Method for replacing capillary
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoungsik Kim, Doojin Kim, Seokho Lee, Younggon Hwang
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Abstract
A method for replacing a capillary of a wire bonding apparatus that includes a holding unit that holds a capillary includes transferring a capillary replacing unit to the wire bonding apparatus by a mobile robot in response to receiving a capillary replacement start signal from the wire bonding apparatus, separating, by the capillary replacing unit, the capillary corresponding to the replacement signal from the wire bonding apparatus, and installing, by the capillary replacing unit, a new capillary in the wire bonding apparatus.
Claims15
A method for replacing a capillary of a wire bonding apparatus that includes a holding unit that holds a capillary, the method comprising:
- transferring a capillary replacing unit to the wire bonding apparatus by a mobile robot in response to receiving a capillary replacement start signal from the wire bonding apparatus;
- separating, by the capillary replacing unit, the capillary corresponding to the replacement start signal from the wire bonding apparatus;
- acquiring, by the wire bonding apparatus, an image of a new capillary gripped in a gripper of the capillary replacing unit to obtain position information of the new capillary;
- aligning an insertion hole of the holding unit and the new capillary with each other using the position information, and
- installing, by the capillary replacing unit, the new capillary in the wire bonding apparatus.
A method for replacing a capillary of a wire bonding apparatus using a capillary replacing unit loaded on a mobile robot, the method comprising:
- receiving a capillary replacement start signal from at least one of a plurality of wire bonding apparatuses;
- autonomously moving the mobile robot that received the replacement start signal to the wire bonding apparatus that transmitted the replacement start signal to load the capillary replacing unit onto the wire bonding apparatus;
- separating, by the capillary replacing unit, the capillary corresponding to the replacement start signal from the wire bonding apparatus;
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- installing, by the capillary replacing unit, a new capillary in the wire bonding apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.