摘要 |
An apparatus for removing a ring-shaped reinforcement, edge from a ground semiconductor wafer, which is cohesively connected to an elastic carrier film and is fixed to a circumferential wafer frame via the carrier film, includes a holding device, which has a support having suction openings for holding the semiconductor wafer on the support surface of the support, and a separating device, which includes a device for integrally detaching the reinforcement edge from the carrier film. In order to be able to detach the reinforcement edge from the carrier film without damage, the holder device has a clamping device encompassing the support and serving for clamping the wafer frame and/or the carrier film, wherein the clamping device interacts with the support to stretch the carrier film, and the separating device has a tool guide with a dividing tool for moving the dividing tool between carrier film and reinforcement edge in order to detach the reinforcement edge in one piece from the carrier film stretched by interaction of clamping device and support. |