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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Glen N. Biggs, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Russell A. Budd, North Salem, NY (US);
Benjamin V. Fasano, New Windsor, NY (US);
John J. Garant, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Peter A. Gruber, Mohegan Lake, NY (US);
John P. Karidis, Ossining, NY (US);
Bouwe W. Leenstra, Walden, NY (US);
Phillip W. Palmatier, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Kevin M. Prettyman, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Christopher L. Tessler, Campbell Hall, NY (US);
Thomas Weiss, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A fill head apparatus includes at least one chamber for holding a fluid. The chamber has an outlet for expelling the fluid. A vacuum device has an inlet for a suction device adjacent to the fluid outlet. A plurality of flexible and resilient sealing devices contact a top surface of a workpiece. The sealing devices are positioned on opposing sides of the chamber outlet and on opposing sides of the vacuum device inlet, such that the sealing devices create at least a partial seal around a cavity defined by the workpiece and the cavity is beneath both the chamber outlet and the vacuum outlet.