Apparatus for inspecting land-attached circuit board
US6278797A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 25, 1998 |
| Grant date | Aug 21, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 25, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R31/311
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An inspection beam such as laser beam is scanned two-dimensionally on an inspection surface of a circuit board with a plurality of lands while allowing its reflected beam from the inspection surface to be received by a beam receiving section. The beam receiving section is formed by a device, such as a semiconductor position sensitive detector, which is capable of producing an output which varies according to a reflected beam brightness and reflected beam receiving position (which reflects the height level of the reflection surface). On the basis of the output of the beam receiving section, reflected beam brightness information and height level information at respective positions on the inspection surface are prepared. From the reflected beam brightness information at the respective positions, an existing region of each of the lands on the inspection surface can be fixed. From the height level information at the respective positions within the thus fixed land existing region, the land height level can be fixed.
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