The Post Office

British Telecommunications Public Limited Company

Graham K Whitehead

David Sydney Butler

John Patrick Harding

Roger J Bates

Kenneth Taylor

A chip carrier includes a body (1) having a central region and sidewalls (31) connected to the central region by an elastically deformable region (33), in order to reduce thermal strains. Also for the same reason a heat sink (41) may be attached underneath the carrier below the carrier's die attachment site (8) and thermally conductive material (40,42) may connect them together. The heat sink may be used for mechanical anchorage. The chip carrier may be produced by injection moulding from an aromatic thermoplastic polymer. A carrier may be moulded with more than one die attachment site or a circuit board with die attachment sites could be moulded, preferably with the die attachment site recessed so that the surface of the die 9 is co-planar with conductive tracks on the board.

Integrated circuit chip carrier

A communications cable based on optical fibres comprises a core 2 with external helical channels 13. The fibres 6 in the channels are accessible through removable parts 15 of an outer sheath 4.

Improved communications cable with lines of weakness

Apparatus for joining together two wires by deforming a crimping clip around the wires. The apparatus has a pair of crimping jaws and a support member for the clip, the jaws and support member moving into a crimping position to deform the clip around the wires. The jaws and support member are moved by a toggle linkage which develops an output force which varies with the condition of the toggle and increases as the jaws and support member move toward the crimping position.

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Ipswich, United Kingdom

Graham K Whitehead