JP2007208172A - Sheet pasting apparatus and pasting method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sheet pasting apparatus and pasting method in which the inside of the device can be cleaned by enabling a robot which operates a cutter blade as predetermined, to take a cleaning member while switching it. <P>SOLUTION: A sheet S is fed from a pasting unit 12 onto an upper face of a table 11 supporting a semiconductor wafer W, and the relevant sheet S is pasted on an upper face of the semiconductor wafer W. As the sheet S, a sheet sized to be protruded from the semiconductor wafer W is used and after being pasted, the sheet is cut in accordance with a shape of the semiconductor wafer W by a cutter blade 43 mounted at a free end side of a multi-joint robot 14 which is numerically controlled. The robot 14 is capable of switching the cutter blade 43 to a cleaning member 63 and taking it and this cleaning member 63 is moved along with a preset orbit, so that a foreign substance or dust on or around the table 11 with the cutting is cleaned and can be prevented from being mixed between the semiconductor wafer W and the sheet S. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a sheet sticking apparatus and a sticking method, and more particularly, a sheet sticking apparatus capable of sticking an adhesive sheet according to the shape of a plate-like member using a robot and cleaning the periphery of the plate-like member, and It relates to the pasting method.

  A plate-like member such as a semiconductor wafer (hereinafter, simply referred to as “wafer”) is used for die bonding in its manufacturing process, for example, when a protective sheet is affixed to its circuit surface during back grinding or when bonding to a lead frame. The sheet etc. are affixed.

  Such a sheet sticking device is disclosed in, for example, Patent Document 1. The pasting device disclosed in the document has a configuration in which a belt-like continuous sheet is pasted on the upper surface of the wafer while the wafer is supported on a table, and then a closed loop is cut with a cutter blade in accordance with the shape of the wafer. Yes. And the structure which winds up the sheet | seat part located in the outer side of a wafer as an unnecessary sheet | seat part by this cutting | disconnection is disclosed.

JP 2003-257898 A

  However, the configuration disclosed in Patent Document 1 does not take measures to remove foreign matters and dust that may be generated on the table that supports the wafer. Therefore, if foreign matter or dust is mixed between the wafer and the sheet for some reason, the wafer is damaged when the wafer is ground to the order of several tens of microns in the subsequent process. . Even if a simple foreign matter removing device is provided in the device by air blow and suction, the foreign matter cannot be removed to the details of the device.

[Object of invention]
The present invention has been devised by paying attention to such inconveniences, and an object of the present invention is to automatically clean the table supporting the wafer and the periphery thereof so as to prevent foreign matter between the wafer and the sheet. It is in providing the sheet sticking apparatus and the sticking method which are not mixed.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a sheet sticking device and a sticking method that can perform cleaning in detail by using a robot that moves a cutter blade in a predetermined manner.
Still another object of the present invention is to make it possible to remove an unnecessary sheet portion and transport a plate-like member by using the robot, and to provide a special winding device and a transport device. It is in providing the sheet sticking apparatus and sticking method which can wipe out.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is provided with a table for supporting a plate-like member, a sticking unit for sticking a sheet of a size protruding from the plate-like member to the plate-like member, and the sticking unit. Including an articulated robot that is numerically controlled,
The robot can adopt a configuration in which a cleaning member for removing the table and the surrounding foreign matter or dust is provided on the free end side thereof.

  Further, the robot may adopt a configuration in which a free cutting end and a cutter blade for cutting the sheet in accordance with the shape of the plate-like member are provided on the free end side so as to be selectively attachable. it can.

  In the present invention, the robot may be provided with a transfer member for transferring the plate-like member so as to be selectively mountable.

  The robot may further be provided with a removal member that removes an outer sheet portion generated by cutting with the cutter blade as an unnecessary sheet portion.

In addition, the present invention, after sticking a sheet of a size protruding from the plate-like member to the plate-like member,
After cutting the sheet according to the shape of the plate-like member with a cutter blade and removing the sheet portion outside the plate-like member as an unnecessary sheet portion, a cleaning member is attached to the free end side of the numerically controlled robot Then, a method of removing foreign matter or dust around the table and its periphery can be employed.

Furthermore, the present invention, after sticking a sheet of a size protruding from the plate member to the plate member,
After cutting the sheet according to the shape of the plate-like member with a cutter blade provided on the free end side of the numerically controlled robot, and removing the sheet portion outside the plate-like member as an unnecessary sheet portion, the robot However, it is possible to adopt a method in which the cutter blade is replaced with a cleaning member to remove the table and its surrounding foreign matter or dust.

  In the method, the unnecessary sheet portion can be removed by moving the cleaning member or cutter blade from the cleaning member to the removing member.

  Further, the plate-like member may be transported by the robot changing from a cutter blade, a removing member, or a cleaning member to a conveying member.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, it becomes possible to perform the cleaning on the table which supports a plate-shaped member, especially the cleaning to the detail, and prevent the possibility that a foreign material etc. will enter between a plate-shaped member and a sheet | seat effectively. be able to. Further, since the cleaning member is attached to the robot in place of the cutter blade, a dedicated cleaning device is not required, and the cleaning member is caused to perform a predetermined operation along a preset trajectory. Only enough cleaning can be done. This cleaning need not be performed every time a sheet is attached to the plate-like member, but can be set to be performed after a certain number of sheets have been processed. In this case, there is substantially no disadvantage that lowers the sheet sticking efficiency.

  In addition, when a removing member or a conveying member is mounted on the robot instead of the cutter blade, a take-up device that winds up an unnecessary sheet portion, a plate-like member placed on a table, or a sheet pasted A transport device for transferring the plate-like member can be eliminated, the device configuration can be simplified, and the degree of freedom in layout can be increased while avoiding positional interference between the constituent units.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a front view of the sticking device according to the present embodiment. In this figure, a sheet sticking apparatus 10 includes a table 11 that adsorbs and supports a wafer W as a plate-like member, and protection that is continuous in a strip shape on the circuit surface side (upper surface side) of the wafer W supported by the table 11. A pasting unit 12 for feeding and pasting a sheet S for use, and an articulated robot that cuts the sheet S in the width direction for each wafer W into a single wafer and cuts the sheet S in accordance with the shape of the wafer W 14.

  The table 11 is provided so as to be movable along a rail 16 laid in the X direction in FIG. 1 by a slider 17 and a motor (not shown), and a lower portion of the pasting unit 12 and an adjacent position of the robot 14 are provided. It is possible to move between.

  The table 11 is formed with a support surface of the wafer W as an adsorption surface, and a width direction cutting groove 11A for cutting the sheet S fed from the sticking unit 12 in the width direction into sheets. In addition, a circumferential cutting groove 11B along the outer edge of the wafer W is formed.

  The pasting unit 12 is provided in a region of a plate-like frame F arranged above the table 11. The affixing unit 12 includes a support roller 20 that supports the belt-like adhesive sheet S wound in a roll shape so as to be supplied, a drive roller 21 and a pinch roller 22 that apply a feeding force to the sheet S, and a sheet S A take-up roller 23 for winding the release sheet PS temporarily attached to the adhesive surface side, two guide rollers 24, 24 arranged between the support roller 20 and the pinch roller 22, and between these guide rollers 24, 24 The provided dancer roller 25, the pressing member 26 that presses the lead end region of the sheet S from which the release sheet PS has been peeled against the upper surface of the table 11 and sandwiches it, and the press that sequentially presses the sheet S against the upper surface side of the wafer W. And a roller 28. In addition, the lower surface side of the pressing member 26 has a suction portion, and sucks and holds the end portion of the sheet S.

  The drive roller 21 and the take-up roller 23 are driven to rotate by motors M1 and M2 provided on the back side of the frame F, respectively. The pressing member 26 and the press roller 28 are provided so as to be movable up and down via cylinders 32 and 33, respectively.

  The robot 14 includes a robot main body 42 and a cutter blade 43 supported on the free end side of the robot main body 42. The robot main body 42 includes a base portion 44, first arm 45A to sixth arm 45F disposed on the upper surface side of the base portion 44 and provided to be rotatable in the directions of arrows A to F, and tips of the sixth arm 45F. And a tool holding chuck 49 attached to the free end side of the robot body 42. The second, third, and fifth arms 45B, 45C, and 45E are rotatably provided in the X × Z plane in FIG. 1, and the first, fourth, and sixth arms 45A, 45D, and 45F are It is provided so as to be rotatable around its axis. The robot 14 in the present embodiment is subjected to numerical control, so-called NC control. That is, the amount of movement of each joint relative to the object (wafer in the present embodiment) is controlled by numerical information corresponding to each, and the amount of movement is all controlled by a program, as in conventional cutting means. This method uses a completely different method from that in which the position of the cutter blade is manually changed every time the wafer size is changed.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the tool holding chuck 49 is disposed at a position where the tool receiver 50 has a substantially cylindrical shape and is spaced approximately 120 intervals in the circumferential direction of the tool receiver 50, and attaches and detaches the cutter blade 43. It comprises three chuck claws 51 that are freely held. Each chuck claw 51 is formed as a pointed portion 51A having an acute inward end, and can be advanced and retracted in the radial direction with respect to the center of the tool receiver 50 by air pressure.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the cutter blade 43 includes a blade holder 43A that forms a base region, and a blade 43B that is inserted and fixed to the distal end side of the blade holder 43A. The blade holder 43A has a substantially cylindrical shape, and the tip-shaped portion 51A of the chuck claw 51 is engaged with a groove (not shown) formed at an outer circumferential position of approximately 120 degrees on the base side of the blade holder 43A. The direction of 43 is kept constant.

  A stock device 60 is disposed between the sticking unit 12 and the robot 14. The stock device 60 is provided so as to accommodate the cutter blade 43, and is selectively mounted on the free end side of the robot 14 as shown in FIGS. A removing member 62 for removing the portion, a cleaning member 63 for cleaning foreign matter or dust around the table 11 and its periphery, and a transfer member 64 for transferring the wafer W are accommodated.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the removing member 62 includes a pad holder 67 held by the tool holding chuck 49, a tube 68 provided continuously at the center of the tip of the pad holder 67, and a tip of the tube 68. And a provided suction pad 69. The removal member 62 is provided with a passage (not shown) inside. When the removal member 62 is attached to the robot body 42, the removal pad 62 communicates with a passage (not shown) provided in the robot body 42 to suck the suction pad 69. The unnecessary sheet portion is removed from the upper surface of the table 11 by exerting force.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the cleaning member 63 includes a nozzle holder 70 and a nozzle 71 connected to the tip of the nozzle holder 70, and the cleaning member 64 is the same as the removal member 62. In addition, when mounted on the robot body 42, the upper surface of the table 11 and its periphery can be cleaned in detail by exerting a suction force.

  As shown in FIG. 5, the conveying member 64 includes an arm holder 75 and a substantially Y-shaped suction arm 76 provided at the tip of the arm holder 75. An adsorption hole 76A is formed on the branched tip end side of the adsorption arm 76, and the wafer W can be transferred while being stably held by the adsorption by the adsorption hole 76A.

  Next, operation | movement of the sheet sticking apparatus 10 in this embodiment is demonstrated, also referring FIG. 6 thru | or FIG.

  As an initial setting, various data for determining the movement trajectories of the cutter blade 43, the removal member 62, the cleaning member 63, and the transfer member 64 are input to an input device (not shown) based on the outer dimensions of the wafer W.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 6A, the lead end region of the sheet S sucked and held on the lower surface side of the pressing member 26 in the state where the table 11 has reached a predetermined position below the sticking unit 12 is pressed. The member 26 descends to come into contact with the upper surface of the table 11, and after the completion of the contact, the press roller 28 descends and sandwiches the sheet S between the upper surface of the wafer W.

  Thereafter, the pressing member 26 is lifted by releasing the suction (see FIG. 6B). Then, when the table 11 moves to the right side in the figure, the sequentially fed sheets S are affixed to the upper surface of the wafer W, and when the pressing member 26 reaches the upper position immediately after passing the width direction cutting groove 11A. Then, the pressing member 26 starts the lowering operation (see FIG. 6C).

  Next, the pressing member 26 descends and presses the sheet S onto the table 11 (see FIG. 7A). Then, the cutter blade 43 attached to the robot 14 enters the width-direction cutting groove 11A, moves in the direction perpendicular to the sheet surface of FIG. 7B, and cuts the sheet S attached to the wafer W into a sheet. . When the cutting in the width direction of the sheet S is completed, the pressing member 26 adsorbs the sheet S portion located on the lower surface side and returns to the raised position to prepare for the next adhesion to the wafer W (FIG. 7C )reference). On the other hand, the cutter blade 43 is inserted into the circumferential cutting groove 11B, and in this state, the robot 14 cuts the sheet S in a closed loop shape according to the shape of the wafer W. By this cutting, an unnecessary sheet portion S1 is formed on the table 11 outside the wafer W. The upper surface of the table 11 is subjected to fluorine processing so that the sheet S does not adhere.

  When the sheet S is pasted, the robot 14 moves the cutter blade 43 in the stock device 60 while moving the cutter blade 43 to the removing member 62 housed in the stock device 60, as shown in FIG. Thus, the unnecessary sheet portion S1 is adsorbed. Then, the robot 14 swings to scrape off the unnecessary sheet portion S1, peels off the unnecessary sheet portion S1 from the upper surface of the table 11, and drops the unnecessary sheet portion S1 into the collection box 90 provided therewith.

  Next, the robot 14 accommodates the removing member 62 in the stock device 60, and performs a transfer operation to the cleaning member 63 accommodated therein. As shown in FIG. 9, the robot 14 that has moved to the cleaning member 63 accesses the tip of the nozzle 71 in particular detail, such as the width direction cutting groove 11 </ b> A and the circumferential direction cutting groove 11 </ b> B, and performs cutting. The foreign matter and dust resulting from this will be removed by suction. The cleaning using the cleaning member 63 does not need to be performed every time the sheet S is adhered to the wafer W, and can be set to be performed at a certain interval when the sheets S are adhered to a plurality of wafers. .

  In a state where the sheet S is attached to the wafer W and the unnecessary sheet portion S1 on the outer periphery of the wafer W is removed, the robot 14 moves to the transfer member 64 accommodated in the stock apparatus 60. (See FIG. 5), the transfer member 64 allows the wafer W to be transferred from the table 11 to a wafer stocker (not shown) or to a subsequent process, and a new wafer can be transferred from the wafer stocker (not shown). Each sheet can be sucked and held and conveyed onto the table 11.

Therefore, according to such an embodiment, foreign matter or dust in the apparatus that may be generated when the sheet S is cut can be cleaned using the robot 14 that operates the cutter blade 43 in a predetermined manner. When sticking the sheet S, the inconvenience of being mixed between them can be solved.
In addition, since the robot 14 can selectively attach the removal member 62 for the unnecessary sheet portion S1 and the conveyance member 64 for the wafer W, the take-up device for removing the unnecessary sheet S1 and the sheet already attached. It is also possible to eliminate the need for a transfer device for transferring the wafer W from the table 11 to another location, or transferring the wafer W to be newly attached to the table 11 to the table 11.

As described above, the best configuration, method and the like for carrying out the present invention have been disclosed in the above description, but the present invention is not limited to this.
In other words, the present invention has been illustrated and described mainly with respect to specific embodiments, but without departing from the scope of the technical idea and object of the present invention, the shape, position, or With respect to the arrangement and the like, those skilled in the art can make various changes as necessary.

For example, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the robot 14 carries out the cleaning by changing the cutter blade 43 from the cutter blade 43 to the cleaning member 63 is illustrated, but the case where the robot 14 is used as a dedicated device for cleaning by the cleaning member 63 is also included.
Moreover, although the sheet sticking apparatus 10 in the said embodiment illustrated and demonstrated the type cut | disconnected in a sheet form after sticking the sheet | seat S which continues in strip | belt shape on the wafer W, this invention is not limited to this, A sheet-like sheet having a size protruding from the wafer W may be attached to the wafer W and cut into a closed loop according to the shape of the wafer W. In this case, the width direction cutting groove 11A on the upper surface of the table 11 may be unnecessary.

  Further, the plate-like member in the present invention is not limited to the semiconductor wafer W, and other plate-like members such as glass, a steel plate, or a resin plate can also be targeted. It may be a compound wafer.

  Further, the removing member 62 and the cleaning member 63 may be shared without being provided separately.

The schematic front view which shows embodiment of the sheet sticking apparatus which concerns on this invention. The schematic perspective view which shows the state with which the cutter blade was mounted | worn by the free end side of the robot. The schematic perspective view similar to FIG. 2 which shows the state with which the member for removal was mounted | worn. The schematic perspective view similar to FIG. 2 which shows the state with which the member for cleaning was mounted | worn. The schematic perspective view similar to FIG. 2 which shows the state with which the member for conveyance was mounted | worn. (A)-(C) are operation | movement explanatory drawings which affix a sheet | seat on a wafer. (A)-(C) are operation | movement explanatory drawings which cut | disconnect a sheet | seat according to the shape of a wafer, after making a strip | belt-shaped sheet into a sheet. Operation | movement explanatory drawing which removes the unnecessary sheet | seat part outside a wafer using the member for removal. Operation | movement explanatory drawing which shows the state which cleans the upper surface of a table with the member for cleaning.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Sheet sticking apparatus 11 Table 12 Sticking unit 14 Robot 43 Cutter blade 62 Removal member 63 Cleaning member 64 Transfer member W Semiconductor wafer (plate-like member)
S sheet S1 Unnecessary sheet part

Claims (8)

A table for supporting the plate-like member; a sticking unit for sticking a sheet of a size protruding from the plate-like member to the plate-like member; and an articulated robot that is attached to the sticking unit and numerically controlled Including
The robot is provided with a cleaning member for removing foreign matter or dust around the table and its periphery on the free end side thereof. The robot includes a cleaning blade and a cutter blade that cuts the sheet in accordance with the shape of the plate-like member so that the robot can be selectively mounted on a free end side of the robot. The sheet sticking apparatus according to 1. The sheet sticking device according to claim 1, wherein the robot is provided so that a conveying member for conveying the plate-like member can be selectively attached. 4. The robot according to claim 1, 2, or 3, wherein the robot is provided with a removal member that removes an outer sheet portion generated by cutting with the cutter blade as an unnecessary sheet portion. Sheet sticking device. After sticking a sheet of a size protruding from the plate member to the plate member,
After cutting the sheet according to the shape of the plate-like member with a cutter blade and removing the sheet portion outside the plate-like member as an unnecessary sheet portion, a cleaning member is attached to the free end side of the numerically controlled robot And removing the foreign matter or dust around the table and the periphery thereof. After sticking a sheet of a size protruding from the plate member to the plate member,
After cutting the sheet according to the shape of the plate-like member with a cutter blade provided on the free end side of the numerically controlled robot, and removing the sheet portion outside the plate-like member as an unnecessary sheet portion, the robot Is replaced with a cleaning member from the cutter blade to remove foreign matter or dust around the table and its surroundings. The sheet sticking method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the removal of the unnecessary sheet portion is performed by the robot moving from a cleaning member or a cutter blade to a removing member. The sheet sticking method according to claim 5, 6 or 7, wherein the plate-like member is conveyed while the robot is changed from a cutter blade, a removing member or a cleaning member to a conveying member.

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