International Business Machines Corporation

Joseph M Sullivan, Jr

Mark A Brandon

Emanuele F Lopergolo

Arden Steuart Lake

An apparatus and process for electroplating a pin grid array device having a plurality of pins, the pins having a side surface and an extremity. The apparatus comprises a contact plate defining a plane and having a plurality of electrically conductive flexible contact fingers extending from the contact plate away from the plane, the contact fingers adapted to flex when contacted by the pins. The process comprises contacting each of the plurality of pins with a flexible contact finger extending from a single electrically conductive plate, the conductive plate defining a plane, wherein the flexible contact fingers extend away from the plane.

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Wappingers Falls, NY, United States of America

Joseph M Sullivan, Jr