Patent Document:

in order to explain the present invention in detail , reference will be particularly made to fig1 . fig1 shows a semiconductor device having a light transparent window in one embodiment of the present invention . in fig1 the same reference numerals designate the same elements as those in the prior art device . the reference numeral 12 designates glass window material , and the numeral 11 designates an adhesion portion which adheres the glass window material 12 to the molding resin 9 . the process for the production method of the semiconductor device will be described with reference to fig2 . at first , the wall 3 is produced of silicon resin or silicon rubber by a screen printing process on a wafer ( refer to fig2 ( a )). next , the chip 1 is scribed , cut out , and die bonded onto the lead frame , and thereafter wire bonding is conducted ( refer to fig2 ( b ) to ( d )). next , the chip 1 is inserted into the molding metal molds 21 and 22 as shown in fig2 ( e ), and molding resin 9 is injected into the space 24 for forming the outer configuration of a package from the molding material injection aperture 23 . in this molding resin 9 injection process , the wall 3 which produced by the above - described process is tightly adheres to the upper metal mold 21 , and the molding resin 9 is not injected into the hollow section 25 . after this molding resin 9 is injected , the chip 1 is taken out from the metal molds 21 and 22 ( refer to fig2 ( f )). the glass window material 12 adheres to the molding resin 9 by the adhesive material such as an epoxy system adhesive 11 ( refer to fig2 ( g )), and the legs are bent , thereby completing the semiconductor device as shown in fig1 . in the semiconductor device produced as described above , it is possible to make a sufficient distance between the glass surface to which the light is incident 12 and the light detector of the chip 1 . therefore , even when flaws or dust of about several 10 μm in size adheres to the lower surface of the glass surface 12 ( at the side of the chip surface ), a shade does not appear on the chip surface and the flaws and dust become inconspicuous . accordingly , by adopting such a structure in a vtr camera image sensor , black point flaws which have arisen in the prior art device arise less frequently , and this greatly contributes to an enhancement in the yield . as an example , a shade of about 10 % brightness is difficult to be recognized by the naked eye of a human being if it only occupies a narrow space on an imaged screen . accordingly , it is sufficient to design a metal mold 21 having a distance between the glass surface 12 and the light detector of the chip 1 so that the shade only affects an influence of lower than 10 % brightness against the size of flaws or dust which are suppressed at the glass surface 12 . the distance between the chip 1 and the glass surface 12 may be larger than 100 to 500 μm as a criterion when dust of 10 to 20 μm in size adheres . actually , it is desirable to make the distance of about 1 mm . furthermore , the glass window material for the glass plate 12 is optically polished for use and there is no necessity of using a special glass plate . in the above - illustrated embodiment , the metal mold for producing the hollow section 21 has a rectangular portion for producing a space between the chip 1 and the window material 12 . it is possible , however , to make it easy to take out the chip from the metal mold after producing the molding resin by using a metal mold 21 which has a tapered configuration at this space producing portion 26 as shown in fig5 . furthermore , the working environment is assumed to be subjected to a temperature cycle from high temperature to low temperature or from low temperature to high temperature when using a molding resin package . therefore , a stress 28 applied to the inside may arise in the glass window material 12 as shown in fig5 ., and the package itself may warp . when a step 27 is provided on the metal mold 21 and a portion or the entire glass window 12 adheres to the molding resin 9 which is sunk therein as a solution for releasing this stress 28 , the stress 28 will be absorbed by the glass window 12 and the warping of the package is prevented ( refer to fig5 ( d )). as is evident from the foregoing description , according to the present invention , a portion corresponding to a space between a chip and a light transparent window is created when producing the molding resin by making a metal mold adhere to a wall . thereby , a light transparent window is arranged sufficiently apart from a semiconductor chip which includes a light electricity conversion section . thus , defects caused by dust or flaws at the glass surface are made difficult to be recognized , and thus the yield of the device is enhanced . furthermore , the light transparent window material may be made of a common optically polished glass plate , thereby making the device at a low cost . the invention being thus described , it will be obvious that the same may be varied in many ways . such variations are not to be regarded as a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention , and all such modifications as would be obvious to one skilled in the art are intended to be included within the scope of the following claims .

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