Patents Examined by D. Ostrowski
  • Patent number: 5083194
    Abstract: An air-jet impingement cooling method combined with a miniature pin-fin heat sink provides equivalent fluid flow to each IC package in a module and achieves a high heat transfer rate per volume. The packaging design is comparable to high-density packaging systems utilizing low-temperature coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1992
    Assignee: Cray Research, Inc.
    Inventor: Bradley W. Bartilson
  • Patent number: 5065226
    Abstract: A laser diode module includes a rectangular box-shaped metal casing having a bottom (B), an even number of guide pins (1-14) being led through the bottom (B) in a standardized DIL order. In addition to the laser diode itself (LD) the laser diode module further includes a metal base carrier (BC) on which the laser diode (LD), a photo diode (PD) and a support (S) for the glass fiber (F) are installed. The laser diode module further includes a guide pin (9) which is inserted in the bottom (B) by means of a feedthrough insulator for electrically connecting the laser diode module to an external transmission line (MT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corp.
    Inventors: Johannes T. M. Kluitmans, Hindrik Tjassens, Hendrikus G. Kock
  • Patent number: 5053856
    Abstract: An arrangement for packaging thin planar arrays of circuit components including a plurality of essentially thin parallel layers in which the layers lie closely adjacent one another, one or more of the layers including a substrate of insulating material having circuit board means imbedded therein, the improvement including heat-conducting means positioned against at least one of the layers for removing heat from the arrangement, the heat-conducting means having an interior channel for transferring a fluid to accomplish the heat removal, and means providing electrical conduits through the heat-conducting means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    Inventor: Howard L. Davidson
  • Patent number: 5038198
    Abstract: A modular semiconductor power device has a conductive member consisting of an alumina plate to which copper layers are soldered on opposite sides. A chip is soldered to one of these layers and the other of these layers is soldered in turn to a metal heat sink. The chip is connected to respective copper strips which, in turn, are soldered to thermal strips originally forming part of a frame so that, after the device is encapsulated in a synthetic resin, the connecting members of the frame can be cut away to leave free ends of the latter strips exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.p.A.
    Inventors: Antonio Perniciaro Spatrisano, Luciano Gandolfi, Carlo Minotti, Natale Di Cristina
  • Patent number: 5006923
    Abstract: A substrate is formed from a core substrate of flexible, low-temperature co-fireable ceramic tape and an outer substrate of ceramic tape having apertures for receiving integrated circuits (ICs) therein. The substrate is heated to form a rigid body which then mounts the ICs. The rigid body and ICs are covered or at least partially covered with an insulating glass and heated to a temperature that fuses the glass but does not harm to ICs. The resulting structure hermetically seals the ICs in a single substrate that is insensitive to acceleration forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Litton Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith O. Warren
  • Patent number: 5005069
    Abstract: A rectifier (60) is formedf by soldering a diode chip (66) in a cavity (64) in a metal base (62) having a metal sidewall (69), soldering the head (72) of an axial lead (70) to the chip (66), and filling the cavity (64) with an encapsulation (88). An outward leaning partition (80) is provided in the cavity (64) around and at about the same elevation as the chip (66). The encapsulation (88) covers the lead head (72) and the partition (80), and fills the space between the partition (80) and the base sidewall (69). This locks all the parts together, giving improved reliability and lead stiffnes at low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1991
    Assignee: Motorola Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Wasmer, Peter J. Gillespie, James G. Lippmann, Hiep M. Le
  • Patent number: 4998159
    Abstract: The present invention provides a ceramic laminated circuit substrate which is less in fluctuation of degree of shrinkage at firing and is less in voids and is suitable for formation of functional modules. This substrate comprises a conductor layer and a plurality of ceramic insulating layers wherein said ceramic insulating layers include at least one fiber-containing composite ceramic insulating layer. The present invention further provides a method for making this substrate which comprises preparing fiber-containing composite green sheets by adding to a green sheet raw material at least one of whiskers, glass filaments and chopped strands as fibers, laminating these fiber-containing composite green sheets in such direction that their casting directions are different together with green sheets containing no fibers to form a laminate and firing this laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroichi Shinohara, Hideo Suzuki, Satoru Ogihara, Hideo Arakawa
  • Patent number: 4994902
    Abstract: An electronic system having a first and a second semiconductor device acting as a microprocessor and a coprocessor, respectively, disposed linearly on a mounting board. The external pins common to both the first and the second semiconductor device are connected by wiring means installed linearly on the mounting board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Microcomputer Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Okahashi, Masao Naito, Atsushi Hasegawa, Norio Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 4991000
    Abstract: A high density IC layout is achieved by providing conductive feedthroughs through an IC chip directly to input/output locations within the circuitry, inward from the periphery of the chip or alternately at the periphery of the chip. The chip can thus be mounted to a substrate face up, allowing for visual inspection and simplified mounting techniques. To provide a high density 3-D stack, substrates with chips mounted thereon are stacked together, with substrate feedthroughs connecting to selected chip feedthrough via the substrate routing, and successive layers electrically connected by contact springs. Chips mounted on a single substrate can also be used in a 2-D configuration, without substrate feedthroughs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Inventors: Robert L. Bone, W. E. Armstrong
  • Patent number: 4980753
    Abstract: Disclosed is a low-cost high-performance semiconductor chip package enabling a direct chip to printed circuit board connection. The package comprises a semiconductor chip having a front surface and a back surface. The front surface comprises pads for input and output of signals to and from the chip. The package further comprises a leadframe having power, ground, and signal conductive elements having first and second end portions for transmitting input and output signals to the pads. The package also comprises a bonding system for selectively connecting the first end portions of the conductive elements to the pads and a protective system for providing sealed and environmental protection around the semiconductor chip and portions of the leadframe while permitting other portions of the leadframe to protrude from the protective means to provide connection with other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Dunaway, Richard K. Spielberger, Lori A. Dicks