Patents Represented by Attorney Norman R. Bardales
  • Patent number: 5109318
    Abstract: A pluggable electronic circuit package assembly for use with an edge type connector has a two piece heat sink housing. The heat sink housing has internal retention posts and internal posts receiving recesses that allow the two pieces to be snap fit together for easy assembly and disassembly. Also, a resilient latches the connector to the assembly. In one embodiment, the latch latches the connector to the assembly's printed circuit substrate, the edge of which substrate plugs into the connector. In other embodiments, the latch latches the connector to the assembly's heat sink housing. Also, in one embodiment, the latch is demountable and combined with an external clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Funari, Terence C. Godown, Scott D. Reynolds, Bahgat G. Sammakia
  • Patent number: 5050296
    Abstract: A method for affixing pins to a ceramic substrate substantially eliminating cracking of the substrate by pre-bulging the pin blanks and, then after inserting the pin blanks into the substrate, a clearance is provided between the lower pin holding die and the lower face of the substrate for the subsequent head forming operation on the opposite face of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alan J. Emerick, Eugene L. Marsh, Thomas L. Miller, Jerzy M. Zalesinski
  • Patent number: 4996585
    Abstract: An electronic package (11) which comprises a substrate (12) having several chips (13) arranged thereon, and a plurality of connector pins (26) fitted in pin plates (21-24) and electrically connected via conductors to the chips (13). Each pin plate is mounted by means of at least one flexible connector element (29) connected to the conductors at a respective peripheral section (16-19) of the substrate (12). The pin plates have a base surface in the form of any discretionary polygon, in such a manner that, when folded, form a plane substantially flush with the plane of the substrate (12) into a position beneath the substrate (12), or vice versa. Thus an electronic package is obtained which is less complex in its manufacture and covers a considerably reduced base surface while offering a comparable performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Harald Gruber, Kurt Hinrichsmeyer, Heinz G. Horbach, Ewald E. Stadler
  • Patent number: 4969259
    Abstract: A compliant portion of the tubular body of a compliant pin is configured with an elliptical cross section. Preferably, the tubular body is seamless but alternatively may have a seam with the edges of the seam connected together. The configuration is particularly useful for micro-miniature pins. In the preferred method embodiment, on one side of a member to which the pin is to be affixed, the leading end of a blank tubular pin is inserted into the mating receptacle of the member and such that the blank pin provides a protrusion or extension on the opposite side of the member. A compliant section with an elliptical cross section if formed in a predetermined part of the protrusion and thereafter the pin is partially retracted into the receptacle so that the compliant section coacts with the receptacle to affix the pin to the member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 13, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph S. Macek, James R. Petrozello, Reinhold E. Tomek
  • Patent number: 4913600
    Abstract: A drilling unit comprises a housing (5), a drilling spindle housing means (3) axially moveable within said housing (5), a driling spindle (2) rotatably received within said housing (5) and driven by a driving means (12), a plunger (15) connected to the drilling spindle housing means (3) and piston means (22) slideably received within said housing (5) and operatively connected to the plunger (15). The plunger (15) is connected to the piston means (22) with a first clearance (51) in a plane normal to the direction (A) of the axial movement of the plunger. The piston means (22) further is connected to the plunger (15) with a second clearance (52) in the direction of the axis (A) of said drilling unit. The drilling unit exhibits excellent linearity of axial motion combined with a high degree of accuracy and, at the same time, requires as little space as possible in a plane parallel to a plane, in which a workpiece is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dieter Dierich, Walter Rotter, Conrad Trollmann
  • Patent number: 4912772
    Abstract: In a circuit package having a connector for connecting a pin array circuit module and a printed circuit board, the connector is a molded plastic planar member with a plurality of openings extending through the member. In each opening, the member has two integral and spaced first and second parts having respectively oppositely aligned faces for receiving therebetween one of the pins. At least one of the parts resiliently extends across the opening, and at least one of the faces is a contact surface which mates with a pin of the module. A conductive layer with a predetermined circuit pattern is disposed on the member and includes conductors which extend from the contact surface to terminals disposed on the bottom surface of the member. The terminals are mateable with the input/output pads of the board. The member is disposed between the board and the module to provide the connection between the module and the board with the terminals of the member and the pads of the board being in contacting relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1990
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Beaudry, Jr., Peter A. Engel, James R. Petrozello, Steven R. Shinners
  • Patent number: 4814857
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pluggable, high density, reliable integrated circuit package. The package has a plurality of integrated circuit chips mounted on a multilayer ceramic substrate. Input-output signals are provided to the module by means of mating male female input-output pins which are located on the bottom of the module. Power is provided to the module from a multilayer ceramic frame through an edge connector that is an integral part of the mulltilayer ceramic substrate. Matching circuit vias located on the edge of the multilayer ceramic substrate and on the edge of the multilayer ceramic frame are cut and tinned with tin-lead to provide power input connections. When the module is plugged into the circuit board the edge connectors on the module mate with the edge connectors in the ceramic frame. Since the frame is made of the same material as the module substrate, the power connectors have excellent thermal match and they are highly reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: George G. Werbizky
  • Patent number: 4741100
    Abstract: A pin which has a compressive strength less than the tensile strength of a substrate can be fixed into a hole in the substrate when the substrate is held between a stopping block and a clamp by transporting the pin into the hole with sufficient kinetic energy that the pin is forged into a shape defined by the hole upon impacting the stopping block.The pin can be retained in the substrate by forging it into a headed and bulged shape defined by recesses in the stopping block and the clamp on either side of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1988
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Mark V. Pierson
  • Patent number: 4626446
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for determining the deposition capability of an electroless metal plating bath by monitoring the difference in instantaneous electrical potential between a pair of test coupons immersed in the bath in which one coupon is seeded to initiate plating thereon of the bath metal and the other coupon has a surface of the bath metal. The magnitude of the difference in potential and its change with respect to time during concurrent immersion of both coupons indicate the probable rate and quality of the bath deposition onto work pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Capwell, Robert G. Rickert
  • Patent number: 4586830
    Abstract: Rotary gas bearing and seal apparatus is disclosed which seals a region between the two planar bearing surfaces that is radially offset from the axis of rotation of the bearing. In the preferred embodiment, two arcuate gas sink channels sink the gas of the bearing away from the region. The gas outside the region and the two channels coact to effect the seal. A gas bearing and vacuum seal embodiment using air or alternatively nitrogen as the bearing gas is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Donald L. Carter
  • Patent number: 4580137
    Abstract: A LSSD testable latch circuit apparatus is disclosed which has systems operational and LSSD testing operational modes. The apparatus is arranged with first and second groups of flip-flops, each group having three flip-flops. Control means allows for selective operation of the first group of flop-flops as a D-type edge triggered latch during the systems operational mode and of the first and second groups as a three-stage shift register during the LSSD testing operational mode. The control means also allows the D-type edge-triggered latch to have override asynchronously set and/or reset control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy S. Fiedler, Richard P. Moore
  • Patent number: 4570130
    Abstract: A phase lock loop oscillator is provided with a voltage controlled oscillator which includes a current controlled oscillator and an input controller therefor that maintains the center frequency of the current controlled oscillator substantially constant irrespective of changes in the gain of the voltage controlled oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1986
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David R. Grindel, Gary A. Trudgen
  • Patent number: 4555769
    Abstract: A modular modulus-N residue circuit apparatus uses cascode logic networks in the modules for generating greater than one odd integer N residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric L. Carter, Harold T. Ward
  • Patent number: 4550493
    Abstract: A machine for forming a head and a bulge on a copper pin and to connect the pin to a ceramic substrate by a single application of impact force at high velocity and controlled energy conditions includes an air cylinder within which a piston of controlled mass moves due to the effect of compressed air stored in an accumulator. A die block includes a two dimensional array of holes into which are fitted pin blanks that extend above the surface of the die block and on which is fitted a substrate having an identical array of pin holes formed therein. The pins are fitted within the die block and on the substrate such that a predetermined length of the pin blank extends above the surface of the substrate and a controlled length of the pin blanks extends between the substrate and the die block. The pins are retained within the die against axial movement and the holes in the substrate and die block provide radial restraint to the pins following the application of the impact force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Russell E. Darrow, Glenn J. Ingraham, John D. Larnerd, Robert W. Nesky
  • Patent number: 4544317
    Abstract: A vacuum-to-vacuum entry system which uses a rotary transport to transfer workpieces between two vacuum environments in a direction parallel to its axis of rotation and through the interface of a combination rotary gas bearing and seal. The combination gas bearing and seal seals off a zone in the gap between its two planar bearing surfaces that is radially offset from the axis of rotation of the bearing which is coincidental with the transport axis. Two arcuate gas sink channels on one of the bearing surfaces sink the gas of the bearing away from the zone. The bearing gas outside the zone in the gap and the two channels coact to effect a peripheral seal about the zone allowing the two vacuum environments when appropriately aligned to be in sealed communication with each other through the zone. A preferred embodiment is described for the transfer of ceramic substrates with circuitized surfaces between two vacuums environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Donald L. Carter
  • Patent number: 4436001
    Abstract: Stripping and cutting apparatus in which a pair of disc cutters are affixed on a common rotatable shaft that is pivotably mounted to a rotating head. An object having an inner core member and an outer concentric member, which in the preferred embodiment is insulated conductive tubing, is advanced through a central opening in the head. The speed of the head is controlled so that at one speed the shaft is centripetally pivoted to an inner radial position that causes the closest of the cutters to block the leading end of the object, and so that at another faster speed the shaft is centrifugally pivoted to an outer radial position which removes the particular cutter from the blocking relationship with the leading end of the object thereby allowing the object to be advanced past the remote cutter for a predetermined distance, and so that at another speed, which is less than the last mentioned speed, the shaft is centripetally pivoted inward to provide concurrent cutting of the object by the two disc cutters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James M. Ergler, Harold Kohn, Michael Smetana
  • Patent number: 4434134
    Abstract: Ceramic substrates are pinned using powdered metallurgy pins formed in situ on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Russell E. Darrow, Joseph Funari, George S. Kotrch, George C. Phillips
  • Patent number: 4421608
    Abstract: A fluid is applied between the carrier member and the conductive member of a peel apart structure during the peel apart operation between the carrier member and the conductive member. The fluid reduces the bonding strength between the carrier member and the conductive member and thus maintains the integrity of the conductive member as the carrier member is peeled away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Donald G. McBride
  • Patent number: 4415113
    Abstract: Multiple pins are affixed in the holes of a ceramic substrate by simultaneously impacting the pins with a piston assembly which temporarily places the pins in a viscoelastic fluid state. Upon return of the pins and the resultant fluid flow to its undisturbed solid state, each pin is left with an extension that is in interlocking engaged relationship with the ceramic particles of the substrate in the region surrounding the particular holes in which the pins have been located.The piston assembly is driven by a pneumatic high pressure system which is adjustable to the number of pins being simultaneously impacted. Release of the piston assembly is delayed until the air pressure becomes stabilized prior to impact. A vacuum pressure system returns the piston to its originating position after impact whereupon the piston assembly is ready for the next impact cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Houser, Harold Kohn, Gordon L. Williams
  • Patent number: 4409071
    Abstract: A low conductivity fluid mask in a predetermined fluid state is used as a mask in an electroplating jet system method. Preferred embodiments describe a deionized water mask in the liquid fluid state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eric P. Dibble, Thomas E. Lynch