Adjustment tool for wire bonders
Hesse & Knipps‘ E-Box is a patent-registered optical and electronical system for reproducible adjustments of bondhead elements. It includes a camera for optical displaying wedge, cutter and wire guide as well as a graphical support for adjustment- and positioning control. E-Box allows significant time reduction for setting up the machine.

Software enhanced optical adjustment system for wedge, cutter and wire guide / wire clamp

E-Box for Bonder

Advantages during Production

• Better reproducibility of the adjustment depending attributes (e.g. loop forming) after change of wearing parts
• Longer life time of wearing parts

 Advantages for Bond Process

• System for reproducible set-up of wedge, cutter and wire guide / wire clamp
• Set-up without microscope
• Free programmable, specified positions for bondhead elements
  • shown as limitation line
  • different views selectable (different sides, bottom, front etc.)
• Minimizes time expenditure for set-up work, set-up control and readjustment
• Process secured adjustment of wire feed elements (wedge, wire clamp, wire guide, cutter etc.)
• Graphical supported, visual control of:
  • wedge and wire guide position
  • distance between wedge and wire clamp
  • gap of wire clamp
  • wire pass
  • cutter respectively cutting position