Seagate Technology Incorporated

Vieira Systems Inc.

Edward Alan Knutson

Joel William Hoehn

Roger L Hipwell

Jeff O'Konski

Leping Li

Mark Allen Herendeen

John L Ibele

Pramit P Parikh

Christopher Ray Holloman

Gary Douglas Huber

Kara L Maytag

Saravuth Keo

Joe J Schobel

Ralph Marquart

This document generally describes docking stations for portable computing devices with one or more of a variety of features, such as a near horizontal tray into which a portable computing device can be placed (e.g., a tray with an angle between 5-25 degrees from horizontal), embedded microphones and/or speakers, and/or input jacks for external microphones and/or speakers.

Dock for portable electronic devices

The presently disclosed technology describes systems and methods for attaining a ball bond using less than 1 thousandth of an inch diameter gold wire using ultrasonic bonding energy and without heating an underlying bonding pad. The ball bond allows the use of particularly small bonding pads that are particularly close to adjacent microelectronic structures that limit the use of other bonding techniques that have shallow take-off angles.

Ambient temperature ball bond

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Burnsville, MN, United States of America

Edward Alan Knutson