US Patent Issued to Yamaha Robotics Holdings on Oct. 7 for "Ultrasound vibrating-type defect detection apparatus and wire defect detection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,053, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Yamaha Robotics Holdings Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound vibrating-type defect detection apparatus and wire defect detection system" was invented by Michael Kirkby (Tokyo), Hiroshi Munakata (Tokyo) and Takuya Adachi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound vibrating-type defect detection apparatus (100) for detecting a defect in a semiconductor apparatus (10) is provided with: an ultrasound vibrator (42); a high-frequency power supply (40); a camera (45); and a controller (50) for adjusting the frequency of high-frequency power supplied from the high-frequency power supply (40) to the ul...