Metal fusion bonding – Process – Plural joints
Patent
1992-04-16
1993-09-14
Ramsey, Kenneth J.
Metal fusion bonding
Process
Plural joints
228 563, 228253, 427 96, 427282, B23K 120
Patent
active
052441431
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method are described for injection molding solder mounds onto electronic devices. The apparatus has a reservoir for molten solder which is disposed over a cavity in an injection plate. The injection plate is disposed over a mold having an array of cavities therein into which solder in injection molded. The mold is disposed over a workpiece, such as a semiconductor chip or a semiconductor chip packaging substrate. The cavities in the mold are aligned with electrical contact locations on the chip or substrate. The workpiece is heated and the molten solder is forced under gas pressure into the cavity in the injection plate disposed above the array of cavities in the mold. The molten solder is forced into the array of cavities in the mold. The injection plate is advanced to slide over the mold to wipe away the excess solder above the mold at a plurality of wiping apertures in the injection plate. The injection plate is further advanced to a location having a nonsolder wettable surface at which location the injection plate is removed. The mold is then removed to leave solder mounds disposed on the workpiece. The workpiece can be a semiconductor chip, a semiconductor chip packaging substrate or a dummy substrate onto which the injected molded solder adheres such as a polymer layer to form a carrier substrate for a solder mound array which can be subsequently transferred to a substrate such as a semiconductor chip or a semiconductor chip packaging substrate. The apparatus and methods of the present invention can be integrated into an automated manufacturing system for depositing an array of solder mounds onto a substrates.
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Ference Thomas G.
Gruber Peter A.
Hernandez Bernardo
Palmer Michael J.
Zingher Arthur R.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Morris Daniel P.
Ramsey Kenneth J.
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