Patent ID: 7549214

Claim:
A method for bonding slider row bars for a photolithography process, the method comprising: (1) forming a holding device having a sticky surface; (2) providing a plurality of slider row bars each having a first surface for forming an air bearing surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and securing the slider row bars on the holding device with their first surfaces facing the sticky surface so that the first surfaces of the slider row bars are aligned each other; (3) bonding the slider row bars together by an encapsulating glue; (4) providing a carrier and bonding the carrier to the second surfaces of the slider row bars; and (5) removing the holding device, wherein step (1) comprises: (a) providing a frame having a hole therein; (b) providing a film having a sticky layer serving as the sticky surface and a non-sticky layer laminated together, and covering the film on the frame with the sticky layer facing to the frame; (c) providing a vacuum transfer fixture having a base plate and a protrusion stage which is positioned on the base plate and has a plurality of vacuum holes defined therein; and (d) assembling the vacuum transfer fixture to the frame with the protrusion stage received in the hole of the frame and contacting with the non-sticky layer of the film to form the holding device.