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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Milton L Buschbom, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
438107 ; 438108 ; 438109 ;
Abstract
A method is disclosed for making a non-metallurgical connection between an integrated circuit (16) and either a circuit board (12) or second integrated circuit. In one embodiment, an electrical connection is formed between terminals (28) of an integrated circuit (16) and pads (20) on a circuit board (12) without metallurgically connecting the terminals (28) and pads (20). The integrated circuit (16) can be in either packaged or die form. A clamping mechanism (18, 36) attached to the circuit board (12) clamps the integrated circuit (16) to the circuit board (12).