Patents by Inventor Kenneth W. Dickey

Kenneth W. Dickey 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).

  • Circuit card assembly footprint providing reworkable interconnection paths for use with a surface mount device
    Patent number: 5877942
    Abstract: A circuit card assembly is provided for use in testing a system wherein the circuit card assembly employs a surface mount device such as a field programmable gate array. The circuit card assembly includes severable traces on a bottom surface of the assembly connecting pairs of near and far vias. The severable traces and the pairs of near and far vias allow the circuit card assembly to be selectively re-worked to accommodate changes to the design of the surface mount device. Hence, a new circuit card assembly need not be designed and fabricated each time the design or programming of the surface mount device is changed. The circuit card assembly includes a network of interconnection paths wherein each path to or from a pin terminal area of the circuit card assembly passes along at least one severable trace between at least one pair of near and far vias along the bottom surface of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Luis S. Kida, Perry W. Crutchfield, Kenneth W. Dickey, Curtis D. Musfeldt, Robert J. G. Vachon, Wayne G. Wilson