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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2001
Luc Gilbert Guerin, Quebec, CA;
Mario J. Interrante, New Paltz, NY (US);
Mark Joseph LaPlante, Montgomery, NY (US);
David Clifford Long, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Gregory Blair Martin, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Thomas P. Moyer, Lagrangeville, NY (US);
Glenn A. Pomerantz, Kerhonkson, NY (US);
Thomas Weiss, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of forming an electrical connector including providing a metallic sheet having a multitude of connector blanks formed therein, each of the connector blanks having a base portion, a contact portion and a singulation arm; forming each of the connector blanks into a connector having a predetermined shape wherein each of the connectors remain connected to the metallic sheet by their respective singulation arms and wherein the singulation arms are nonplanar with respect to the metallic sheet; joining the base of each of the connectors to a first substrate; and severing the singulation arms to separate each of the connectors from the metallic sheet wherein the base of each of the connectors is joined to the first substrate. In a preferred embodiment, the contact portion contacts a second substrate.