Patents Examined by Erin Saad
  • Method for shaping a laminate substrate
    Patent number: 9543253
    Abstract: A method including providing a laminate substrate, characterizing the laminate substrate for warpage characteristics, determining a horizontal plane distortion based on the warpage characteristics, and placing the laminate substrate into a fixture with an adjustment to correct the horizontal plane distortion, the adjustment being located in a center of the laminate substrate, wherein the adjustment contacts the laminate substrate. The method may further include fluxing the laminate substrate, placing a chip onto the laminate substrate, and placing the fixture into a reflow furnace to join the chip and the laminate substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Edmund Blackshear, Thomas E. Lombardi, Donald A. Merte, Steven P. Ostrander, Thomas Weiss, Jiantao Zheng
  • Ultra fine pitch wedge for thicker wire
    Patent number: 9543267
    Abstract: An ultra-fine pitch wedge bonding tool and method for its manufacture are disclosed. The wedge tool is formed with a foot width calculated to enable accurate bonding of wires separated at an ultra-fine pitch. The wedge tool is made out of a tungsten carbide alloy having characteristics conforming to specified constraints that lead to improved performance and enable the use of thicker wire. A pocket is formed at the tip of the wedge tool and a wire feeding hole is formed from the rear side of the tool and exiting inside the pocket, at an elevation above the bonding foot. Side walls are provided on both sides of the pocket to guide the wire exiting the feed hole inside the pocket towards the bonding foot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: MICRO POINT PRO LTD.
    Inventors: Uri Zaks, Irina Voskoboynikov, Yefim Prosso, Irina Sastiel
  • Method of manufacturing a damped part
    Patent number: 9534651
    Abstract: One embodiment includes a damped product including a first portion, a second portion, a first cavity formed in one of the first portion or the second portion, and a frictional damping insert at least partially received in the first cavity so that the first portion and the second portion completely enclose the frictional damping insert and so that vibration of the product is damped by the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Michael D. Hanna, Mohan Sundar, James G. Schroth, Thomas C. Zebehazy
  • Superplastically formed ultrasonically welded metallic structure
    Patent number: 9527571
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of making a structure by ultrasonic welding and superplastic forming. The method comprises assembling a plurality of workpieces comprising a first workpiece including a first material having superplastic characteristics; ultrasonically welding the first workpiece to a second workpiece, to form an assembly; heating the assembly to a temperature at which the first material having superplastic characteristics is capable of superplastic deformation, and injecting a fluid between the first workpiece and the second workpiece to form a cavity between the first workpiece and the second workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: The Beoing Company
    Inventor: Kevin Slattery
  • Lead-free solder ball
    Patent number: 9527167
    Abstract: A lead-free solder ball for electrodes of a BGA or CSP comprising 0.5-1.1 mass % of Ag, 0.7-0.8 mass % of Cu, 0.05-0.08 mass % of Ni, and a remainder of Sn. Even when a printed circuit board to which the solder ball is bonded has Cu electrodes or Au-plated or Au/Pd-plated Ni electrodes, the solder ball has good resistance to drop impacts. The composition may further contain at least one element selected from Fe, Co, and Pt in a total amount of 0.003-0.1 mass % or at least one element selected from Bi, In, Sb, P, and Ge in a total amount of 0.003-0.1 mass %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Senju Metal Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Ohnishi, Yoshie Yamanaka, Ken Tachibana
  • Connection replacement for a drilling mud motor
    Patent number: 9522443
    Abstract: A method for reconditioning a rotary connection of a rotor on a drilling mud rotor. A new rotary connection is machined from a metal blank and is provided with an externally threaded pin end which is subsequently screwed into a mating female threaded opening provided on the rotor body. The new metal connection is welded to the rotor body at an intersection of the connection and selected end of the rotor body. The threaded end of the new connection is threaded a predetermined depth which is selected to bottom out at a selected depth within the mating female threaded opening provided on the rotor body prior to the welding step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Hunting Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Bowar, Tyler J. Batt, William Michael Webber
  • Two-step direct bonding processes and tools for performing the same
    Patent number: 9521795
    Abstract: A method includes placing a plurality of first package components over second package components, which are included in a third package component. First metal connectors in the first package components are aligned to respective second metal connectors of the second package components. After the plurality of first package components is placed, a metal-to-metal bonding is performed to bond the first metal connectors to the second metal connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Li Hsiao, Da-Yuan Shih, Chih-Hang Tung, Chen-Hua Yu
  • Corrugated solder pre-form and method of use
    Patent number: 9515444
    Abstract: A solder pre-form for soldering a coaxial cable to a connector body is provided with a plurality of flux grooves on a cable side and a connector side. The solder pre-form may also have a plurality of holes between the cable and connector sides. In a method of use, flux is applied to the flux grooves and the solder pre-form applied to encircle the outer conductor which is then inserted into the connector body and the solder pre-form melted to complete the solder interconnection. Where holes are present, flux may be applied to the connector side, passing through the holes also to the cable side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Kendrick Van Swearingen
  • Soldering iron with automatic soldering connection validation
    Patent number: 9516762
    Abstract: A soldering iron station and a method thereof for a soldering joint connection validation, the method including: identifying a type of the soldering cartridge being used; performing a preliminary validation by measuring the soldering tip temperature, after the soldering event has started; monitoring the power level delivered to the soldering tip to detect liquidus occurrence; determining the thickness of an intermetallic component (IMC) of the soldering joint; determining whether the thickness of the IMC is within a predetermined rage, within a predetermined cooling time period; and indicating that a reliable soldering joint connection is formed, when the thickness of the IMC is within the predetermined rage, within the predetermined cooling time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: OK International Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Marino, Hoa Nguyen
  • Intelligent soldering cartridge for automatic soldering connection validation
    Patent number: 9511439
    Abstract: An intelligent soldering cartridge that includes: a housing; a solder tip; a heater for heating the solder tip; a storage device for storing information about characteristics of the cartridge; a processor for retrieving the information about characteristics of the cartridge, monitoring the power level delivered to the solder tip to detect liquidus occurrence at a solder joint, determining a thickness of an intermetallic compound (IMC) of the solder joint using some of the retrieved information, determining whether the thickness of the IMC is within a predetermined range, and generating an indication signal indicating that a reliable solder joint connection is formed when the thickness of the IMC is within the predetermined range; and an interface for transmitting the indication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: OK INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth D. Marino, Hoa Nguyen
  • Combined steel sheet pile, diaphragm wall, and method of disassembling combined steel sheet pile
    Patent number: 9512590
    Abstract: A method of disassembling a combined steel sheet pile in which a steel sheet pile and an H-shaped steel are joined to each other, in which, when viewed in a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction, in a weld zone formed by a fillet weld, the weld zone is cut off to leave a portion on a side which is closer to the steel sheet pile than a throat depth surface, and thereby the combined steel sheet pile is disassembled into the steel sheet pile and the H-shaped steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nagatsu, Shigeki Terasaki, Kei Teshima, Tetsuya Akahoshi
  • Method and device for the friction stir welding of two components
    Patent number: 9498842
    Abstract: A method for the friction stir welding of two components, in particular of two shell components of a fuselage structure of an aircraft and spacecraft, said method comprising the following method steps: positioning the two components relative to one another in such a way that a connection region is formed between the two components; friction stir welding the two components by a friction stir welding tool which penetrates the connection region in order to produce a weld which permeates the connection region with the formation of an unpenetrated weld edge portion of the connection region; and introducing internal compressive stresses, at least in the weld edge portion of the connection region. Further a device for the friction stir welding of two components, in particular of two shell components of a fuselage structure of an aircraft and spacecraft is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Domenico Furfari, Marco Pacchione
  • Reactive materials and thermal spray methods of making same
    Patent number: 9499895
    Abstract: The present invention relates to reactive materials formed by thermal spray techniques. The thermally sprayed reactive materials have low porosity and high structural integrity. The reactive materials are useful for applications such as shaped charges, thermite welding, near net shaped components and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Surface Treatment Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Langan, W. Mark Buchta, Michael A. Riley
  • Auxiliary device for welding spindle disks, having a damping belt, and friction welding method
    Patent number: 9498841
    Abstract: A belt including notches alternating with bushings on its inside surface is arranged around a disk, so as to encase it and to squeeze its periphery, the bushings penetrating into slot necks designed to house blade roots, so as to apply an elastic tightening force on the teeth and prevent fatigue cracks from forming during inertial friction welding of the disk with other parts of the rotor, these cracks possibly appearing at fillet connections of the teeth to the central part of the disk. The belt is made from elastic polymer with good internal viscosity, and damping properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Bour
  • Method for manufacturing large mill cylinders
    Patent number: 9498781
    Abstract: A plurality of cylinder sections are welded together to form a milling cylinder, wherein, prior to welding, individual cylinder sections are machined in the region of their end edges to be welded, using at least one machining tool. Furthermore, the cylinder section to be machined is provided with inwardly oriented bracing means, wherein a temporary axle is fitted on the bracing means such that the temporary axle is oriented in the mid-axis of the cylinder section, and wherein the at least one machining tool is fastened to the temporary axle by means of a holder and the machining tool is rotated relative to the cylinder section about or with the temporary axle during the machining of the end edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS AG
    Inventors: Andreas Echelmeyer, Norbert Patzelt, Bernd Kripzak, Herbert Pingel
  • Aluminium alloy sheet product or extruded product for fluxless brazing
    Patent number: 9486881
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet product or extruded product for fluxless brazing, including an aluminum alloy core having on at least one face an aluminum filler clad layer containing 4% to 15% of Si, the filler clad layer having an inner-surface and an outer-surface, the inner-surface is facing the aluminum alloy core and the outer-surface is facing a coating layer of 2 to 45 mg/sq·m of Bi or of a Bi-based alloy. Furthermore, a method of brazing a brazed assembly incorporating at least one member made from the brazing sheet material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: ALERIS ROLLED PRODUCTS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Adrianus Jacobus Wittebrood, Steven Kirkham, Achim Bürger, Klaus Vieregge
  • Method for producing a flexible transparent electrode using cesium and a flexible transparent electrode produced thereby
    Patent number: 9466403
    Abstract: An method for preparing a flexible transparent electrode film that has a high transmittance and low sheet resistance without having to go through a separate heating process by using cesium, and a flexible transparent electrode film prepared thereby, the method including: applying a nanowire transparent conductive film on a high molecular base material film; coating the nanowire transparent conductive film with a sol-gel solution wherein titanium dioxide and cesium are mixed; and welding the nanowire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Research & Business Foundation SUNGYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hoojeong Lee, Sunho Kim, Sekwon Na, Jun Gu Kang
  • Low void solder joint for multiple reflow applications
    Patent number: 9468136
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for attaching a heat spreader to a die and includes disposing a solder thermal interface material between a first surface of a die and a first surface of a heat spreader without disposing a liquid flux between the die and the heat spreader to form an assembly, wherein at least one of the first surface of the die and a first surface of the heat spreader have disposed thereon a metallization structure comprising a transition layer and a sacrificial metallization layer, the sacrificial metallization layer disposed as an outer layer to the metallization structure adjacent the solder thermal interface material; and heating the assembly to melt the thermal interface and attach the die to the heat spreader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Indium Corporation
    Inventors: Jordan Peter Ross, Amanda Hartnett, Robert Norman Jarrett
  • Joining approaches for sandwich structures
    Patent number: 9457434
    Abstract: A method for securing sandwich structures together, especially vehicle structures. In one embodiment, two sandwich structures are perpendicularly secured together, where a first one of the sandwich structures includes a micro-truss core having one unit cell geometry and second one of the sandwich structures includes a micro-truss core having different unit cell geometry. The micro-truss core of the second sandwich structure includes a micro-truss extension fabricated at the same time as the micro-truss core and having the same unit cell geometry as the micro-truss core for the first sandwich structure. The extension is inserted in an open area between face sheets in the first sandwich structure so that it abuts against the micro-truss core in the first sandwich structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Nilesh D. Mankame, Jan H. Aase, Mark O. Vann
  • Method for manufacturing insulating glazing
    Patent number: 9458058
    Abstract: The Present invention relates to a method for manufacturing at least one portion of a seal ensuring gas-tightness between at least one first and one second glass panel in a glazing system, the method including the following steps: depositing a first adhesive layer on a first peripheral area of the first panel and a second adhesive layer on a second peripheral area of the second panel; welding a first metal seal element to the first adhesive layer; welding a second metal seal element or said first metal seal element to the second adhesive layer. According to the invention, the first and second adhesive layers are deposited using a high speed oxy-fuel flame-spraying method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: AGC GLASS EUROPE
    Inventors: Olivier Bouesnard, Francois Closset