Patent ID: 7161346
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method of seating an electronic component in a test seat of an electronic component handler such that the electronic component is seated and held in an orientation that exposes a side margin of the electronic component to parametric testing, comprising: providing an electronic component including a body having a pair of first opposite side surfaces, a pair of second opposite side surfaces, and a pair of end surfaces, each of the pair of first opposite side surfaces having opposite side margins shared in common with side margins of different ones of the second opposite side surfaces, the pair of first opposite side surfaces being spaced apart by a first distance defined by first opposite side margins of the pair of end surfaces and the pair of second opposite side surfaces being spaced apart by a second distance defined by second opposite side margins of the first pair of end surfaces, the electronic component further including a first wraparound electrode wrapping around the opposite side margins of one of the pair of the first opposite side surfaces to form first electrical contact regions on the second side surfaces, and including a second wraparound electrode wrapping around the opposite side margins of the other one of the pair of first opposite side surfaces to form second electrical contact regions on the second side surfaces; providing a test seat including a base surface from which extends a side member having first and second opposed seat side surfaces, the first and second seat side surfaces separated by generally increasing distances from a narrower notch end to a wider notch end to form a notch, and the first and second seat side surfaces spaced apart to form an opening at the narrower notch end; and seating the electronic component in the test seat such that one of the electronic component end surfaces contacts the base surface and one of each of the first and second electronic component side surfaces rests against different ones of the first and second seat side surfaces so that one of the side margins covered by one of the first and second wraparound electrodes projects outwardly through the opening and one of the side margins covered by the other one of the first and second wraparound electrodes not in proximity to the first and second seat side surfaces is exposed by the wider notch end.