Patents by Inventor Larry Stuckey
Larry Stuckey 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).
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Publication number: 20240058972Abstract: Disclosed are a pick tip apparatus method interchanging pick tip assemblies within the same. The pick tip apparatus includes a housing having a housing channel. The apparatus further includes a fitting connected to the housing channel. The fitting is configured to accept an external vacuum source for applying a vacuum to the housing channel. The apparatus further includes a magnet and a pick tip assembly. The pick tip assembly is releasably held within the housing channel magnetically by the magnet. The pick tip assembly includes a vacuum cup and a pick tip body. The pick tip body has a pick tip body channel in communication with the housing channel and configured to apply the vacuum from the housing channel to the vacuum cup.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Larry Stuckey, John Murach, John Lewis, Kent Blumenshine, Jason Chalfant, Colin Scholefield
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Patent number: 11833670Abstract: Disclosed are a pick tip apparatus method interchanging pick tip assemblies within the same. The pick tip apparatus includes a housing having a housing channel. The apparatus further includes a fitting connected to the housing channel. The fitting is configured to accept an external vacuum source for applying a vacuum to the housing channel. The apparatus further includes a magnet and a pick tip assembly. The pick tip assembly is releasably held within the housing channel magnetically by the magnet. The pick tip assembly includes a vacuum cup and a pick tip body. The pick tip body has a pick tip body channel in communication with the housing channel and configured to apply the vacuum from the housing channel to the vacuum cup.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: BOSTON SEMI EQUIPMENT LLCInventors: Larry Stuckey, John Murach, John Lewis, Kent Blumenshine, Jason Chalfant, Colin Scholefield
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Patent number: 11474147Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a kit-less pick and place handler which conducts thermal testing of at least one device. An exemplary handler includes a thermal soak plate, a first prime mover, a second prime mover, a test site actuator, and a test contactor. The thermal soak plate can receive devices and maintain an accurate position of the devices using a friction between the thermal soak plate and the device. The test contactor can electrically contact the device. The first prime mover can place the device on the thermal soak plate. The second prime mover can carry the device to the test contactor, hold the device during thermal testing, and move the device from the test contactor. The test site actuator can exert force on the second prime mover during thermal testing.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Boston Semi Equipment LLCInventors: Larry Stuckey, Igor Shekhtman, John Lewis, Kent Blumenshine, Colin Scholefield
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Patent number: 11442101Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a kit-less pick and place handler which conducts thermal testing of at least one device. An exemplary handler includes a thermal soak plate, a first prime mover, a second prime mover, a test site actuator, and a test contactor. The thermal soak plate can receive devices and maintain an accurate position of the devices using a friction between the thermal soak plate and the device. The test contactor can electrically contact the device. The first prime mover can place the device on the thermal soak plate. The second prime mover can carry the device to the test contactor, hold the device during thermal testing, and move the device from the test contactor. The test site actuator can exert force on the second prime mover during thermal testing.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Boston Semi Equipment LLCInventors: Larry Stuckey, Igor Shekhtman, John Lewis, Kent Blumenshine, Colin Scholefield
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Publication number: 20220072719Abstract: Disclosed are a pick tip apparatus method interchanging pick tip assemblies within the same. The pick tip apparatus includes a housing having a housing channel. The apparatus further includes a fitting connected to the housing channel. The fitting is configured to accept an external vacuum source for applying a vacuum to the housing channel. The apparatus further includes a magnet and a pick tip assembly. The pick tip assembly is releasably held within the housing channel magnetically by the magnet. The pick tip assembly includes a vacuum cup and a pick tip body. The pick tip body has a pick tip body channel in communication with the housing channel and configured to apply the vacuum from the housing channel to the vacuum cup.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Larry Stuckey, John Murach, John Lewis, Kent Blumenshine, Jason Chalfant, Colin Scholefield
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Publication number: 20200341054Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a kit-less pick and place handler which conducts thermal testing of at least one device. An exemplary handler includes a thermal soak plate, a first prime mover, a second prime mover, a test site actuator, and a test contactor. The thermal soak plate can receive devices and maintain an accurate position of the devices using a friction between the thermal soak plate and the device. The test contactor can electrically contact the device. The first prime mover can place the device on the thermal soak plate. The second prime mover can carry the device to the test contactor, hold the device during thermal testing, and move the device from the test contactor. The test site actuator can exert force on the second prime mover during thermal testing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Larry Stuckey, Igor Shekhtman, John Lewis, Kent Blumenshine, Colin Scholefield
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Publication number: 20180218926Abstract: A thermal control head for a semiconductor device handler includes: a heater configured to heat a semiconductor device; a cold manifold; and a cooling mass that is movable between: a first position at which a first surface of the cooling mass contacts a surface of the cold manifold, and a second position at which the first surface of the cooling mass is separated from the cold manifold, and a second surface of the cooling mass contacts a surface of the heater.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Delta Design, Inc.Inventors: Larry Stuckey, Jerry Ihor Tustaniwskyj, Samer Kabbani
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Publication number: 20170285102Abstract: A vision alignment system for a test handler system includes a transfer mechanism that transfers a device from an input side to a test side, a contactor array positioned at the test side, and a pick-and-place device that moves the device from the transfer mechanism to the contactor array. An engagement mechanism on the pick-and-place device engages with alignment devices on the transfer mechanism and contactor array. To avoid positioning the vision alignment system in the test side, a first vision mechanism is positioned away from the test socket and determines the position of the device in a common local coordinate system, a second vision mechanism is positioned at an output side and determines a position of the contactor array in the local coordinate system, and the correction mechanism corrects a position of the device based on an offset between the positions in the coordinate system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: Delta Design, Inc.Inventors: Kexiang Ken DING, Larry STUCKEY, James FRANDSEN, Samer KABBANI, Michael Anthony LAVER
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Patent number: 8896335Abstract: An apparatus controls a temperature of a device by circulating a fluid through a heat sink in thermal contact with the device. The apparatus includes an adjustable cold input, which inputs a cold portion of the fluid having a first temperature, and an adjustable hot input, which inputs a hot portion of the fluid having a second temperature higher than the first temperature. The apparatus further includes a chamber, connected to the cold input and hot input, in which the cold and hot portions of the fluid mix in a combined fluid portion that impinges on the heat sink. The combined fluid portion has a combined temperature that directly affects a temperature of the heat sink. The cold input and hot input are adjusted to dynamically control the combined temperature, enabling the heat sink temperature to compensate for changes in the device temperature, substantially maintaining a set point temperature of the device.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2007Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventors: Larry Stuckey, Anastasios Golnas, Robert Edward Aldaz, David Yu
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Patent number: 8757250Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a temperature of a device. The apparatus includes a body (500) having a plurality of chambers (630) spaced substantially symmetrically about an axis of the body (500), wherein each of the plurality of chambers (630) comprises an upper diaphragm (635) and a lower diaphragm (640). The apparatus also includes a heat transfer element (515) attached to the body (500) via the plurality of chambers (630) such that the plurality of chambers (630) is in fluid communication with the heat transfer element (515).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Larry Stuckey
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Publication number: 20100224352Abstract: An apparatus controls a temperature of a device by circulating a fluid through a heat sink in thermal contact with the device. The apparatus includes an adjustable cold input, which inputs a cold portion of the fluid having a first temperature, and an adjustable hot input, which inputs a hot portion of the fluid having a second temperature higher than the first temperature. The apparatus further includes a chamber, connected to the cold input and hot input, in which the cold and hot portions of the fluid mix in a combined fluid portion that impinges on the heat sink. The combined fluid portion has a combined temperature that directly affects a temperature of the heat sink. The cold input and hot input are adjusted to dynamically control the combined temperature, enabling the heat sink temperature to compensate for changes in the device temperature, substantially maintaining a set point temperature of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATIONInventors: Larry Stuckey, Anastasios Golnas, Robert Edward Aldaz, David Yu
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Publication number: 20100163217Abstract: An apparatus for controlling a temperature of a device. The apparatus includes a body (500) having a plurality of chambers (630) spaced substantially symmetrically about an axis of the body (500), wherein each of the plurality of chambers (630) comprises an upper diaphragm (635) and a lower diaphragm (640). The apparatus also includes a heat transfer element (515) attached to the body (500) via the plurality of chambers (630) such that the plurality of chambers (630) is in fluid communication with the heat transfer element (515).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2007Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: ADVANTEST CORPORATIONInventor: Larry Stuckey
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Patent number: 7700891Abstract: A method for sorting devices in automated handling equipment, including placing a plurality of input trays containing a plurality of devices and a plurality of empty trays into a handler; sorting the plurality of devices in the plurality of input trays into the plurality of empty trays according to a category of each of the plurality of devices, dynamically assigning categories to each of the plurality of empty trays for each category of the plurality of devices, dynamically assigning categories to the plurality of input trays and placing the sorted plurality of devices into the plurality of input trays, removing the empty trays housing the plurality of sorted devices from the handler and determining whether the sorting is completed.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Delta Design, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth B. Uekert, Samer Kabbani, Larry Stuckey
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Publication number: 20070185676Abstract: A vision alignment system for aligning a testing device includes an alignment camera positioned above an alignment portion of the vision alignment system. A lighting system for emitting light onto the device is located in proximity to the alignment camera. A calibration target is used to define a calibration target coordinate system. Three actuators are positioned in a testing portion of the vision alignment system, for correcting an offset between the calibration target and the testing device. A pick and place handler transports the calibration target and the testing device between the testing portion and the alignment portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2006Publication date: August 9, 2007Inventors: Kexiang Ding, Steve Ade, Larry Stuckey
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Publication number: 20070007946Abstract: A method for sorting devices in automated handling equipment, including placing a plurality of input trays containing a plurality of devices and a plurality of empty trays into a handler; sorting the plurality of devices in the plurality of input trays into the plurality of empty trays according to a category of each of the plurality of devices, dynamically assigning categories to each of the plurality of empty trays for each category of the plurality of devices, dynamically assigning categories to the plurality of input trays and placing the sorted plurality of devices into the plurality of input trays, removing the empty trays housing the plurality of sorted devices from the handler and determining whether the sorting is completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: January 11, 2007Inventors: Kenneth Uekert, Samer Kabbani, Larry Stuckey
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Publication number: 20050180844Abstract: An apparatus and method for handling devices adapted to be assigned to one of a plurality of categories are disclosed. The apparatus includes an elevator adapted to move a stack of trays along a vertical path, a locking mechanism adapted to selectively engage a tray in the stack of trays and to support the engaged tray and additional trays positioned above the engaged tray, and a tray load arm positioned at a fixed vertical position and having a support mechanism for supporting one or more trays, the tray load arm being adapted to move horizontally into and out of the vertical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2004Publication date: August 18, 2005Inventors: Kenneth Uekert, Samer Kabbani, Larry Stuckey