Modular Chip Tray Kit with Auxiliary Insertion Members

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional IC chip testing apparatuses often fail to ensure proper electrical connection of IC chips, leading to incorrect testing and chips easily detaching during transfer, causing inconvenience and inefficiency.

Innovation Solution

A chip tray kit with detachable chip fixing members and auxiliary insertion members that include protrusions and insertion holes, ensuring stable chip connection to the testing machine and preventing detachment during transfer, along with a temperature adjusting device for precise testing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If conventional trays are used to carry IC chips, then the tray structure is simple, but the IC chips easily detach from the tray during transfer

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechip stability in trayVSAvoidtray structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The chip tray is divided into multiple modular chip fixing members, each with individual chip accommodating slots and fixing structures. This segmentation allows each module to independently secure chips while maintaining overall tray stability, preventing detachment during transfer without requiring a completely complex integrated structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The chip fixing members are pre-assembled with chip accommodating slots and fixing structures before chip mounting. This preliminary preparation ensures that chips are securely held from the moment they are placed, preventing detachment during subsequent transfer operations without adding complexity to the transfer process itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If IC chips are mounted onto conventional testing apparatus without verification, then the mounting process is fast, but improper electrical connection is not detected until testing is complete

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemounting speedVSAvoidelectrical connection reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The chip fixing members include built-in fixing structures and limiting structures that pre-verify proper chip mounting and electrical connection before the testing process begins. This preliminary verification ensures reliable electrical connection without requiring separate verification steps that would slow down production.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The chip fixing members are designed to automatically verify and confirm proper chip mounting through their fixing structures and limiting structures. The system self-checks the electrical connection reliability without requiring external verification equipment, maintaining high productivity while ensuring reliable connections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Stability of the object's composition

If chip fixing structures are made more complex to prevent detachment, then chip stability improves, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechip mounting stabilityVSAvoidfixing structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The fixing structure is segmented into multiple simple components within each chip fixing member: chip accommodating slots for positioning, fixing thru-holes for securing, and limiting structures for preventing movement. This segmentation achieves high chip mounting stability through multiple simple functional elements rather than one complex mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each chip fixing member has localized fixing structures and limiting structures specifically designed for the chip mounting area. This local quality approach provides high stability exactly where needed (at the chip mounting interface) without adding complexity to the entire device structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11366159B2Chip tray kit and chip testing apparatus
Publication Date: 2022.06.21 ONE TEST SYST
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AI summary

A chip tray kit and a chip testing apparatus are provided. The chip testing apparatus includes the chip tray kit. The chip tray kit includes a tray, a plurality of chip fixing members, and a plurality of auxiliary insertion members. The tray includes a plurality of tray thru-holes, the chip fixing members are detachably fixed to the tray, and the chip fixing members are correspondingly arranged in the tray thru-holes. Each of the auxiliary insertion members is detachably fixed to a side of the chip fixing member, a portion of each of the auxiliary insertion members is arranged in a fixing thru-hole of the chip fixing member, and each of the auxiliary insertion members can limit a movement range of a chip in a chip accommodating slot of the chip fixing member.