Electricity: measuring and testing – Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components – For fault location
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-27
2006-06-27
Nguyen, Vincent Q. (Department: 2858)
Electricity: measuring and testing
Fault detecting in electric circuits and of electric components
For fault location
C324S530000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07068039
ABSTRACT:
A device for enabling testing of electrical paths through a circuit assembly is presented. The device may include a test facilitating shipping and handling cover for a socket of the circuit assembly. The test facilitating shipping and handling cover may have a conductive layer for capacitively coupling to an array of pins in the socket during testing. A method for testing continuity of electrical paths through a circuit assembly is presented. In the method, one or more nodes of the circuit assembly are stimulated, contacts of a socket on the circuit assembly are capacitively coupled with a conductive layer of a shipping and handling cover mated with the socket, and an electrical characteristic is measured by a tester coupled to the shipping and handling cover to determine continuity of electrical paths through the circuit assembly.
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Agilent Technologie,s Inc.
Nguyen Vincent Q.
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