International Business Machines Corporation

Kim H Ruffing

Edward Emile Kelley

Franco Motika

Shaji Farooq

Suryanarayana Kaja

Hsichang Liu

Gregg B Monjeau

Nunzio DiPaolo

Karen P McLaughlin

Balaram Ghosal

Donald Francis Canaperi

A secure card adapter provides for writing of highly secure, single transaction information on a machine-readable medium of a card structure in accordance with a format that may be downloaded from an external data source. The card structure may be, for example, an existing access authorization card or an existing credit card containing account-specific information which can be read and stored in memory of the secure card adapter. Once such account-specific information is read from an existing access authorization or credit card, secure transaction information can be written, together with the account specific information in accordance with the downloaded format information on another card structure to provide a universal access authorization and/or credit card. Thus the secure card adapter provides an enhanced degree of security through an existing or transitional communication infrastructure.

Secure credit card adapter

A method for preforming electrochemical processes requiring the application of electricity on features of a substrate includes shorting out the features using a shorting layer across connectors to which the features a in electrical communication. Electricity is then applied and the process is performed.

Method of performing processes on features with electricity

A method of performing electrochemistry processes on features and connectors of a substrate includes the application of a shorting layer across the connectors which are in electrical contact with the features, thereby shorting the features and creating an assemblage for which electricity is applied.

An apparatus and a method for electroplating pin grid array (PGA) packaging modules by utilizing a compressible member and an electrically conductive foil for providing electrical connections to the pins such that all the critical areas of the pins, the wire bond pads, the seal band and the die cavity are electroplated simultaneously through the connection to the pins.

Apparatus and method for electroplating pin grid array packaging modules

A member having a shank is selectively coated with a material such as a metal by loosely sliding a washer made of a material such as a thermoplastic or thermosetting polymer onto the shank, securing the washer such that the washer is in intimate contact with the shank, and immersing at least a portion of the member into at least one coating bath so that a portion of the member is coated and the portion of the shank in contact with the washer is not coated. The member can be an input/output pin for an electronic device and the coating can be applied by methods such as electroless plating or electrolytic plating.

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Kim H Ruffing