Patents by Inventor Kenneth Allen Honer

Kenneth Allen Honer 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).

  • Impact sensing switch
    Publication number: 20080217144
    Abstract: An impact switch includes a housing having a wall including at least two electrically conductive contact elements spaced apart from one another. The switch includes an inertial body having a conductive surface disposed in a tapered aperture and electrically connecting the contact elements to one another in a switch closed condition. An impact switch for rapidly firing an explosive device is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: Tessera, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Allen Honer, Rolfe Tyson Gustus, Ilyas Mohammed
  • Alignment and cutting of microelectronic substrates
    Publication number: 20080156518
    Abstract: A substrate including plural microelectronic device carriers has metallic alignment elements. The alignment elements desirably are disposed in a predetermined positional relationship to terminals on the carriers. The alignment elements are engaged with a carrier frame and a cutting device is aligned with the carrier frame. The cutting device cuts the carriers so that borders of the carriers are in a precise relationship with the terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Applicant: Tessera, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Allen Honer, Christopher Paul Wade, Seiichi Tobe, Chung-Chuan Tseng, Ellis Chau, Kyong-Mo Bang
  • Collective and synergistic MRAM shields
    Publication number: 20080122047
    Abstract: Various structures chip packages are disclosed including a magnetoresistive random access memory (“MRAM”) device and a magnetic shield structure. The magnetic shield structure may be made from material having either ferromagnetic or diamagnetic material and may be shaped and incorporated into the chip package to divert stray magnetic fields away from the MRAM device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: Tessera, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Allen Honer, Guilian Gao, William Walter Carlson, Michael Warner
  • Rigid flex interconnect via
    Patent number: 7356923
    Abstract: A rigid-flexible printed wire assembly which employs a blind via for interconnection is disclosed. Preferably, the assembly includes a rigid section having a through hole formed therethrough and a flexible section having an inner metal layer. Laser ablation is preferably utilized to form a blind via in the flexible section, while utilizing the through hole of the rigid section as a guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Tessera, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth Allen Honer