摘要:
A detector is provided to optically monitor the outer periphery of a wafer rotated by rotation of a rotary stage, so as to detect how much the center of the wafer placed on the rotary inspection stage is offset from the rotational center of the rotary stage as well as an angular position, on the stage, of a V-shaped notch formed in the wafer. From the detected eccentricity of the wafer, it is determined whether a precise positioning operation, using at least three positioning pins, to locate the center of the wafer at the rotational center of the rotary stage should be performed or not. When the detected eccentricity is so great as to necessitate the precise positioning operation, one of the positioning pins is caused to fit into the V-shaped notch of the wafer on the basis of the detected angular position of the notch and then the precise positioning of the wafer is performed using the other two positioning pins. In this manner, the wafer can be properly positioned so that the center of the wafer lies exactly at the rotational center of the rotary stage, using the at least three positioning pins.
摘要:
A magnetic disk certifier according to the present invention is featured by comprising a write circuit for writing a test data having a period which is 1/n of a bit period of the test data, error of which is to be detected, in a magnetic disk, where n is an integer equal to or larger than 2, a read-out circuit for reading out the test data written in the magnetic disk, a comparator circuit for producing a detection signal by comparing a read-out signal read out from the read-out circuit with a predetermined signal or a predetermined reference level and an error detector circuit for detecting an error by receiving the detection signal from the comparator circuit with a period which is n times the bit period of the test data written in the magnetic disk, a bit data of an error detected by the error detector circuit being used as an error signal by converting each bit of the bit data into n bits.
摘要:
The improved DNA base sequencer comprising an electrophoresis plate having a gel electrolyte layer held between two glass plates, one of which is partially cut away on the top edge in the direction of width, an assay compartment for accommodating said electrophoresis plate in a vertically erect position, a lower reservoir of a buffer solution in which the lower part of the gel electrolyte layer in the electrophoresis plate is to be immersed, an upper reservoir of a buffer solution in which the upper part of said electrolyte layer is to be immersed, photoexciting laser light applying means by which laser light is emitted from a lateral side of the electrophoresis plate in such a way that it crosses the lanes in said plate at right angles, and fluorescence detecting means by which the fluorescence emitted from a DNA fragment illuminated with the laser light is picked up and converted to an electric signal, and the apparatus is characterized in that a sharkstoothcomb made of a water-swellable material is inserted from the top edge of said electrophoresis plate into the space between the two glass plates, either the top or bottom edge of said sharkstoothcomb being provided with a plurality of teeth which are each tapered from the root toward the tip. Using this apparatus, samples can be easily and yet positively injected at specified lane positions on the gel electrolyte layer.
摘要:
A magnetic disk tester according to the present invention comprises a first head moving mechanism for fixedly mounting a first certification testing head and a burnishing head perpendicularly of a moving direction thereof and a second head moving mechanism for fixedly mounting a second certification testing head and a glide testing head perpendicularly of a moving direction thereof. The burnishing head and the glide testing head are switched by the first certification testing head and the second certification testing head, respectively, by moving a spindle in an orthogonal direction to the head moving direction.
摘要:
To speed up the pattern generator which is a bottleneck for speedup of an LSI tester, a continuous address control information for generating addresses for continuous pattern memory read is generated at a speed 1/N (N is an optional number larger than 1) times the operation speed of the continuous address generator, and the address controller is divided into a 1st and a 2nd address controller. The two controllers are connected via a buffer memory to ensure the normal operation when the correspondence between address control instructions and patterns to be continuously read is not 1:N. Continuous address information generated by the 1st address controller is stored in the buffer memory. The second address controller, which actually generates continuous addresses, receives the continuous address information from the buffer memory, outputs the addresses to the pattern memory at a speed N times of the operation speed of the 1st address controller, and receives the next continuous address information from the buffer memory once again when the continuous address generation is finished to repeat the operation mentioned above.
摘要:
An IC magazine supply system including a plurality of rows of side by side magazine stackers each holding a vertical stack of IC magazines each holding an array of IC packages therein, guide bars located beneath the magazine stackers for receiving the IC magazines as they move downwardly, a moving section receiving the IC magazines when it moves downwardly, moving transversely while holding the IC magazines, discharging the IC magazine located at a leading end while transferring the rest of the IC magazines to the guide bars and thereafter moving transversely in an opposite direction, and a plurality of sensors mounted on the bottom of each one of the plurality of rows of magazine stackers for sensing the condition of movement of the IC magazines. The guide bars and the moving section are each formed with a plurality of pairs of recesses for holding the IC magazines, and the moving section moves repeatedly in a rectangular movement to enable the IC magazines to be successively supplied from the magazine stackers.
摘要:
Conventionally, a particle/defect inspection apparatus outputs a total number of detected particles/defects as the result of detection. For taking countermeasures to failures in manufacturing processes, the particles/defects detected by the inspection apparatus are analyzed. Since the inspection apparatus outputs a large number of detected particles/defects, an immense time is required for analyzing the detected particles/defects, resulting in a delay in taking countermeasures to a failure in the manufacturing processes. In the present invention, an apparatus for optically inspecting particles or defects relates a particle or defect size to a cause of failure in an inspection result. A data processing circuit points out a cause of failure from the statistics on the inspection result, and displays information on the inspection result. A failure analysis is conducted by setting a threshold for identifying a failure in each of regions on a semiconductor device or the like to statistically evaluate detected particles.
摘要:
A system for monitoring foreign matter includes a manufacturing line having plural process processing apparatuses, a production management system which manages the processing of workpieces in the manufacturing line, plural optical heads which monitor foreign matter in relation to at least one of the workpieces, and which provide an output signal indicative thereof, and at least one image signal processing unit provided in a lesser number than a number of the plural optical heads for processing the output signal therefrom.
摘要:
Conventionally, a particle/defect inspection apparatus outputs a total number of detected particles/defects as the result of detection. For taking countermeasures to failures in manufacturing processes, the particles/defects detected by the inspection apparatus are analyzed. Since the inspection apparatus outputs a large number of detected particles/defects, an immense time is required for analyzing the detected particles/defects, resulting in a delay in taking countermeasures to a failure in the manufacturing processes. In the present invention, an apparatus for optically inspecting particles or defects relates a particle or defect size to a cause of failure in an inspection result. A data processing circuit points out a cause of failure from the statistics on the inspection result, and displays information on the inspection result. A failure analysis is conducted by setting a threshold for identifying a failure in each of regions on a semiconductor device or the like to statistically evaluate detected particles.
摘要:
A piezo actuator is provided between a suspension spring and a head carriage. When a predetermined track of a magnetic disk is accessed by positioning a magnetic head in the predetermined track, the piezo actuator maintains the magnetic head in an ON track state by dynamically moving a light weight head cartridge according to a servo information or dynamically moving a head assembly in the head cartridge according the servo information.