Patent ID: 8166637

Claim:
An apparatus for mounting a semiconductor chip as a flip chip on a substrate, comprising: means for supplying the semiconductor chip to a predetermined position; a pick-and-place system with a bonding head having a chip gripper; a flipping apparatus with a gripper, the flipping apparatus held rotatably about a predetermined axis and configured to be used in a first rotational position to receive the semiconductor chip at the predetermined position which is provided by the means for supplying and in a second rotational position to transfer the semiconductor chip as a flip chip to the chip gripper of the bonding head; a camera for taking a picture; and an optical switch configured for setting in an alternating manner a first or second field of view for the camera, with the semiconductor chip provided by the means for supplying located in the first field of view and with the semiconductor chip held by the chip gripper of the bonding head being located in the second field of view; wherein the flipping apparatus and the optical switch are operatively connected with each other in such a way that in the case of a change of the flipping apparatus from the first rotational position to the second rotational position the field of view of the camera changes from the first field of view to the second field of view.