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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hassan O. Ali, San Jose, CA (US);

Richard L. Bechtel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 ;
Abstract

A clamping system decouples the clamping forces in an electrical circuit assembly coupled to a heatsink. A heatsink clamping assembly applies controllable and predictable force on the electrical circuit assembly including an integrated circuit device (“chip”). The applied force is controlled to effectively ensure intimate contact between the chip and the heatsink to facilitate efficient chip cooling. The force applied to the chip is decoupled from the much higher force required to clamp the electrical interposer interconnect structure between the electrical circuit assembly and the printed circuit board.


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