Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – With rotor
Patent
1991-07-26
1993-05-11
Karlsen, Ernest F.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
With rotor
324 725, 324158F, 29846, G01R 104
Patent
active
052104850
ABSTRACT:
A test apparatus for testing electronic integrated circuitry, a test probe assembly for use in the apparatus, and a method of forming the test probe assembly are provided. The test apparatus subjects electronic integrated circuitry under test to changing temperatures while communicating test signals from external test equipment to the circuitry under test and back to the test equipment. The test probe assembly used in the apparatus is adapted to expand and contract along with the electronic integrated circuitry as the probe assembly and the integrated circuitry are heated and subsequently allowed to cool during testing, thereby maintaining precise alignment of probes on the probe assembly with test contact points on the electronic integrated circuitry. The probe assembly comprises a device interface board which is attachable to the external test equipment, a probe alignment device having an array of holes therein, and a plurality of probes attached at one end to the device interface board and extending through said array of holes. The probe alignment device comprises upper and lower guide elements separated by at least one spacer. The upper and lower guide elements each comprise a layer of electrically insulating, photolithographically patternable material attached and adjacent to a layer of silicon.
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Kreiger Walter C.
Wilder Donald L.
Burns William J.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Karlsen Ernest F.
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