Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Maintenance carriage for wafer inspection apparatus and maintenance method for wafer inspection apparatus
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Application No.: US14525431Application Date: 2014-10-28
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Publication No.: US09671459B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Junichi Hagihara , Shigekazu Komatsu , Kunihiro Furuya , Tadayoshi Hosaka , Naoki Muramatsu
- Applicant: Tokyo Electron Limited , Nippo Precision Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Nirasaki-Shi, Yamanashi
- Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED,NIPPO PRECISION CO., LTD
- Current Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED,NIPPO PRECISION CO., LTD
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Nirasaki-Shi, Yamanashi
- Agency: Pearne & Gordon LLP
- Priority: JP2013-224460 20131029
- Main IPC: G01R31/00
- IPC: G01R31/00 ; G01R31/28 ; G01R1/04 ; H01L21/677 ; H01L21/687

Abstract:
A maintenance carriage of a wafer inspection apparatus can easily unload a test head. A wafer inspection apparatus 10 includes a cell tower 12 in which cells 11 are arranged at four levels, and each of the cells 11 accommodates a test head 15. At an outside of the cell tower 12, a maintenance carriage 27 is arranged. The maintenance carriage 27 includes a carriage base 29 configured to be moved through rollers 28; a test head case 31 configured to accommodate the test head 15; a lift device 30 provided uprightly from the carriage base 29 and configured to move up and down the test head case 31; and a horizontal position adjusting stage 35 provided between a lifter 34 of the lift device 30 and the test head case 31 and configured to move the test head case 31 horizontally with respect to the lifter 34.
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