Patent attributes
The present invention relates to a method of fabricating a vertical probe head, whereas the vertical probe head is formed by the combination of at least a probe, a bottom guide plate and a top guide plate having at least a hole matching the probe. The probe is fabricated by a LIGA-like process combining with the processes of photolithography, etching and electroforming, and so on, so that the probe is equipped with comparatively better precision, strength and reliability and yet can be custom-made for satisfying various demands. In addition, both the top and bottom guide plates are made by a means of non-mechanical machining, which respectively is fabricated by processing a substrate using means of photolithography, etching and mask so as to fabricate holes for matching with the aforesaid probe. The vertical probe head of the invention is a breakthrough over the current probe head and thus breaks the bottleneck limiting the process of fabricating the same, such that the method disclosed in the invention enables the probe head to be fabricated by a cheaper and less complicated process with more probes to be arranged in a unit area.
