Abstract: An electronic package is provided including a substrate, a device mounted on the substrate, and a solder member electrically coupling the device to the substrate. The package includes a dielectric material positioned substantially around the solder member which forms a physical connection between the substrate and the device. The volume of the solder member contracts during melting thereof to prevent failure of the physical connection and/or the electrical coupling between the substrate and the device.

Abstract: An arrangement and method for the degassing small high-aspect ratio drilled holes or vias which are present in panels such as printed circuit boards prior to wet chemical processing, including copper plating of the vias, in order to remove any air or gas bubbles from the vias tending to inhibit the reliable plating thereof. This is carried out through the utilization of an ultrasonic prewetting in a liquid bath preceding cleaning for the electroless plating process, thereby enabling all of the vias or holes to be degassed; in effect, having air removed and the vias or holes filled with liquid; thereby allowing subsequent process cleansing solutions to easily flow into the respective holes or vias in order to facilitate the electroless copper plating process.

Abstract: A method for measuring performance of test points having one or more instructions in a code sequence. A code sequence with two or more test points is repetitively executed, while measuring the execution time. The code sequence is modified by removing one test point. The modified code sequence is repetitively executed, again measuring the execution time. The modification and execution steps are repeated until no test points remain in the current code sequence. All execution and modification steps are repeated a defined number of times, saving the execution times to a data file. The minimum execution time for each code sequence from any run is assigned to that code sequence. The execution time of a particular test point is calculated by subtracting the assigned execution time for the code sequence after removing the particular test point from the assigned execution time for the code sequence be fore removing the particular test point.

Abstract: An electronic interconnection assembly having a thin film bonded to either a glass ceramic or to an organic laminate substrate, and a method for attaching a thin film wiring package to the substrate. Provided is the utilization of adhesives which may be processed at significantly lower temperatures so as to avoid damaging components, the wiring package and interconnection joints. Moreover, pursuant to specific aspects, the joining of the thin film to the substrate may be implemented with the utilization of dendrites.

Abstract: A method and system for controlling access to a source application. The method comprises the steps of providing a controlling application, and binding the source application to the controlling application to allow the controlling application to change access to the source application. Information is passed from the source application to the controlling application to identify the source application and reference data to define access to the source application, and group and role definitions are constructed within the controlling application. An access definition is created by assigning a user access to the source application based on the group and role definitions and the reference data, and that access definition is exported to the source application.

Abstract: A method and system for constructing rule-based intelligent agents that process events on behalf of one or more users. The intelligent agents have event-generating modules that supply events to be processed, and event-processing modules that process the events by evaluating rules. Each event-processing module of the agent includes multiple sets of rules, one or more such sets for each user of the agent. A selection key related to the user is associated with a rule set, and for event-generating modules a selection key indicates the user on whose behalf the event was generated. When the event-processing module receives an event with a selection key, the module locates and evaluates the rule set(s) which have a matching key to launch the corresponding actions.

Abstract: A ribbon cable includes electrical conductors surrounded by an insulator and vent tubes positioned adjacent and parallel to the conductors and insulator. The vent tubes allow airflow between an internal area of the enclosure and an external atmosphere and prevent access to the internal area of the enclosure.

Abstract: In a computing environment having clients with different semantics or protocols, a capability is provided that enables those clients to share the same data or files. A token management function is provided that allows clients that did not previously support token management to use the token management function to access the shared files. These capabilities are provided without requiring modifications to the client software.

Abstract: A fluid delivery device providing a pulsating discharge. The device comprises a housing having an elongated chamber, a fluid inlet passage to the chamber, and a cylindrical rotor mounted in the chamber and comprising a plurality of grooves. The inlet passage comprises a first fluid injection channel through which the fluid enters the chamber and impinges upon the grooves in the rotor. The fluid thereby rotates the rotor and exits as a fluid pulse through a linear fluid discharge. The grooves in the rotor may be helical such that the pulse of fluid traverses the linear fluid discharge from one portion to another or sequences through a linearly aligned plurality of fluid exits. The device may further comprise a second fluid inlet passage adapted to inject a second fluid into the grooves. One fluid may be compressible and one non-compressible. A method for cleaning an object, such as a circuit board, using the fluid delivery device of the present invention is also disclosed.

Abstract: An electronic circuit card and a process of manufacturing the electronic circuit card. The process includes the steps of providing the electronic circuit card with external electrical circuits. A photoimageable dielectric layer is formed on the electronic circuit card. A metal foil layer is laminated on the photoimageable dielectric layer and the metal foil layer is patterned to form a wire and a component add land pattern. The photoimageable dielectric layer is patterned and the wire and the component add land pattern are electrically connected to the electronic circuit card through a T-shaper or semicircular terminal.

Abstract: A ribbon cable includes electrical conductors surrounded by an insulator and vent tubes positioned adjacent and parallel to the conductors and insulator. The vent tubes allow airflow between an internal area of the enclosure and an external atmosphere and prevent access to the internal area of the enclosure.