Patents by Inventor Henry E. Fitzsimmons

Henry E. Fitzsimmons has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7780060
    Abstract: Methods and articles for receiving times and temperatures for stages of a profile including solder heating stages to rework a populated printed circuit board (PCB), the rework including removing a first integrated circuit (IC) from the PCB, focusing heat on the first integrated circuit using an oven element during rework of the PCB, collecting actual temperature information from a plurality of temperature sensing elements to detect actual temperature information associated with the first integrated circuit, and generating a suggested modification for an operator to modify the time and/or the temperature of at least one of the stages in the profile in response to a fail status indicating that the collected actual temperature information did not meet temperatures for a variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Henry E. Fitzsimmons, John A. Cogliandro
  • Publication number: 20100127050
    Abstract: Methods and articles for receiving times and temperatures for stages of a profile including solder heating stages to rework a populated printed circuit board (PCB), the rework including removing a first integrated circuit (IC) from the PCB, focusing heat on the first integrated circuit using an oven element during rework of the PCB, collecting actual temperature information from a plurality of temperature sensing elements to detect actual temperature information associated with the first integrated circuit, and generating a suggested modification for an operator to modify the time and/or the temperature of at least one of the stages in the profile in response to a fail status indicating that the collected actual temperature information did not meet temperatures for a variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Henry E. Fitzsimmons, John A. Cogliandro
  • Patent number: 7681776
    Abstract: A system includes a first module to store times and temperatures for phases in a profile to rework a populated printed circuit board (PCB) for a first integrated circuit (IC) on the PCB and a second module to store suggestions for modifying one or more of the times and the temperatures in the profile to generate a revised profile, the suggestions being associated with pass/fail indications determined from actual temperature information for the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Henry E. Fitzsimmons, John A. Cogliandro
  • Publication number: 20080029580
    Abstract: A system includes a first module to store times and temperatures for phases in a profile to rework a populated printed circuit board (PCB) for a first integrated circuit (IC) on the PCB and a second module to store suggestions for modifying one or more of the times and the temperatures in the profile to generate a revised profile, the suggestions being associated with pass/fail indications determined from actual temperature information for the profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Henry E. Fitzsimmons, John A. Cogliandro