Patent ID: 8042590

Claim:
A protection mechanism for dry film laminator comprising: a lower member adapted to be connected to a dry film laminator for holding a wafer, the wafer adapting to has a dry film laminated thereon; an upper member adapted to be movably connected to the dry film laminator and located above the lower member, the upper member moving downwardly/upwardly relative to the lower member, the upper member having a plurality of through holes defined therein and extending from a top to a bottom thereof; an air supply device adapted to be movably connected to the dry film laminator and communicating with the through holes for feeding air into the through holes; a film guide device adapted to be connected to the dry film laminator, the film guide device including a supply spool and a take-up spool parallelly disposed thereon; and a continuous release film movably connected to the film guide device, the unused continuous release film wound on the supply spool and routed from the supply spool to flatly pass between the upper member and the lower member, sequentially the used continuous release film collected by the take-up spool; wherein when the upper member moves downwardly relative to the lower member, the air supply device feeds air into the through holes to provide air pressure on the continuous release film under the through holes, the continuous release film under the through holes pressed downwardly against the wafer placed on the lower member for enhancing a lamination of the dry film to the wafer and adhering a material extruded from the dry film; when the air supply device stops feeding air, the continuous release film simultaneously moves from the wafer and removes the extruded material from the wafer.