Patent ID: 7320424

Claim:
A wire bonding machine for bonding a wire to a semiconductor device, the wire bonding machine comprising: a wire bonding head having a bonding tool mounted to it, the bonding tool adapted to attach a wire end to a semiconductor device; a bonding head conveyance system adapted to (1) move the bonding tool in a vertical direction and (2) move the bonding tool linearly along a first horizontal axis during a wire bonding operation wherein the wire bonding operation is the process of attaching a conductive wire between bonding locations on the semiconductor device; a work table adapted to support a semiconductor device to be wire bonded, and adapted to position the semiconductor device into a bonding position prior to the wire bonding operation; and a work table conveyance system adapted to translate the semiconductor device along a second horizontal axis during the wire bonding operation, wherein the second horizontal axis is different from the first horizontal axis, and wherein the translation of the semiconductor device during the wire bonding operation is distinct from the positioning of the semiconductor device into the bonding position.