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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1997
Peter J Brofman, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Patrick A Coico, Fishkill, NY (US);
Mark G Courtney, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Shaji Farooq, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Lewis S Goldmann, Bedford, NY (US);
Raymond A Jackson, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
David C Linnell, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Gregory B Martin, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Frank L Pompeo, Montgomery, NY (US);
Kathleen A Stalter, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Hilton T Toy, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A device is provided for stretching solder interconnection joints between two substrates of an electronic module. The device employs an expandable metal to exert a separating (stretching) force to the two substrates whereby a lifting rod attached to a clamping bridge is cause to move upwards by expansion of the expandable metal raising a first substrate clamped thereto. A lifting bridge in connection with the clamping bridge is caused to move downward to maintain the lifting bridge in contact with the second substrate being interconnected to the first substrate.