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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
May. 29, 1996
Stanley Robert Jordan, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Gary Leon Stewart, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Ralph Trollinger, Pompano Beach, FL (US);
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for applying a force to laminated integrated circuit cubes in an oven chamber includes a force-applying member, an actuator for the force-applying member, and sealing structure for sealing the force-applying member to an opening permitting access by said force-applying member into the oven chamber. The sealing structure has a flexible sleeve, and the force-applying member passes through the sleeve. A first end of the sleeve is hermetically sealed to the force-applying member, and a second end of the sleeve can be hermetically sealed about the opening. The force applying member can move within the opening and the flexible sleeve will flex with this movement.