US 12,203,961 B2
Vertical probe card device and fence-like probe thereof
Wei-Jhih Su, Taichung (TW); Chao-Hui Tseng, New Taipei (TW); Hao-Yen Cheng, Taoyuan (TW); and Mei-Hui Chen, Taoyuan (TW)
Assigned to CHUNGHWA PRECISION TEST TECH. CO., LTD., Taoyuan (TW)
Filed by CHUNGHWA PRECISION TEST TECH. CO., LTD., Taoyuan (TW)
Filed on Nov. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,217.
Claims priority of application No. 111112376 (TW), filed on Mar. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0314480 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G01R 1/073 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 1/07342 (2013.01) 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vertical probe card device, comprising:
a first guiding board unit and a second guiding board unit that is spaced apart from the first guiding board unit; and
a plurality of fence-like probes passing through the first guiding board unit and the second guiding board unit, wherein each of the fence-like probes has a probe length within a range from 6 mm to 8 mm, and each of the fence-like probes includes:
a fence-like segment having an elongated shape defining a longitudinal direction, wherein the fence-like segment includes:
a penetrating slot formed along the longitudinal direction and having a length greater than 65% of the probe length; and
a first protrusion extending from one of two long walls of the penetrating slot by a first predetermined width and spaced apart from another one of the two long walls of the penetrating slot by a first gap; and
a connection segment and a testing segment that are respectively connected to two end portions of the fence-like segment and that respectively pass through the first guiding board unit and the second guiding board unit;
wherein, when the first guiding board unit and the second guiding board unit are staggered with each other, the fence-like segments of the fence-like probes elastically bend in a same direction;
wherein, in each of the fence-like probes, the fence-like segment includes a second protrusion that extends from one of the two long walls of the penetrating slot by a second predetermined width and that is spaced apart from another one of the two long walls of the penetrating slot by a second gap;
wherein, each of the fence-like probes includes a ceramic layer that is directly formed on an outer surface of the fence-like segment and that is not arranged in the first guiding board unit and the second guiding board unit, and wherein a cross-cut test result of the ceramic layer of each of the fence-like probes is at least class 3B under the ASTM standard.