Patents by Inventor Steven E. Garcia

Steven E. Garcia 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).

  • Publication number: 20020108242
    Abstract: Twist pins having bulges are fabricated from helically coiled stranded wire. Wire is advanced from a source such as a spool to create slack wire configuration, and wire is then advanced from the slack wire configuration to a position where each bulge is formed. Each bulge is formed by gripping the wire in two spaced apart locations and rotating the wire in an anti-helical direction in a single continuous relative revolution to untwist the strands and form the bulge. The wire is thereafter advanced to the position of the next bulge or the position where the wire will be severed to release the fabricated twist pin. The severed fabricated twist pin is conveyed through a flow of gas in a delivery tube into a receptacle of a cassette where the twist pin is stored until used. The cassette is automatically moved to position an occupied receptacle to receive each newly fabricated twist pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Steven E. Garcia, Randall J. Boudreaux, James A. Harden, David A. Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20020108934
    Abstract: A segment of wire from which an electrical connector has been fabricated is conveyed from a point where the electrical connector wire segment is severed from a length of remaining wire into a receptacle within which the electrical connector wire segment is stored until use. A reduced pressure is applied by a venturi assembly to the wire segment, and a gas flow conveys the wire segment to the receptacle. A cassette defines the receptacles, and the cassette is repeatedly positioned to each newly fabricated wire segment in a different receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2001
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Steven E. Garcia, James A. Harden, David A. Hofmann
  • Patent number: 6169663
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for electrically and mechanically interconnecting electronic circuit assemblies or electronic modules. An integrated circuit (300) includes a plurality of leads (302) extending from a surface (305), each of the leads (302) having a seating portion (403) and a stem portion (402). A printed circuit board (400) includes a plurality of plated through holes (401) therein corresponding to the plurality of leads (302) extending from the integrated circuit (300). The steps of the method include positioning the printed circuit board (400) so that a lower surface (404) of the printed circuit board (400) rests on the seating portion (403) of the leads (302) of the integrated circuit (300), and so that the stem portion (302) of each of the leads are positioned within the corresponding plated through holes (401) in the printed circuit board (400).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Medallion Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Steven E. Garcia
  • Patent number: 5509827
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes a coaxial cable to microstrip flexible circuit connector and a mating microstrip flex circuit to electronic circuit connector. The coaxial cable to microstrip flex circuit connector comprises a portion which is mechanically attached to the coaxial cable and a portion which is mechanically attached to the microstrip flex circuit. The coaxial cable attachment portion includes a first electrical connector electrically connected to the center conductor and a second electrical connector electrically connected to the shielding conductor of each coaxial cable. The microstrip flex circuit attachment portion includes a third electrical connector electrically connected to each trace and a fourth connector electrically connected to the ground plane conductor. The flex circuit to electrical circuit connector comprises a plurality of unsupported extensions of a trace or the ground plane conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: Cray Computer Corporation
    Inventors: Jon M. Huppenthal, Steven E. Garcia, James A. Harden, Jr., Catherine A. Herzog
  • Patent number: 5473816
    Abstract: Male and female portions of a multi-pin connector (MPC) are separated and connected using a tool or a method in which the two MPC portions are securely retained in lateral and longitudinal alignment throughout separation and connection, to alleviate the difficulties of breaking, bending, mis-aligning and twisting pins of the male MPC portion relative to sockets of the female MPC portion, which may easily occur during separation and connection. The pins and the sockets in lateral and longitudinal alignment while the MPC portions are moved toward and away from one another. The risk of lead-wire breakage due to fatigue from grasping the lead wires during connection and separation is also avoided, because the only contact is with the body portions, not the lead wires, of even small MPCs. A tool includes a receptacle adapted for receiving the two portions of the MPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignee: Cray Computer Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Harden, Jr., Steven E. Garcia
  • Patent number: RE37368
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes a coaxial cable to microstrip flexible circuit connector and a mating microstrip flex circuit to electronic circuit connector. The coaxial cable to microstrip flex circuit connector comprises a portion which is mechanically attached to the coaxial cable and a portion which is mechanically attached to the microstrip flex circuit. The coaxial cable attachment portion includes a first electrical connector electrically connected to the center conductor and a second electrical connector electrically connected to the shielding conductor of each coaxial cable. The microstrip flex circuit attachment portion includes a third electrical connector electrically connected to each trace and a fourth connector electrically connected to the ground plane conductor. The flex circuit to electrical circuit connector comprises a plurality of unsupported extensions of a trace or the ground plane conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Medallion Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jon M. Huppenthal, Steven E. Garcia
  • Patent number: RE36845
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes a coaxial cable to microstrip flexible circuit connector and a mating microstrip flex circuit to electronic circuit connector. The coaxial cable to microstrip flex circuit connector comprises a portion which is mechanically attached to the coaxial cable and a portion which is mechanically attached to the microstrip flex circuit. The coaxial cable attachment portion includes a first electrical connector electrically connected to the center conductor and a second electrical connector electrically connected to the shielding conductor of each coaxial cable. The microstrip flex circuit attachment portion includes a third electrical connector electrically connected to each trace and a fourth connector electrically connected to the ground plane conductor. The flex circuit to electrical circuit connector comprises a plurality of unsupported extensions of a trace or the ground plane conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Medallion Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jon M. Huppenthal, Steven E. Garcia, James A. Harden, Jr., Catherine A. Herzog