Patents by Inventor Douglas Oliver Powell

Douglas Oliver Powell 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: 9659131
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a laminate substrate includes top layers, bottom layers, and a core layer. The top layers are positioned between the core layer and a top surface metallurgy (TSM) layer and include at least one top conductive layer. The bottom layers are positioned between the core layer and a bottom surface metallurgy (BSM) layer and include at least one bottom conductive layer includes a material void pattern that is based upon the top conductive layer and reduces warpage of the laminate substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Edmund Blackshear, Anson Jay Call, Vijayeshwar Das Khanna, Douglas Oliver Powell, David John Russell
  • Publication number: 20150317423
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a laminate substrate includes top layers, bottom layers, and a core layer. The top layers are positioned between the core layer and a top surface metallurgy (TSM) layer and include at least one top conductive layer. The bottom layers are positioned between the core layer and a bottom surface metallurgy (BSM) layer and include at least one bottom conductive layer includes a material void pattern that is based upon the top conductive layer and reduces warpage of the laminate substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Edmund Blackshear, Anson Jay Call, Vijayeshwar Das Khanna, Douglas Oliver Powell, David John Russell
  • Patent number: 9105535
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a laminate substrate includes top layers, bottom layers, and a core layer. The top layers are positioned between the core layer and a top surface metallurgy (TSM) layer and include at least one top conductive layer. The bottom layers are positioned between the core layer and a bottom surface metallurgy (BSM) layer and include at least one bottom conductive layer that includes a material void pattern that is based upon the top conductive layer and reduces warpage of the laminate substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Blackshear, Anson Jay Call, Vijayeshwar Das Khanna, Douglas Oliver Powell, David John Russell
  • Publication number: 20130334711
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a laminate substrate includes top layers, bottom layers, and a core layer. The top layers are positioned between the core layer and a top surface metallurgy (TSM) layer and include at least one top conductive layer. The bottom layers are positioned between the core layer and a bottom surface metallurgy (BSM) layer and include at least one bottom conductive layer includes a material void pattern that is based upon the top conductive layer and reduces warpage of the laminate substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Edmund Blackshear, Anson Jay Call, Vijayeshwar Das Khanna, Douglas Oliver Powell, David John Russell
  • Patent number: 5672260
    Abstract: Small, closely spaced deposits of solder materials may be formed with high volumetric accuracy and uniformity of shape by depositing a layer of conductive material over surfaces of a dielectric layer having apertures or recesses (e.g. blind apertures) and conductors and/or pads exposed by those apertures or recesses, masking regions of the conductive material with a further patterned dielectric layer, electroplating solder materials onto regions of the conductive material exposed by the mask, removing the mask and portions of the conductive material by selective etching and reflowing solder away from at least a portion of the surfaces of the apertured dielectric layer. Uniformity of electroplating within blind apertures is enhanced by a combination of fluid jet sparging and cathode agitation. Excess conductor material in the resulting solder deposit can be avoided by replacing conductor material with a constituent component of a solder material in an immersion bath prior to electroplating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Francis Carey, Kenneth Michael Fallon, Voya Rista Markovich, Douglas Oliver Powell, Gary Paul Vlasak, Richard Stuart Zarr
  • Patent number: 5656139
    Abstract: Small, closely spaced deposits of solder materials may be formed with high volumetric accuracy and uniformity of shape by depositing a layer of conductive material over surfaces of a dielectric layer having apertures or recesses (e.g. blind apertures) and conductors and/or pads exposed by those apertures or recesses, masking regions of the conductive material with a further patterned dielectric layer, electroplating solder materials onto regions of the conductive material exposed by the mask, removing the mask and portions of the conductive material by selective etching and reflowing solder away from at least a portion of the surfaces of the apertured dielectric layer. Uniformity of electroplating within blind apertures is enhanced by a combination of fluid jet sparging and cathode agitation. Excess conductor material in the resulting solder deposit can be avoided by replacing conductor material with a constituent component of a solder material in an immersion bath prior to electroplating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Francis Carey, Kenneth Michael Fallon, Voya Rista Markovich, Douglas Oliver Powell, Gary Paul Vlasak, Richard Stuart Zarr