Patents by Inventor Terence Spoor

Terence Spoor 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: 6529021
    Abstract: A self scrubbing buckling beam contactor for contacting an array of pads positioned on a device under test is described. The contactor consists of three insulating dies: a top, an offset and a lower die separated from each other by an insulated spacer of variable thickness. Each die is provided with holes. The buckling beam has an array of flexible wires positioned substantially perpendicular to the dies, each of the flexible wires crossing a corresponding hole in each of the top, offset and lower dies to allow each wire respectively contact a pad of the device under test. By shifting the center of the hole of the lower die relative to the center of the offset die, the tip of the wire exits from the lower die at an angle with respect to the plane formed by the pads of the device under test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Yuet-Ying Yu, Daniel G Berger, Camille Proietti Bowne, Scott Langenthal, Charles H Perry, Terence Spoor, Thomas Weiss