Patents by Inventor Thomas S. Spinelli

Thomas S. Spinelli 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: 4729739
    Abstract: A connector for mounting and electrically connecting a chip carrier unit in an electrical circuit has a plurality of electrical contacts secured in openings in the bottom of an electrically insulating body to permit cantilever spring deflection of the contacts in accommodating a chip carrier unit within the connector between the contacts. The contacts comprise wire members of round cross section each having an opposite end bent to be slidable along a narrow line of engagement with an inclined ramp surface on an adjacent side wall of the connector body. Each contact has a bowed portion intermediate the contact ends which is bowed away from the adjacent ramp surface to slidably engage terminals on the chip carrier unit as the unit is inserted into the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: James A. Coffee, Thomas S. Spinelli, Harold M. Yevak, Jr., Debra J. Provazza, Peter A. Foley
  • Patent number: 4706812
    Abstract: A package for shipping and dispensing articles such as integrated circuit mounting sockets or the like comprises an extruded, open-ended plastic tube having a reentrant rib formed along one tube side so that the interior tube chamber accommodates the bifurcated lateral outlines of such i.c. sockets in side-by-side serial relation to each other inside the tube with the socket bodies resting on the rib and with the socket terminals suspended and protected on either side of the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1987
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas S. Spinelli, Edward J. Deras
  • Patent number: 4546406
    Abstract: An electronic circuit interconnection system provides high density mounting of ceramic chip-carrier integrated circuit devices or other beam-lead, dual-in-line (DIP), tape-automated-bonded (TAB), flip-chip, or direct-mounted i.c. devices with wire-bonded interconnects or the like on an economical, dimensionally-stable, interconnection substrate which has high heat dissipating properties. The substrate has glass components which are fused onto etched metal patterns and which are proportioned relative to the metal patterns so that the heat-expansion properties of the substrate correspond to those of the i.c. devices to maintain bond integrity between the i.c. leads and circuit paths on the substrate and so that the substrate has sufficient heat-dissipating properties to permit the high density i.c. mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1985
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas S. Spinelli, William G. Manns, Donald F. Weirauch
  • Patent number: 4472762
    Abstract: An electronic circuit interconnection system provides high density mounting on ceramic chip-carrier integrated circuit devices or other beam-lead, dual-in-line (DIP), tape-automated-bonded (TAB), flip-chip, or direct-mounted i.c. devices with wire-bonded interconnects or the like on an economical, dimensionally-stable, interconnection substrate which has high heat dissipating properties. The substrate has glass components which are fused onto etched metal patterns and which are proportioned relative to the metal patterns so that the heat-expansion properties of the substrate correspond to those of the i.c. devices to maintain bond integrity between the i.c. leads and circuit paths on the substrate and so that the substrate has sufficient heat-dissipating properties to permit the high density i.c. mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: September 18, 1984
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas S. Spinelli, William G. Manns, Donald F. Weirauch
  • Patent number: 4385202
    Abstract: An electronic circuit interconnection system permitting high density mounting of ceramic chip-carrier integrated circuit devices or other beam-lead, dual-in-line (DIP), tape-automated-bonded (TAB), flip-chip, or direct-mounted i.c. devices with wire-bonded interconnects or the like has economical, dimensionally-stable, interconnection substrate which has high heat dissipating properties. The substrate has glass components which are fused onto etched metal patterns and which are proportioned relative to the metal patterns so that the heat-expansion properties of the substrate correspond to those of the i.c. devices to maintain bond integrity between the i.c. leads and circuit paths on the substrate and so that the substrate has sufficient heat-dissipating properties to permit the high density i.c. mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas S. Spinelli, William G. Manns, Donald F. Weirauch