Patents Examined by C. J. Arbes
  • Patent number: 7882626
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wiring board having a semiconductor chip mounting surface for mounting a semiconductor chip thereon which is manufactured by a process including a step of forming a wiring layer and an insulating layer on a support board and a step of removing the support board, including a peeling layer forming step of forming a peeling layer on the support board formed by a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion which is equal to that of a semiconductor substrate constituting the semiconductor chip, and a support board removing step of removing the support board by carrying out a predetermined treatment over the peeling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Murayama, Mitsutoshi Higashi, Masahiro Sunohara
  • Patent number: 7882630
    Abstract: A method of installing an electrical transmission cable includes providing an electrical transmission cable extending from a first end to a second end. The cable includes a flexible, full tension splice between the first end and the second end. Additionally, the electrical transmission cable includes at least one composite wire. Additionally, the flexible, full tension splice is pulled over a first sheave assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Colin McCullough, Herve E. Deve, Todd N. Staffaroni
  • Patent number: 7877853
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an end effector assembly for sealing tissue includes the initial step of providing first and second electrically conductive sealing plates. The method also includes the steps of: encasing at least one of the electrically conductive sealing plates in a substantially moldable insulative material; applying a load to the electrically conductive sealing plates; allowing the insulative material to deform to create a gap between the sealing plates between about 0.001 inches to about 0.010 inches; and allowing the insulative material to cure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: TYCO Healthcare Group LP
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Unger, Robert M. Sharp, David W. Hixson, Chelsea Shields, Darion Peterson, Jeremy James, David M. Garrison, Michael R. Warzecha, Edward M. Chojin, Duane E. Kerr
  • Patent number: 7877873
    Abstract: A method for forming a wire bonding substrate is disclosed. A substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface is provided. A through hole is formed in the substrate. A conductive layer is formed on the first surface and the second surface of the substrate and covers a sidewall of the through hole. The conductive layer on the first surface of the substrate is patterned to form at least a first conductive pad, and the conductive layer on the second surface of the substrate is patterned to form at least a second conductive pad. An insulating layer is formed on the first surface and the second surface of the substrate and covers the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad. The insulating layer is recessed until top surfaces of the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad are exposed. A first metal layer is electroplated on the first conductive pad by applying current from the second conductive pad to the first conductive pad through the conductive layer passing the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: NAN YA PCB Corp.
    Inventors: Meng-Han Lee, Hung-En Hsu, Wei-Wen Lan, Yun-Hsiang Pai
  • Patent number: 7877852
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an end effector assembly for sealing tissue includes the initial step of providing a pair of first and second jaw members each including an inwardly facing electrically conductive sealing surface. The method also includes the steps of: coating the inwardly facing electrically conductive sealing surface of one or both jaw members with an insulative material, the coating having a thickness within the range of about 0.001 inches to about 0.010 inches; allowing the insulative material to cure onto the inwardly facing electrically conductive sealing surface; removing a portion of the insulative material from the inwardly facing electrically conductive sealing surface to form a series of stop members arranged thereacross; and assembling the pair of first and second jaw members about a pivot such that the two inwardly facing electrically conductive sealing surfaces are substantially opposed to each other in pivotal relation relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: TYCO Healthcare Group LP
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Unger, Robert M. Sharp, David W. Hixson, Chelsea Shields, Darion Peterson, Jeremy James, David M. Garrison, Michael R. Warzecha, Edward M. Chojin, Duane E. Kerr
  • Patent number: 7877876
    Abstract: The invention provides for a method of attaching printhead integrated circuitry to a carrier. The method includes scanning a wafer having a number of circuitry dies formed thereon to demarcate respective dies, aligning a die picker with a dice on the wafer according to a wafer substrate mapping scheme, and removing the dice from the wafer with the die picker. The method further includes the steps of transporting the dice to a placement station operatively positioning the carrier, aligning the dice with the carrier; and heat bonding the dice to the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd
    Inventors: David Oliver Burke, Jan Waszczuk, Desmond Bruce Boyton, Craig Donald Strudwicke, Peter John Morley Sobey, William Granger, Jason Mark Thelander, Eric Patrick O'Donnell
  • Patent number: 7877865
    Abstract: In a method of forming a wiring having a carbon nanotube, a lower wiring is formed on a substrate, and a catalyst layer is formed on the lower wiring. An insulating interlayer is formed on the substrate to cover the catalyst layer, and an opening is formed through the insulating interlayer to expose an upper face of the catalyst layer. A carbon nanotube wiring is formed in the opening, and an upper wiring is formed on the carbon nanotube wiring and the insulating interlayer to be electrically connected to the carbon nanotube wiring. A thermal stress is generated between the carbon nanotube wiring and the upper wiring to produce a dielectric breakdown of a native oxide layer formed on a surface of the carbon nanotube wiring. A wiring having a reduced electrical resistance between the carbon nanotube wiring and the upper wiring may be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-Woo Lee, Seong-Ho Moon, Dong-Woo Kim, Jung-Hyeon Kim, Hong-Sik Yoon
  • Patent number: 7874065
    Abstract: A process for making a multi-layered circuit board having electrical current traces includes providing a substrate having a 1st layer of conductive material to form a ground plane, plurality of metallic 1st traces on a 2nd side of the substrate having widths of approximately 25 microns or less, developing 1st ribs of photoresist forming 1st walls rising above upper surface of an adjacent seed layer trace, depositing 1st conductive signal traces having a thickness exceeding 25 microns into channels and over seed layer traces and stripping the ribs to leave 1st conductive traces having a height-to-transverse ratio exceeding 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Inventors: Vinh T. Nguyen, Claude A. S. Hamrick
  • Patent number: 7874068
    Abstract: A production method for an electronic chip component includes the steps of forming a first paste layer by applying paste onto a first end surface of an electronic component body with a second end surface being stuck onto a substrate having an adhesive surface and drying the paste, turning the electronic component body 180 degrees so as to stick the first end surface of the electronic component body onto the substrate by sliding a slider relative to the substrate in a state in which the slider is in contact with the first end surface of the electronic component body, forming a second paste layer by applying the paste onto the second end surface of the electronic component body and drying the paste, and firing the first and second paste layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Dooka, Kazunori Kunimoto, Katsunori Ogata, Naohiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 7870664
    Abstract: A method of making a circuitized substrate including a resistor comprised of material which includes a polymer resin and a quantity of nano-powders including a mixture of at least one metal component and at least one ceramic component. The ceramic component may be a ferroelectric ceramic and/or a high surface area ceramic and/or a transparent oxide and/or a dope manganite. Alternatively, the material will include the polymer resin and nano-powders, with the nano-powders comprising at least one metal coated ceramic and/or at least one oxide coated metal component. An electrical assembly (substrate and at least one electrical component) and an information handling system (e.g., personal computer) utilizing such a circuitized substrate are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Rabindra N. Das, John M. Lauffer, Vova R. Markovich
  • Patent number: 7870663
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing a multilayer wiring board, by which interlayer connection is efficiently performed and a non-penetrating hole having a hollow structure or a through hole can be formed at the same time without damaging a plated portion on the inner wall of the through hole. A first printed board (1) is provided with a wiring, which has a wiring section and a bump mounting pad (14), and a substrate section. The method is provided with a step of forming a solder bump (3) on at least a bump mounting pad on the first printed board or a pad section of a second printed board (2) having the pad section (15) by using a solder paste, and a step of bonding the first printed board and the second printed board in layers by having an insulating adhesive (4) between the first printed board and the second printed board and electrically connecting the first printed board with the second printed board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Chemical Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiichi Shinada, Masahiro Katou, Noriaki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 7866037
    Abstract: A metallization forming method comprises the steps of: patterning a silver halide emulsion on a surface of at least one side of a substrate in accordance with a desired metallization pattern to form a patterned emulsion layer; exposing the patterned emulsion layer; and thereafter developing the exposed patterned emulsion layer to form a patterned conductive silver layer having the metallization pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Seiichi Inoue, Akira Ichiki
  • Patent number: 7856712
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a female electrical terminal includes, according to one embodiment, blanking of strip of conductive material and forming a wire connecting portion to receive an electrical wire. The blank may include a contact arm extending into an area adjacent the wire connecting portion. The contact arm extends into this area from a terminal connecting portion at a predetermined angle. The contact arm may be straightened and folded prior to bending the terminal connecting portion into a tubular member for receiving the tab of a male terminal. The step of straightening the contact arm can be performed using a special coining process that applies pressure to the conductive material around the shoulder causing the conductive material to flow within a confined area allowing the contact arm to be straightened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Rainer Busies, Dirk Placzko
  • Patent number: 7849592
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing end and center locating connectors in interconnects between surface mount technology (SMT) connectors and printed circuit boards (PCBs). The connectors are adapted to maintain their connection even when the printed circuit board and/or the SMT connector expands or contracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Louis Brodsky, Amanda Elisa Mikhail
  • Patent number: 7849593
    Abstract: The invention provides a multi-layer circuit board sequentially having an insulating substrate, a first electrically conductive pattern arbitrarily formed, an insulating material layer and a second electrically conductive pattern formed by providing an electrically conductive material on a graft polymer pattern formed on the insulating material layer, and having an electrically conductive path which electrically connects the first electrically conductive pattern present on the insulating substrate and the second electrically conductive pattern. The graft polymer pattern includes a combination of a region where a graft polymer is present and a region where no graft polymer is present, or a combination of a region where a hydrophilic graft polymer is present and a region where a hydrophobic graft polymer is present.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Koichi Kawamura, Takeyoshi Kano
  • Patent number: 7845069
    Abstract: A method for forming an armored cable assembly includes: forming an armor sheath using an armor sheath forming apparatus, the armor sheath defining a sheath passage; forcibly feeding a transmission cable into the sheath passage upstream of an exit capstan to provide an excess length of the transmission cable in the armor sheath upstream of the exit capstan; and drawing the armor sheath downstream of the armor sheath forming apparatus using the exit capstan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Robert Brian Franklin, Jimmy Dameron
  • Patent number: 7845071
    Abstract: The present invention provides a substrate holding method capable of contributing to improvement in performance of an electronic part. A plastic film is adhered to a holding frame by using an adhesive tape having a proper gas releasing characteristic such that total quantity of gas detected when analysis using gas chromatograph mass spectrometry (dynamic HS-GC-MS) is conducted under test conditions of 180° C. and 10 minutes is 100.5 ?g/g or less in n-tetradecane. In the case where the plastic film held by the holding frame is subjected to a process of manufacturing an electronic part (for example, a solar battery), even when a process accompanying generation of heat during the manufacturing process (for example, a film forming process such as plasma CVD) is performed on the plastic film, a release amount of unnecessary gas released from the adhesive tape due to the influence of the heat is suppressed, so that deterioration in the performance of the electronic part caused by the unnecessary gas is suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignees: TDK Corporation, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Morooka, Hideaki Ninomiya, Junichi Shimamura, Kazuo Nishi
  • Patent number: 7841078
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and computer program storage product for optimizing land grid array site geometry on an electronic assembly mounting. A first member including at least one convex region is aligned with a first portion of an electronic assembly mounting. A second member is aligned with a second portion of the electronic assembly mounting. The second portion includes at least one concave region corresponding to the convex region of the first portion. The second member includes a dome-shaped region having a predefined geometry. Heat is applied to at least one of the electronic assembly mounting, the first member, and the second member. Pressure is applied to at least one of the first member and the second member to reshape the convex region into a substantially flat surface. Applying pressure also reshapes the concave region into a geometry corresponding to the predefined geometry of the dome-shaped region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Lam, Wai Mon Ma, Arch F. Nuttall
  • Patent number: 7836587
    Abstract: An electrical element can be attached and electrically connected to a substrate by a conductive adhesive material. The conductive adhesive material can electrically connect the electrical element to a terminal or other electrical conductor on the substrate. The conductive adhesive material can be cured by directing a flow of heated gas onto the material or by heating the material through a support structure on which the substrate is located. A non-conductive adhesive material can attach the electrical element to the substrate with a greater adhesive strength than the conductive adhesive. The non-conductive adhesive material can also be cured by directing a flow of heated gas onto the material or by heating the material through the support structure on which the substrate is located. The non-conductive adhesive material can cover the conductive adhesive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: FormFactor, Inc.
    Inventor: Tae Ma Kim
  • Patent number: 7832079
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum interrupter chamber and a method for producing the same according to the preambles of patent claims 1 and 3. In order here to improve a vacuum interrupter chamber of this type and a method for producing the same and the subsequent casting to the extent that the advantages described above are utilized but the disadvantages described are avoided, it is proposed according to the invention that, in preparation for later casting, the vacuum interrupter chamber (1) is provided on the outer surface with a protective sheath (2) consisting of an elastic or elastomeric or plastomeric material, which is applied to the surface of the vacuum interrupter chamber without further expanding mechanical aids by heat shrinkage alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: ABB Technology AG
    Inventors: Oliver Claus, Hartmut Mildes, Till Rümenapp