International Business Machines Corporation

Michel Robert

David Hirsch Danovitch

Claude Blais

Louis-Marie Achard

Alain Blais

Christian Bedard

Julie Croteau

Jean-Francois Garneau

A clip to secure trays in a stack including a platform, rails coupled to the platform to mate with tabs of at least bookending trays in the tray stack when the platform occupies a brake position thereof relative to the stack and an elastic brake element coupled to the platform and configured to be biased against the stack when the platform occupies the brake position to increase a mating friction between the rails and the tabs, the elastic brake element being actuatable against the bias to permit selective movement of the platform to and from the brake position, the selective movement solely actuating the elastic brake element.

Tray holder

The disclosed invention provides for a method of manufacturing solder columns for particular use in attaching substrates to a printed circuit board. The method results in columns of homogeneous composition and thus overcomes problems associated with the phenomena of segregation. The method includes the steps of forming particles of the metal composition to be used for the columns from a molten source of the composition. The solid particles are then formed into segments of homogeneous composition by drawing ingots of the composition into wire and severing the wire into segments.

Method of manufacturing wire segments of homogeneous composition

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Bromont, Canada

Michel Robert