Patents by Inventor Geoffrey R. Mariner

Geoffrey R. Mariner 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: 5099393
    Abstract: An electronic package including a first circuitized substrate (e.g., printed circuit board) and a flexible circuitized substrate wherein the flexible substrate is precisely aligned in removable manner relative to the first substrate. This is accomplished utilizing a retention member and associated frame member, the flexible circuitized substrate being precisely aligned and secured to the frame member. Elastomeric pressure exertion members are utilized to exert pressure against each of a plurality of individual circuitized sections of the flexible circuit member to thus effect engagement between the flexible substrate's contacts and respective conductors which constitute part of the circuit on the first substrate. Moveable clamp members may also be used to engage extending posts of the retention member, said clamp members also possibly acting against a stiffener member located on the first substrate's opposite surface from the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James R. Bentlage, David E. Engle, Geoffrey R. Mariner, John J. Squires, John H. Williams