International Business Machines Corporation

3m Innovative Properties

Peter H Bruhn

Paul Andrew Moskowitz

Lawrence Shungwei Mok

Anthony William Gatica

Peter G Ledermann

Stephen Dale Linam

M Lawrence Buller

Rolf Wustrau

Brian D Arldt

Barbara J McNelis

An apparatus for forming a loop in a filament comprising a first wall having a first guide slot formed therein and a second wall having a second guide slot formed therein coplanar and parallel to the first guide slot. The first wall is opposite the second wall and each of the guide slots has opposing ends. A first gripper holds a filament at a first location. The first gripper is mounted from the first wall to the second wall at an end of each of the first guide slot and the second guide slot. The apparatus also includes a movable gripper to hold the filament at a second location. The movable gripper has a separation from the first gripper and is mounted from the first wall to the second wall adjacent to the other end of each of the first guide slot and the second guide slot for movement towards the first gripper to reduce the separation between them. This produces a loop of filament between the first gripper and the moveable gripper.

Chemical stripping apparatus and method

A punch holder has brazed thereon a copper disk and receives a punch extending therethrough. The holder is in registry with an upper punch guide/punch down-stop and has a spring extending therethrough for controlling axial movement of the punch. A lower punch guide and stripper bushing also receive and guide the punch in coaxial alignment therewith. In operation, a magnetically energized coil repulses the disk, which, in turn, imparts downward punching force to the punch with the spring providing restorative force. The disk is fully supported by the punch holder substantially along its radius, thereby preventing distortion. The spring provides constant force over the deflection range, thereby enhancing the punching action while improving reliability and reducing failures. Due to the punch being releasably attached to the punch holder-disk, it may be separately replaced. A sliding contact and aligning tolerance is provided only at opposing ends of the punch between the punch and the lower guide through which it extends at its distal end, and between the punch holder O.D. and upper punch guide I.D. at the proximal end. A repairable head is provided thereby avoiding previous practice of discarding entire defective head assemblies.

Replaceable head for magnetic repulsion punch

An integrated circuit chip package is described wherein the chip has an active face including a plurality of input and output pads. The chip is mounted face down on a pluralilty of flexible inner beam leads. The package's outer beam leads are bonded to pads residing on an underlying circuit board. A convective heat sink is thermally mounted to the reverse face of the chip, which heat sink is formed from folded thin metal sheet. The heat sink exhibits both minimum mass, and optimum cooling efficiency. The minimum mass reduces the cost of the heat sink through material savings and minimizes the possibility of damage to the package caused by sudden acceleration. The heat sink, in addition to itself being somewhat flexible, is provided with mounting points which are physically connected to the underlying circuit board via resilient connecting means.

Integrated circuit package with improved cooling means

Apparatus is described for excising and forming tape mounted electronic devices in an automated fashion so that as the tape bearing the components is fed past a punch and die set, each frame bearing an electronic component is precisely aligned and the electronic component has its leads simultaneously excised from the tape and formed in a predetermined configuration, in a self aligning zero clearance punch and die set, the device so excised being then transferred to a presentation area for pickup for subsequent assembly operations.

Tab device excise and lead form apparatus

A method of, and an apparatus for, constructing a laminated rotor for use in high speed stepping motors or the like. The apparatus consists of a rotatable carousel having a plurality of rotatable work stations each of which is carried to a plurality of operating stations. Lamina are punched from sheet metal stock and brought back into the stock and held in a friction fit. Sheet stock is then advanced to a stacking station where a lamina is forced onto a rotor shaft. The shaft is rotated thereafter in order to uniformly distribute any local metalurgical or planarity inconsistencies in the sheet stock throughout the laminated structure.

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Georgetown, TX, United States of America

Peter H Bruhn