Patent ID: 8678062

Claim:
Adhesive tape joining apparatus that joins an adhesive tape to a semiconductor wafer, comprising: a holding table that holds the semiconductor wafer; a tape supply mechanism that supplies the strip adhesive tape wound about an master roll to the semiconductor wafer; a tape joining mechanism that joins the adhesive tape to the semiconductor wafer; a tape cutting mechanism that cuts the adhesive tape along a contour of the semiconductor wafer; a tape collecting section having a winding shaft that is aligned with a center of the master roll set in the tape supply mechanism in a vertical direction and that winds up and collects a residual cut tape into a roll shape; and a connection mechanism that guides to a tape set position an adhesive tape transport carriage that loads the master roll to the tape supply mechanism and unloads the roll of the residual cut tape from the tape collecting section, and positions the adhesive tape transport carriage for connection thereof, the adhesive tape transport carriage comprising: a caster on a bottom face of a carriage frame; a lifting movable table that lifts along an axis that is erected on the carriage frame; and a holding table that mounts and holds the roll and moves horizontally with respect to the carriage frame.