Patents by Inventor Robert M. Kennedy, III

Robert M. Kennedy, III 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: 6285542
    Abstract: A very small electronic device adapted for inverted mounting to a circuit board includes a multiplicity of capacitors and resistors built on a substrate. The capacitors and resistors are interconnected so as to provide multiple RC circuits in various circuit arrangements. The multiple layers of the device are covered by an encapsulate having openings to expose terminal pads of the RC circuits. The openings are filled with solder to produce the individual terminations of the device in a ball grid array (BGA). The device saves cost and/or board space in the manufacture of larger electronic equipment through the elimination of multiple discrete components. In addition, very low inductance is achieved due to the close proximity of the device to a circuit board on which it is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: AVX Corporation
    Inventors: Robert M. Kennedy, III, Gheorghe Korony, Donghang Liu, Jeffrey P. Mevissen, Robert H. Heistand, II
  • Patent number: 4792378
    Abstract: A chemical vapor transport reactor gas dispersion disk (20) for counteracting vapor pressure gradients to provide a uniform deposition of material films on a semiconductor slice (37). The disk (20) has a number of apertures (22) arranged so as to increase in aperture area per unit of disk area when extending from the center of the disk (20) to its outer peripheral edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Alan D. Rose, Robert M. Kennedy, III