International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Other

Globalfoundries Inc.

Brian Samuel Beaman

Keith E Fogel

Da-Yuan Shih

Paul Alfred Lauro

Gareth Geoffrey Hougham

Paul William Coteus

Evan G Colgan

Stefano Sergio Oggioni

Enrique Vargas

Maurice Heathcote Norcott

George Frederick Walker

Daniel Peter Morris

Theron Lee Lewis

Yun-Hsin Liao

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit

Eric Vance Kline

Joseph Paul Kuczynski

Arvind Kumar Sinha

Amanda Elisa Ennis Mikhail

Fuad Elias Doany

Mark Kenneth Hoffmeyer

Yuet-Ying Yu

Daniel Mark Dreps

William Louis Brodsky

Eugene John O'Sullivan

Wiren Dale Becker

Sungjun Chun

Alphonso Philip Lanzetta

Jose A Hejase

William J Tkazyik

Thomas J Dudek

James L Hedrick

Voya Rista Markovich

Frank Robert Libsch

Jane M Shaw

James A Busby

Leathen Shi

Ho-Ming Tong

Sarah K Czaplewski-Campbell

Claudius Feger

Benson Chan

Shawn Anthony Hall

Charles Hampton Perry

Daniel Paul Kelaher

John Lee Colbert

Jason R Eagle

John J Ritsko

Rudolf Adriaan Haring

Scott J Hadderman

Jungihl Kim

Joseph Curtis Diepenbrock

James L Hedrick, Jr

George Liang-Tai Chiu

Juan Ayala-Esquilin

Richard D Wheeler

Amanda E E Mikhail

Kathleen Conlon Hinge

Kevin Perveiler

Wolfgang Mayr

Wen-Hsin Chen

John S Corbin

Wen Hsin Chen

Da-Juan Shih

Da-Yaun Shih

Paul Alfred Apartment D Lauro

Keith Edward Fogel

Disclosed herein is a method for producing a land grid array (LGA) socket connector assembly and the resultant assembly. The method comprises providing a carrier having a first carrier thickness with an array of vias, each having a first diameter, providing pockets around top surfaces of the vias, each having a second diameter and creating a portion of the pockets having a second carrier thickness that is less than the first carrier thickness, providing socket contact springs, each comprising a hole support structure that supports the socket contact spring within the via, and a contact beam configured to contact a conductor of an integrated circuit to be placed within the socket connector assembly, wherein a portion of carrier having a first carrier thickness is configured to prevent the contact beam from inelastically deforming when bent under load. Alternately, a contact feature may be used to prevent the inelastic deformation.

Standoff and support structures for reliable land grid array and hybrid land grid array interconnects

Embodiments include methods, systems, and computer program products method for aerial vehicle in-flight servicing. The computer-implemented method includes monitoring, using a processor, an aerial vehicle status of a delivery aerial vehicle. The processor compares the aerial vehicle status of the aerial vehicle to a delivery schedule associated with the delivery aerial vehicle. The processor further assigns a service aerial vehicle to provide service in response to the aerial vehicle status conflicting with the delivery schedule associated with the delivery aerial vehicle. The method further couples the delivery aerial vehicle to the service aerial vehicle while the delivery aerial vehicle and service aerial vehicle are in-flight. The method further provides power source assistance or aerial vehicle component assistance to the delivery aerial vehicle by the service aerial vehicle while the delivery aerial vehicle and service aerial vehicle are in-flight.

In-flight servicing of an aerial vehicle

An Off The Module (OTM) cable assembly includes a back shell assembly and a guide block, where the guide block is disposed on a top surface of a electronic package. The back shell assembly is disposed inside a cavity of the guide block, where the back shell assembly includes a plurality of cable subassemblies and a back shell holder. Each cable subassembly from the plurality of cable subassemblies includes a compression connector portion and a cable portion, where the cable portion is mechanically coupled and electrically coupled to the compression connector portion. A contact wire and a contact spring of each cable subassembly is compressed against a respective plated contact pad on the top surface of the electronic package, where the compressed contact wire and the compressed contact spring of each cable subassembly is electrical coupled to the electronic package via the respective plated contact pad.

Off the module cable assembly

An interposer comprises a metal-plated via that spans the depth of a printed circuit board. The interposer also comprises a metal plug inserted into a first end of the metal-plated via. The metal plug is attached to the metal-plated via. The metal plug may take the form of a solid plug or a sintered via plug. The interposer also comprises a solder ball soldered to the metal plug.

Efficient placement of grid array components

Aspects include a system for transferring a payload between drones. The system includes a first aerial drone having a first transfer member and a first controller. The first controller including a processor configured to change a first altitude and first orientation of the first aerial drone. A second aerial drone is provided having a second transfer member and a second controller, the second transfer member having a cone member on one end, the second transfer member being configured to receive the payload. The second controller including a processor configured to change a second altitude and a second orientation of the second aerial drone. The controllers cooperate to dispose the first transfer member within the cone member and transfer the payload from the first aerial drone to the second aerial drone.

In flight transfer of packages between aerial drones

Embodiments are directed to an electrical contact for use in an LGA connector having a split beam cantilever. The contact includes a base adapted for retention in an LGA connector. The contact also includes two cantilever beams extending from the base. The cantilever beams are each connected to the base at a first end of each respective cantilever beam. The contact includes a neck defining a region where a second end of each the two cantilever beams are connected. A contact tip extends from the neck.

LGA socket with improved high-speed differential signal performance

An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request to authorize an in-flight transfer of a parcel between a source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a target UAV, authenticating, via a blockchain, an identity of the source UAV and an identity of the target UAV based on one or more predefined keys included in the request, and in response to the blockchain authentication being successful, initiating delivery of the parcel from the source UAV to the target UAV while one or more of the source UAV and the target UAV are in-flight.

Managing in-flight transfer of parcels using blockchain authentication

Embodiments of the present invention include a method for fabricating a hybrid land grid array connector and the resulting structures. A body is provided. The body includes a first plurality of holes and a second plurality of holes. A conductive layer is deposited on the top and bottom surfaces of the body and the wall surfaces of the first plurality of holes resulting in the top and bottom surfaces being electrically common. The conductive layer is removed from the wall surfaces of a first subset of the first plurality of holes. A portion of the conductive layer is removed from the top surface of the body and the bottom surface of the body from an area surrounding the first subset of the first plurality of holes.

Method for fabricating a hybrid land grid array connector

Connector having a body with a conductive layer common to top and bottom surfaces of the body as well as to wall surfaces of a plurality of holes in the body

Aspects include a system for transferring a payload between drones. The system includes a first drone having a first member and a first controller, the first member having a first coupling device on one end, the first member being configured to carry a payload, the first controller being configured to change a first altitude and orientation of the first drone. A second drone includes a second member and controller, the second member having a second coupling device on one end, the second member being configured to receive the payload, the second controller being configured to change a second altitude and orientation of the second drone. The controllers cooperate to change at least one of first and second orientations to operably engage the first coupling device to the second coupling device for transferring the payload from the first member to the second member.

A printed circuit board assembly and method of assembly is provided for a printed circuit board having a top and bottom surface with at least one edge portion having a rounded surface extending from the top surface to a point below the top surface and at least one electrical contact pad located on the top surface and extending over the edge portion rounded surface to a point below the top surface.

Printed circuit board edge connector

Embodiments of the invention relate to a primary contact or primary body comprising of a primary material with a propensity to corrode. A location on a surface of the primary body is an active location and functions to interface with a secondary body. The active location has a first surface and an oppositely disposed second surface. An anode material is applied to the second surface adjacent to the active location on the first surface. The primary body is exposed to a corrosive material. The anode material functions to divert a galvanic corrosive medium from the active location to the applied anode material.

Preventing corrosion of an electrical connector

Aspects include a system for transferring a payload between drones. The system includes a first drone having a first member and a first controller, the first member having a first coupling device on one end, the first member being configured to carry a payload, the first controller being configured to change a first altitude and orientation of the first drone. A second drone includes a second member and controller, the second member having a second coupling device on one end, the second member being configured to receive the payload, the second controller being configured to change a second altitude and orientation of the second drone. The controllers cooperate to change at least one of the first and second altitude, and the first and second orientation to operably engage the first coupling device to the second coupling device for transferring the payload from the first member to the second member.

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Brian Samuel Beaman