In-line package apparatuses and methods
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMin-Ill Kim, Jong-Gi Lee, Kwang-Yong Lee, Ki-Kwon Jeong
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Abstract
An in-line package apparatus includes a first treating unit, an input storage unit, a heating unit and an output storage unit. The first treating unit performs a ball attach process or a chip mount process. A processing object that a process is completed in the first treating unit is received in a magazine so as to be vertically stacked and a plurality of magazines each having one or more processing objects is stored in an input stacker. The heating unit performs a reflow process on the processing objects in the magazine stored in the input stacker by an induction heating method. A processing object that a reflow process is completed is received in a magazine and then stored in an output stacker.
Claims22
An in-line package apparatus, comprising:
- a first treating unit to treat one or more processing objects;
- a heating unit including a heating member to heat the one or more processing objects using an induction heating method so as to perform a reflow process of a solder ball of the one or more processing objects treated in the first treating unit, the heating member including a coil and a power supply to apply an alternating current to the coil;
- an input storage unit disposed between the first treating unit and the heating unit to store the one or more processing objects treated in the first treating unit;
- and
- a moving unit to transfer the one or more processing objects stored in the input storage unit to the heating unit,
- wherein the input storage unit comprises:
- one or more magazines having slots formed therein to receive the one or more processing objects to be stacked and separated from each other;
- an input port disposed to be adjacent to the first treating unit to support the one or more magazines;
- and
- an input stacker disposed between the input port and the heating unit and
- providing a plurality of spaces into which the one or more magazines are received, and
- wherein the first treating unit, the heating unit, and the input storage unit are arranged sequentially in a straight line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.