Patent ID: 6813817
Filing Date: 2004-11-09
Classification: G01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of retrofitting a probe station having an original head plate, so that said probe station may be easily configured to mate with a probe card dish and any tester out of a set of testers, said method comprising the steps of:(a) removing said original head plate from said probe station; (b) providing a replacement head plate having a head plate-tooling plate attachment region, including head plate-tooling plate attachment region fastening and alignment items; (c) attaching said replacement headplate to said probe station; and (d) providing a set of tooling plates, each having fastening and alignment items adapted to easily mate to said head plate-tooling plate attachment region fastening and alignment items and defining an aperture designed to engage a probe card dish and including docking equipment adapted to facilitate docking to a tester out of said set of testers, said set of tooling plates including, for each particular tester out of said set of testers, a tooling plate adapted to facilitate attachment to said particular tester.