PURPOSE: To increase the inspection accuracy for the attaching condition of a protective and adhesive tape which is attached to the surface of a wafer.
CONSTITUTION: The device is provided with a heating table 7 for heating a wafer W, an equipment controlling section 14 which starts the photographing of an infrared camera 10 after the wafer W is heated for a specified period of time, and an image processing section 25 which determines an area of a part of a protective and adhesive tape which is not adhered tightly to the surface of the wafer W from a digitized infrared image and which judges the attaching condition of the tape. In this method, the attaching condition of the tape is inspected by using, a primary quantity, a quantity of infrared rays emitted from the surface of the wafer W.