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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:
Mar. 30, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Todd H. Buley, Stone Ridge, NY (US);
Roger Lam, Fishkill, NY (US);
Daniel O'Connor, Millbrook, NY (US);
Charles Hampton Perry, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 3/36 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 3/36 ;
Abstract
A method in which an alignment tool consisting of a nest and guide tool is used to align an LGA module in the nest and then the LGA module is removed from the nest and aligned with a circuit card by the use of the guide tool.