KR20090099460A - Scribing device and scribing method - Google Patents

Abstract

A scribing device and a scribing method thereof are provided to scribe a low-temperature sintered ceramic substrate along a desired line. A scribing method with a scribing device comprises the following steps. Alignment marks are adhered to each scribe line on a substrate(107) made of a brittle material. A table(106) is moved along y-axis and rotated freely by a motor(105). A scribing head(112) is moved along x-axis freely. When scribing, the substrate is fixed on the table and a pair of alignment marks are detected every scribing. The table is moved such that a line connecting the alignment marks coincides with a scribe line and then the scribing is performed.

Description

SCRIBING DEVICE AND SCRIBING METHOD}

The present invention relates in particular to a scribing apparatus and scribing method used for cutting brittle material substrates such as low temperature calcined ceramic substrates.

Low-temperature calcined ceramics (hereinafter referred to as LTCC) is a substrate obtained by wiring a conductor to a sheet mixed with an aggregate of alumina and a glass material to form a multilayer film, and baking the multilayer film at a low temperature of about 800 ° C. In the LTCC substrate, a plurality of functional regions are simultaneously formed in a lattice shape on one mother substrate, and these functional regions are divided and used for each functional region. Conventionally, as shown in patent document 1, the scribe was used using the scriber for ceramics, and the LTCC board | substrate was divided | segmented. In addition, the LTCC substrate was cut by mechanical cutting with a cutting tool.

[Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent No. 3116743

In the conventional method of dividing by mechanical cutting, not only the cutting takes time but also the cutting is difficult. In addition, there was a drawback that dust was generated during cutting, or it was necessary to form a constant space for cutting between each small substrate on the mother substrate.

On the other hand, when dividing a mother substrate or the like having a functional area made of glass in a lattice shape into a plurality of small substrates for a flat panel display or the like, first, a scribe device is scribed in a lattice shape. For this reason, as shown in FIG. 1, a pair of marks are selected from the alignment mark affixed around the mother substrate, and the line which connects these marks is scribed. Next, from this line, a predetermined pitch in consideration of the size of the functional area is set to form another parallel scribe line. The line shown by the dashed-dotted line in a figure shows the line to be scribed. In the glass substrate, since the formation of the alignment mark is not irreversibly large, and the accuracy of the alignment mark is high, even if the mother substrate is scribed by moving the mother substrate in a predetermined pitch from the surrounding alignment marks in this manner, the mother substrate is accurately You can scribe to divide.

However, the LTCC substrate has a functional region and an alignment mark formed before firing, but shrinks during firing, so that the dimensional accuracy is low as shown in FIG. Therefore, even if an alignment mark is affixed around the LTCC board | substrate previously, even if a mother substrate is moved in parallel with a desired pitch on the basis of this alignment mark, it cannot scribe correctly between functional areas. Therefore, there is a problem in that it is difficult to manufacture a product substrate by dividing the mother substrate accurately for each functional region. In particular, when the substrate and the product substrate are small (e.g., when dividing the substrate having a width of 200 mm or less (especially 100 mm or less), and obtaining a product having a width of 10 mm or less (especially 5 mm or less) by dividing), the functional area It becomes difficult to manufacture a product substrate by dividing correctly every time.

The present invention solves these problems of the prior art, using a scribing apparatus used for scribing brittle material substrates, such as glass substrates, and after forming functional regions such as low-temperature calcined ceramics and alignment marks, before scribing, etc. The object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily scribe and easily cut between functional areas in response to deformation even in a brittle material substrate that is supposed to be deformed by the processing of.

In order to solve this problem, the scribing apparatus of the present invention is a scribing apparatus for scribing a functional region formed on a brittle material substrate for each functional region to form a product substrate, wherein the brittle material substrate is a pair for each scribing line. An alignment mark of is set, the scribing apparatus includes a table on which the brittle material substrate is installed, a lifting head freely formed so as to face the brittle material substrate on the table, and a scribing head supporting the scribing wheel at the tip thereof. Moving means for relatively moving the scribing head and the brittle material substrate while the scribing wheel is pressed against the surface of the brittle material substrate, and formed at the end of the line to be scribed of the brittle material substrate. Camera to photograph alignment mark and sc The recipe data table, which holds a recipe data table including a live line in advance, and matches the line connecting a pair of alignment marks formed on a brittle material substrate by the moving means based on the recipe data table. It is provided with a controller which moves a head and a brittle material board relatively, and raises and lowers the said scribe head.

The scribe head may be a high penetrating scribing wheel.

In order to solve this problem, the scribing method of the present invention is a scribing method for scribing a functional region formed on a brittle material substrate for each functional region to form a product substrate, wherein the brittle material substrate is a pair for each scribing line. An alignment mark of is set, and each pair of scribe lines detects a pair of alignment marks formed on the brittle material substrate, and relatively moves the table and the scribe head in a horizontal direction to scribe a line passing through the pair of alignment marks. The scribe head is dropped on the brittle material substrate to scribe the brittle material substrate along a line connecting the alignment marks.

In addition, the scribe as used herein refers to engraving a scribe line (cutting line) by rolling the scribing wheel on a brittle material substrate and rolling it, and extending vertical cracks along the scribe line (extension in the plate thickness direction). (extend) cracks).

According to this invention which has such a characteristic, scribe is performed based on the alignment mark for every scribe line. Therefore, it is possible to scribe precisely even to a brittle material substrate such as an LTCC substrate having a low dimensional accuracy of the position of the alignment mark with respect to the position (space between functional regions) where the scribe line should be originally formed, and segmenting based on the scribe line. can do. Therefore, when the board | substrate and a product board | substrate are small (for example, when dividing a board | substrate of 200 mm or less in width (especially 100 mm or less), and obtaining a product of 10 mm or less in width (especially 5 mm or less) by division) Valid.

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3 is a schematic perspective view showing an example of the scribing apparatus of the present embodiment. In this scribe device 100, the movable base 101 is freely supported along the pair of guide rails 102a and 102b in the y-axis direction. The ball screw 103 is screwed into the movable table 101. The ball screw 103 is rotated by the drive of the motor 104 to move the movable base 101 along the guide rails 102a and 102b in the y-axis direction. The motor 105 is formed on the upper surface of the movable table 101. The motor 105 rotates the table 106 in the xy plane to position at a predetermined angle. Here, the brittle material substrate 107 is a low temperature calcined ceramic substrate. This board | substrate 107 is mounted on the table 106, and is supported by the vacuum suction means etc. which are not shown in figure. In the upper part of the scribing apparatus, two CCD cameras 108a and 108b which image the alignment mark of the brittle material substrate 107 are provided. In addition, positioning pins 109a and 109b for positioning the brittle material substrate 107 are provided in two peripheral parts on the table 106.

In the scribing apparatus 100, the bridge 110 is hypothesized by pillars 111a and 111b along the x-axis direction so as to cross the movable table 101 and the table 106 thereon. . The bridge 110 supports the scribe head 112 freely by the linear motor 113. The linear motor 113 drives the scribe head 112 linearly along the x-axis direction. The scribing wheel 115 is attached to the front end of the scribe head 112 via the holder 114. The scribing head 112 forms a scribe line while rolling the scribing wheel 115 with the appropriate load on the surface of the brittle material substrate. As the scribing wheel 115, it is preferable to use the high-penetration scribing wheel shown in Japanese Patent No. 3074153. In this embodiment, the scribing wheel is also used. For example, a highly penetrating scribing wheel can be formed by forming a groove having a predetermined depth at a predetermined pitch at the blade edge (peripheral ridge) of a generally used scribing wheel. Common scribing wheels which are generally used are manufactured by forming, for example, a V-shaped blade tip (circum ridge) along the circumference of a disc-shaped wheel (cylindrical wheel). The convergence angle of the V-shaped blade tip is usually an obtuse angle, for example, 90 to 160 degrees, preferably 95 to 150 degrees, and particularly preferably 100 to 140 degrees. For example, a V-shaped blade is formed by grinding a disk-shaped wheel along its circumference to form an outer periphery. For example, the V-shaped blade formed by grinding has a fine tooth shape derived from the grinding trace. A high-penetration scribing wheel can be manufactured by regularly forming recesses (grooves) larger than the tooth-shaped grooves of the blade edges of ordinary scribing wheels. The depth of the grooves may be, for example, 2 to 100 µm, preferably 3 to 50 µm, and particularly preferably 5 to 20 µm. The width of the grooves may be, for example, 10 to 100 µm, preferably 15 to 100 µm, and particularly preferably 20 to 50 µm. The pitch for forming the groove is, for example, in the case of a scribing wheel having a diameter of 1 to 10 mm (especially 1.5 to 7 mm), 20 to 250 µm, preferably 30 to 180 µm, particularly preferably 40 to 80 µm. can do. Here, pitch means the value which added together the length of one groove | channel in the circumferential direction of a scribing wheel, and the length of one protrusion which remain | survives by formation of a groove | channel. Usually, in the highly penetrating scribing wheel, the length of one groove is longer than the length of one projection in the circumferential direction of the scribing wheel. As the material of the scribing wheel, sintered diamond (PCD), cemented carbide or the like can be used, but sintered diamond (PCD) is preferable in view of the life of the scribing wheel.

Here, the movable table 101, the guide rails 102a and 102b, the table 106, the motors 104 and 105 which drive them, and the linear motor 113 which moves the scribe head 112 are a scribe head and a brittle material. The movement means which moves a board | substrate relatively in the direction parallel to the surface to be scribed (in a horizontal direction, when a board | substrate is arrange | positioned in the horizontal direction) is comprised.

Next, the structure of the controller of the scribe apparatus 100 which concerns on this embodiment is demonstrated using a block diagram. 4 is a block diagram of the controller 120 of the scribe device 100. In this figure, outputs from the two CCD cameras 108a and 108b are given to the control unit 122 via the image processing unit 121 of the controller 120. The input unit 123 inputs recipe data for scribing a brittle material substrate as described later. The Y motor driver 125, the rotating motor driver 126, and the scribe head driver 127 are connected to the controller 122. The Y motor driver 125 drives the motor 104, and the rotating motor driver 126 drives the motor 105. The control part 122 controls the position of the table 106 in the y-axis direction based on recipe data, and controls the table 106 to rotate. In addition, the control unit 122 drives the scribe head in the x-axis direction through the scribe head drive unit 127, and the scribing wheel 115 is moved to the brittle material substrate during the rolling motion of the scribing wheel 115. It is driven to press the surface onto an appropriate load. The control unit 122 is also connected to a monitor 128 and a recipe data holding unit 129. The recipe data holding unit 129 holds recipe data for a scribe described later. The recipe data is input by the input unit 123 while checking the input to the monitor 128.

Next, the scribing method of the scribing apparatus which concerns on this embodiment is demonstrated using a flowchart and a brittle material board | substrate. FIG. 5 shows a square brittle material substrate 107 disposed on a table 106 of a scribe device, in which an LTCC substrate on which four functional regions are formed is shown. The brittle material substrate 107 is provided with a pair of alignment marks at both ends of each line to be scribed in advance. Here, eight alignment marks are formed annularly along the outer periphery, and each alignment mark is A to H as shown. Although the brittle material substrate 107 is after baking, before baking, four square functional areas are formed in the grid | lattice form, but the deformation | transformation arises at the time of baking. In this embodiment, the brittle material substrate is scribed based on a scribing method and a recipe data table describing a pair of alignment marks indicating lines to be scribed in advance.

When the operation starts in Fig. 6, in step S11, the alignment marks A and B are detected by the CCD cameras 108a and 108b, and alignment is performed so as to coincide with the lines connecting the alignment marks. This first drives the monitor 104, moves the table 106 in the y-axis direction, and drives the monitor 105 to rotate the table 106 so as to eliminate the angle shift when there is an angle shift. Do it. When the alignment is completed, the scribe head 112 is moved in the x-axis direction by the linear motor 113, the scribe head 112 is lowered to scribe between the alignment marks A and B (step S12). ). When the scribing between A and B ends, the scribe head 112 is raised. In addition, the motor 104 is driven based on the recipe data table to move the table in the y-axis direction to perform pitch transfer from alignment marks A and B to C and D (step S13). Then, the alignment marks between C and D are detected by the CCD cameras 108a and 108b, and the y-axis position is finely adjusted to match the lines connecting the alignment marks C and D by acquiring the position and angle data of the y-axis. Then, when there is an angle shift, the table 106 is rotated so as to eliminate the angle shift (step S14). Next, in step S15, the scribe head 112 is lowered and scribe is performed between alignment marks C and D. Then, as shown in FIG.

In step S16, the table is moved in the y-axis direction for pitch transfer from the line between the alignment marks C and D to the line between the alignment marks E and F. FIG. In addition, in step S17, alignment is performed along the alignment marks E and F. FIG. Similarly, scribe between E and F is performed in step S18.

In step S19, a street adjust is performed at the alignment mark F. Then, as shown in FIG. This is to move in the y-axis direction so as to be able to scribe from the line including the alignment mark E after the rotation by 90 ° using the position data of the alignment mark F. FIG. Then, the motor 105 is driven from the motor driver 126 to rotate the table 106 by 90 degrees (step S20). And alignment between alignment marks E and A is performed (step S21), and scribe between alignment marks E and A is performed. In the same manner, the movement of the table in the y-axis direction, the alignment between the alignment marks H and G, the scribe, the alignment between the alignment marks F and B, and the scribe are repeated (steps S22 to S28). In step S29, the process of performing street adjust is completed.

Thus, in embodiment, since a pair of alignment mark is detected for every scribe and the line which connects an alignment mark is set as a scribe line, even in the case of a brittle material board | substrate which is easy to produce deformation at the time of baking like an LTCC board | substrate, Scribing can be performed correctly based on the alignment mark formed in the. Thereby, the dimensional accuracy of a product board | substrate can be improved, and as an extreme example, forming a scribe line on the functional area | region of a product board | substrate can be prevented, and the yield of a product can be improved.

In addition, the brittle material substrate and alignment mark shown here may be a board | substrate which has many functional area | region and alignment mark further as an example. As shown in Fig. 5, not only alignment is performed horizontally and vertically, but also the substrate deformed into a trapezoidal shape as shown in Fig. 7 due to the deflection of shrinkage due to firing, for example, other irregularities. The substrate can also be scribed in a line along a desired alignment mark.

Moreover, in this embodiment, while moving a table to a y-axis direction by a moving means, it rotates a table and moves a scribe head to an x-axis direction. Instead of this, the table may be moved in the x-axis and y-axis directions as the moving means, or the scribe head may be moved in the x-axis and y-axis directions.

In this embodiment, the brittle material substrate is a low-temperature calcined ceramic substrate, but is particularly effective for scribing (particularly, scribing to obtain small product substrates) for substrates (especially small substrates) that are susceptible to deformation. Moreover, even if it is a glass substrate used for a liquid crystal panel, etc., another board | substrate can apply this invention, and it can scribe more correctly.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention can be widely used for the step of forming a scribe line of a brittle material substrate such as a division of a low temperature calcined ceramic substrate or a glass substrate.

1 is a view showing an example of a glass substrate before scribing.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a low-temperature calcined ceramic substrate before scribing after firing. FIG.

3 is a perspective view showing a scribing apparatus according to the present embodiment.

4 is a block diagram showing a controller of the present embodiment.

5 is a view showing a brittle material substrate before scribing according to the present embodiment.

6 is a flowchart showing a scribe operation of the scribe device according to the present embodiment.

7 is a view showing another example of a brittle material substrate before scribing.

(Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing)

100: scribe device

101: moving table

102a, 102b: guide rail

103: ball screw

104, 105: motor

106: table

107 brittle material substrate

108a, 108b: CCD camera

109a, 109b: positioning pin

110: the bridge

111a, 111b: pillar

112: scribe head

113: linear motor

114: holder

115: Scribing Wheel

120: controller

121: image processing unit

122: control unit

123: input unit

124: Y motor drive unit

126: motor drive unit for rotation

127: scribe head drive unit

128: monitor

129: recipe data holding unit

Claims (3)

A scribing apparatus for scribing a functional region formed on a brittle material substrate for each functional region and scribing to make a product substrate, The brittle material substrate is a pair of alignment mark is set for each scribe line, The scribe device, A table on which the brittle material substrate is installed; A scribing head which is freely formed so as to face the brittle material substrate on the table, and supports a scribing wheel at its tip; Moving means for relatively moving the scribe head and the brittle material substrate while pressing the scribing wheel against the surface of the brittle material substrate; A camera for photographing an alignment mark formed at an end of a line to be scribed of the brittle material substrate; Holding a recipe data table including a scribing line in advance, and relative to the brittle material substrate so as to correspond to a line connecting a pair of alignment marks formed on the brittle material substrate by the moving means based on the recipe data table. And a controller configured to move the scribe head up and down to perform scribing. The method of claim 1, The scribe head is a scribing apparatus, characterized in that using a high penetrating scribing wheel. A scribing method of scribing a functional region formed on a brittle material substrate for each functional region and scribing to make a product substrate, The brittle material substrate is a pair of alignment mark is set for each scribe line, For each scribe line, a pair of alignment marks formed on the brittle material substrate is detected, Move the table to scribe a line through the pair of alignment marks, And a scribe head is dropped on the brittle material substrate to scribe the brittle material substrate along a line connecting the alignment marks.

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