged semiconductor devices having different rectangular shapes and sizes. A positioning apparatus includes an adjustable alignment guide releasably coupled to a base. The adjustable alignment guide may be positioned along ... | 03/23/2004 |
