Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a restorable contact structure suited for temporary connection with an electronic component such as a semiconductor die, subjected to aging and functional tests. SOLUTION: The contact structure having restorable and tractable properties for various electronic components is formed by bonding a free end of a wire 502 to a substrate 508, disposing the wire to form a wire stem having an elastic form, cutting the wire stem and providing a protective film by at least one layer of a certain material on the wire stem 530. In an illustrative embodiment: the free end of the wire stem is bonded to a contact region on the substrate; the wire stem is constructed to have an elastic form; the wire stem is cut by discharge to be free-standing; and applying, by deposition, the protective film to the free-standing wire stem. Various materials are disclosed as materials to be used for the wire stem (functioning as a foothold) and the protective film (functioning as an upper structure over the foothold). COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make it possible to use a contact structure directly attached to active silicon equipment, and especially, an elastic contact structure. SOLUTION: In a semiconductor package assembly 611, a board 612 which comprises conductive contact pads on a first surface and a second surface and which is composed of an insulating material is contained. In addition, a plurality of semiconductor devices 621 which comprise contact pads faced with the contact pads on the first surface and the second surface of the board 612 are contained. In addition, elastic contact structures 626 by which the contact pads of the semiconductor devices 621 and contact pads held by the board 612 are electrically connected to each other, and which are used to support the semiconductor devices in positions at intervals from the surface of the board 612 in such a way that the semiconductor devices 621 exist on a first parallel plane and a second parallel plane on both sides of the board 612 are contained. In addition, contact means 616 which are held by the board 612 and which form electrical contacts with the semiconductor devices 621 via the contact structures 626 are contained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a contact mechanism to a wafer in which a semiconductor is suitably aged at a stage of a wafer. SOLUTION: A plurality of free-standing mutual contact elements 710 such as contact bumps or free-standing spring contacts including both monolithic and composite interconnection elements are mounted to relatively small tile substrates 702 which are then mounted and connected to a relatively large electronic component substrate 706, thereby stationing a plurality of contact elements to an electronic component. In this manner, pressure connections can be made to an entire semiconductor wafer, at once, to provide for wafer-stage aging and the like. Further, solder balls, a z-axis conductive adhesive, or compliant connections are suitably employed for making electrical connections between the tile substrates 702 and the electronic component. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for probing semiconductor devices. SOLUTION: This probe card assembly 500 is constituted from a probe card 502 and a space converter 506. The space converter 506 has a restorable contact structure (probe element) 524 mounted directly on the surface and elongating from the surface. An interposer 504 is disposed between the space converter 506 and the probe card 502. The space transformer 506 and the interposer 504 are piled so that orientation of the space transformer 506, namely, orientation of the tip of the probe element 524, can be adjusted without changing orientation of the probe card 502. Proper mechanisms 532, 534, 538, 546 for adjusting the orientation of the space transformer 506 and determining the degree of adjustment are provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide improved technology to manufacture a spring contact element. SOLUTION: A microelectronic contact structural body is lithographically demarcated by applying a substrate 202 such as an electronic component, preparing an opening 222 on its mask layer 220, depositing the conductive trace of a seed layer 250 on the mask layer and in the opening, and building a mass of a conductive material on the conductive trace. The sidewall of the opening may be inclined. The conductive trace can be patterned by depositing a material through the stencil or a shadow mask 240. A protruding fixture 230 can be disposed on the mask layer so that the tip part of the contact structural body obtains topology. Plural elastic contact structural bodies precisely positioned can be formed by entirely composing these components as a group.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To directly assemble a spring contact on an active electronic component such as a semiconductor device. SOLUTION: The spring contact component is assembled by depositing at least one layer of metal materials in side an opening formed on the surface of a substrate, which can be made into electronic component such as an active semiconductor device, with a deposited mask layer. Each of spring contact components has a bottom end, a contact end and a main body. The contact ends have steps on a z-axis (at different heights) and a step in one x-axis or y-axis direction from the bottom ends. Thus, a plurality of spring contact components are assembled keeping a specified spatial relation with the other components on the substrate. The spring contact component is formed with a temporary or eternal connection with the terminal of the other electronic component so as to provide electric connection between them. The spring contact component is located on a semiconductor device existent on a semiconductor wafer for burn-in and/or test the semiconductor device by performing temporary connection with the semiconductor device.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form a solder ball and/or an uplifted solder bump on an electronic component, especially on a chip carrier or a semiconductor package, by forming mutually connected elements, especially spring elements, and mounting the mutually connected elements on the electronic component. SOLUTION: In a performing pattern 200 of a mutually connected element 210 which is mounted on an electronic component 212 wherein a terminal 214 is provided, one end of a soft wire core of gold or the like is bonded to the terminal 214. The core is extended from the terminal and formed so as to have the spring shape and cut so as to have the free end. The bonding, molding and cutting of the wire are performed by using a wire bonding device. The adhesive agent at an end part 216a of the core covers only the relatively small part of the exposed surface of the terminal 214. A shell is arranged along the wire core 16 and has an inner layer 218 and an outer layer 220 when multilayered pattern is formed. The both layers can be formed adequately by the plating process.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a microelectronic contact structure and its manufacturing method. SOLUTION: The method for mounting two or more spring contact elements to the terminals of an electronic component includes fabricating the two or more spring contact elements on a sacrificial substrate, then mounting the parts of the spring contact elements to the terminals of the electronic component while the spring contact elements are on the sacrificial substrate, and removing the sacrificial substrate after the parts of the spring contact elements are mounted to the terminals of the electronic component. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for applying a probe onto a semiconductor element, wherein the tip of a probe element can be oriented without changing the position of a probe card. SOLUTION: The probe card assembly includes: the probe card (electronic component) having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a plurality of terminals in the upper surface; an intervening body (electronic component) having an upper surface, a lower surface, a first plurality of restorable contact structures extending from terminals in the lower surface, and a second plurality of restorable contact structures extending from terminals in the upper surface; and an interval changer having an upper surface, a lower surface, a plurality of contact pads (terminals) provided on the lower surface, and a third restorable contact structure (probe element) extending from a terminal in the upper surface. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor package assembly having an improved contact structure. SOLUTION: A semiconductor assembly 611 includes; a substrate 612 made of an insulating material which has conductive contact pads formed on its first surface and second surface; a plurality of semiconductor devices 612 having contact pads opposite to the contact pads on the first and second surfaces of the substrate 612; a spring contact structure 626 for electrically interconnecting the contact pads of the semiconductor devices 612 and the contact pads held by the substrate 612 and for supporting the semiconductor devices at positions spaced from the surface of the substrate 612 such that the semiconductor devices 612 are placed on the first and second planes in parallel each other which are both sides of the substrate 612; and a contact means 616 held by the substrate 612 for forming an electrical contact to the semiconductor devices 612 through the contact structure 626. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI