Patent ID: 7173432

Claim:
A method for automatically testing a parameter of an electronic component to determine whether the component has an acceptable parameter value, employing an automatic electronic component testing machine having at least first and second measurement positions where the parameter of the electronic component can be measured, wherein the testing process itself may falsely cause the parameter value to appear to be unacceptable when the parameter value is actually acceptable, the method comprising: placing the component in the first measurement position; measuring the parameter of the component in the first measurement position, thereby generating a first measured parameter value; placing the component in the second measurement position; measuring the parameter of the component in the second measurement position, thereby generating a second measured parameter value; and rejecting the component, and consequently moving the component to a predetermined area, only if all measured parameter values are unacceptable, whereby the overall probability of the method falsely rejecting the component is less than if only a single measuring step were performed.