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Wire bonder

Details

Inventors: Tyler, Arthur W.;
Assignee: The Computervision Corporation (Bedford, MA)
Primary Examiner: Corbin; John K.
Assistant Examiner: Punter; Wm. H.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Birch; Richard J.

A thermocompression, tailless wire bonder which permits the bonding operation to take place at any location along the path of the bonding tool without affecting the length of wire protruding below the bonding tool or the location of the end of the wire relative to the torch. A non-frictional wire tensioning device is employed to produce a constant and adjustable tension on the bonding wire. A virtual image, parallax free, optical positioning system is utilized to position the bonding tool.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is: 1.
An optical positioning apparatus for a tool which is movable along a path with respect to the surface of a workpiece, said optical positioning system comprising: means for generating a virtual image of a straight line reference pattern superimposed on the surface of the workpiece, said virtual image being perpendicular to the surface of the workpiece; and, means for maintaining a predetermined physical relationship between the movement path of the tool and the virtual image generated by said image generating means.
2.
The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said straight line reference pattern is a light generating incandescent lamp filament.
3.
The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said virtual image generating means includes a cylindrical mirror and wherein said reference pattern straight line is a virtual image of a light generating incandescent lamp filament formed by said cylindrical mirror.
4.
The apparatus of claim 3 wherein said straight line reference pattern includes a reference point along its length.
5.
The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said reference point comprises an interrupted segment in said line.
6.
The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said straight line is a light generating means.
7.
The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said virtual image has a uniform cross-section.
8.
The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said reference pattern produces a virtual image which has a uniform cross-section for intersecting planes parallel to a planar workpiece surface whereby the reference pattern is free of parallax error for a plurality of parallel workpiece surfaces.
9.
The apparatus of claim 6 wherein said straight line reference pattern includes a reference point along its length.
10.
The apparatus of claim 9 wherein said reference point comprises an interrupted segment in said line.
11.
The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said interrupted segment is the sufficient length that the virtual image of the reference pattern appears as two spaced illuminated dots

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