Patent ID: 7950434

Claim:
An adhering apparatus for adhering a piece of adhesive tape adhered to a release tape and cut into a predetermined length to an upper surface of a substrate, the apparatus comprising: a base member driven in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; a pressurizing tool including a polyhedron body with a plurality of peripheral pressurizing surfaces, the pressurizing tool rotatably mounted on the base member; a supply member supplying the adhesive tape adhered to the release tape along the peripheral pressurizing surfaces; a cutter disposed to face one of the peripheral pressurizing surfaces, the cutter cutting only the adhesive tape into pieces having a predetermined length; a backup tool disposed to face one of the peripheral pressurizing surfaces located downstream from the peripheral pressurizing surface facing the cutter in a direction of rotation of the pressurizing tool, the backup tool supporting a lower surface of the substrate; wherein the base member is driven downward in the vertical direction toward the substrate during a first period during which the peripheral pressurizing surface facing the backup tool adheres the adhesive tape piece to the upper surface of the substrate; and the base member is driven upward in the vertical direction away from the substrate during a second period, within the second period, the base member is also driven a predefined length in the horizontal direction and the pressurizing tool is rotatably driven such that the peripheral pressurizing surface upstream from the peripheral pressurizing surface facing the backup tool during the first period is rotated to face the backup tool; and wherein the base member includes a take-up reel which reels up the release tape, which has been removed from the adhesive tape following adhesion of the adhesive tape piece to the substrate.