Patent ID: 7165711

Claim:
An apparatus for lifting substrates in a semiconductor packaging process, the apparatus comprising: a substrate tray with a plurality of depressions and a hole in each depression for coupling to a plate, the substrate tray to hold a substrate in each depression; said plate with a plurality of protrusions coupled to said substrate tray, each of said protrusions extending through a different said hole and maintaining level or leveling the substrate in the corresponding depression while lifting said substrate concurrently with the other of the plurality of substrates in the other of said depressions; a lifting device with a plurality of vacuum pads coupled to the substrate tray, the lifting device to attach to the substrates and lift the substrates out of the substrate tray; a first actuator coupled to the plate, the first actuator to raise and lower the plate; a second actuator to lower and raise the lifting device; and vacuum application apparatus at said vacuum pads to attach the substrates to the vacuum pad.