International Business Machines Corporation

Karl Joseph Puttlitz

Benjamin V Fasano

Jeffrey Allen Zitz

Frank Louis Pompeo

Kenneth Charles Marston

Patrick Anthony Coico

Eugene R Atwood

James H Covell

Joseph Angelo Benenati

Sundar M Kamath

Ronald L Hering

Horatio Quinones

Eric J Kastberg

James J Dankelman

Lewis S Goldman

Ali Afzali-Ardakani

Marie Angelopoulos

Jeffrey Donald Gelorme

Jane M Shaw

Jack A Dickerson

Thomas Baird Pillsbury

An integrated circuit module, a land grid array module, and a method for forming the module, include a substrate, which mounts one or more chips or discrete electronic components, and a cap for covering the substrate, and including at least one protrusion coupled to the cap for limiting the amount of flexing of the substrate during actuation. The at least one protrusion can be either rigidly fixed to the cap or adjustably inserted through the cap.

Stress resistant land grid array (LGA) module and method of forming the same

Electrically conductive and abrasion resistant polymeric compositions, methods of fabrication thereof and uses thereof are described. Admixtures of abrasion resistant materials and electrically conductive polymeric materials are formed. Many of these admixtures arc light transmitting and can be used as an abrasion resistant light transmitting electrostatic discharge layers. The light transmitting discharge layer is useful as a surface coating for visual displays such as CRT screens to avoid electrostatic accumulation of dust and scratching. The compositions can be admixtures of abrasion resistant silicones, polysiloxanes, acrylates, epoxies, methacrylates, epoxyacrylates, epoxymethacrylates, styrenes and electrically conductive polymers selected from the group of substituted and unsubstituted polyanilines, polyparaphenylenevinyles, substituted and unsubstituted polythiophenes substituted and unsubstituted poly-p-phenylene sulfides, substituted and unsubstituted polyfuranes, substituted and unsubstituted polypyrroles, substituted and unsubstituted polyselenophenes, polyacetylines formed from soluble precursors, combinations thereof and blends thereof with other polymers. The compositions can be a layer or an electrically conductive polymer with an abrasion resistant layer thereover.

Electrically conductive and abrasion/scratch resistant polymeric materials, method of fabrication thereof and uses thereof

A heat sink in a heat transfer relationship with a substrate such as an integrated chip, chip carrier, or other electronic package. The heat sink is connected to a frame which is connected to a printed circuit board or other suitable support on which the substrate is positioned. The heat sink, which extends through an aperture in the frame is coupled to a surface of the substrate. The heat sink is mechanically decoupled from the substrate. Large heat sinks may be thermally connected to surface mount substrates mounted using technologies such as ceramic ball or column grid arrays, plastic ball or column grid arrays, or solder balls or columns. The heat sink is attached coaxially through the aperture to the substrate. After assembly and lead/tin or other metallic surface mount interconnects are relaxed such that the substrate and is completely supported by the frame and the heat sink imparts zero or nearly zero downward force. Because the heat sink moves freely within the aperture during assembly, the heat sink package is useful for a variety of different substrates. Preferably, the frame is a plate and a plurality of studs. The plate material are selected to match the thermal expansion of the underlying support, and the stud material matched the thermal expansion of the substrate. Thus, the frame construction allows matching expansion and contraction of the assembly to the underlying substrate and support.

Zero force heat sink

A heat sink is placed in a heat transfer relationship with a substrate such as an integrated chip, chip carrier, or other electronic package, without imparting stressful forces to the substrate by connecting the heat sink to a frame which is connected to a support such as a printed circuit board or other suitable carrier on which the substrate is positioned. The heat sink extends through an aperture in the frame and is in heat transfer relationship with a surface of the substrate; however, it is mechanically decoupled from the substrate. The invention has particular application in thermally connecting large heat sinks to substrates that are surface mounted on the support using technologies such as ceramic ball or column grid arrays, plastic ball or column grid arrays, or solder balls or columns. In order to provide intimate contact between the substrate and the heat sink, the heat sink must be depressed coaxially through the aperture of the frame against a surface of the substrate and then secured by, for example, gluing while in contact with the surface. However, this downward force imparted by the heat sink is quickly reduced via relaxation of the lead/tin or other metallic elements of the surface mount. A heat sink in a heat transfer relationship with a substrate such as an integrated chip, chip carrier, or other electronic package. The heat sink is connected to a frame which is connected to a printed circuit board or other suitable support on which the substrate is positioned. The heat sink, which extends through an aperture in the frame is coupled to a surface of the substrate. The heat sink is mechanically decoupled from the substrate. Large heat sinks may be thermally connected to surface mount substrates mounted using technologies such as ceramic ball or column grid arrays, plastic ball or column grid arrays, or solder balls or columns. The heat sink is attached coaxially through the aperture to the substrate. After assembly and lead/tin or other metallic surface mount interconnects are relaxed such that the substrate and is completely supported by the frame and the heat sink imparts zero or nearly zero downward force. Because the heat sink moves freely within the aperture during assembly, the heat sink package is useful for a variety of different substrates. Preferably, the frame is a plate and a plurality of studs. The plate material are selected to match the thermal expansion of the underlying support, and the stud material matches the thermal expansion of the substrate. Thus the frame construction allows matching expansion and contraction of the assembly to the underlying substrate and support.

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Karl Joseph Puttlitz