Method and apparatus for forming a ball at a bonding wire end

摘要

In a method and apparatus for making uniform size balls at the end of bonding wires, a constant current circuit is installed between a high voltage power source and a discharge electrode so that a constant high voltage is applied between the bonding wire end and the discharge electrode and a discharge voltage is detected by a discharge voltage detecting circuit so that the thus detected discharge voltage is converted into a time so that a discharge time setting circuit which controls the constant current circuit regulates the discharge time period of the high voltage.