US Patent Issued to DISCO on June 3 for "Processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,638, issued on June 3, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus" was invented by Yoshinori Kakinuma (Tokyo), Yoshinobu Saito (Tokyo), Yukiyasu Masuda (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Toshio Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Masanobu Takenaka (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Hongo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing apparatus includes a wafer carrying-out unit, a wafer table that supports a wafer carried out, a frame carrying-out unit, a frame table that supports an annular frame carried out, a tape sticking unit that sticks a tape to the annular frame, a tape-attached frame conveying unit, a tape pressure bonding unit that e...