Patent ID: 8074867

Claim:
A method of mounting a conductive ball to a mounting target, the method comprising: applying an adhesive to an electrode on the mounting target, the mounting target mounted to a stage; controlling at least one of the stage and an array mask to align the electrode and adhesive with a through hole of the array mask; dropping the conductive ball into the through hole; and moving at least one of the stage and the array mask relative to each other in a horizontal direction after the conductive ball was dropped to cause the conductive ball to come into abutment against an inner wall of the through hole of the array mask to adjust a position of the conductive ball in the through hole, wherein the horizontal direction is a direction parallel to a plane of a surface of the mounting target on which the adhesive is applied, and wherein the moving at least one of the array mask and the stage further comprises a sequential movement in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction.