Electric heating – Metal heating – Wire – rod – or bar bonding
Patent
1983-03-17
1986-01-14
Albritton, C. L.
Electric heating
Metal heating
Wire, rod, or bar bonding
219 561, B23K 3100
Patent
active
045647348
ABSTRACT:
A wire bonder useful for assembling electronic components with fine metallic wire. The wire bonder in accordance with this invention forms a ball at a free end of a bonding wire by utilizing discharge arc and thereafter bonds this ball to a component. The wire bonder of the invention has a construction in which the atmosphere between the tip of the bonding wire and a discharge electrode disposed adjacent the tip of the bonding wire can be maintained as a reducing gas atmosphere. Especially when an aluminum wire, which is an easily oxidizable thin metallic wire, is used as the bonding wire, the wire bonder of the present invention improves the sphericity of the ball formed by discharge arc as well as the bondability.
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Albritton C. L.
Hitachi , Ltd.
Sigda Catherine M.
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