Downstop column sensors for socket creep detection
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsNOAH SINGER, JOHN S. WERNER, JOHN TOROK, ARKADIY O. TSFASMAN, LUKE L. JENKINS
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and products for socket downstop creep detection includes monitoring one or more creep detection sensors included within one or more downstops within a socket, where the socket is included on a printed circuit board (PCB) and a module is coupled to the socket, detecting socket downstop creep associated with the module based on data received from the one or more creep detection sensors, and performing one or more actions based on detecting the socket downstop creep.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a module including multiple contact pads;
- and
- a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a socket for receiving the module, wherein the socket includes:
- a plurality of pins configured to contact the multiple contact pads of the module when the module is coupled to the socket;
- a plurality of downstops coupled to a socket base;
- and
- one or more creep detection sensors included within one or more of the plurality of downstops, wherein each creep detection sensor is configured to detect a threshold amount of creep within the socket.
An apparatus comprising:
- a module including multiple contact pads;
- a socket for receiving the module, wherein the socket includes:
- a socket base;
- a plurality of downstops mounted on the socket base;
- a plurality of pins configured to contact the multiple contact pads of the module when the module is coupled to the socket;
- and
- one or more creep detection sensors mounted on the socket base and proximate to a pin of the plurality of pins, wherein each creep detection sensor is configured to detect a threshold amount of creep within the socket;
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- a printed circuit board (PCB) coupled to the socket and comprising a sensor monitoring circuit coupled to the one or more creep detection sensors.
A method for socket downstop creep detection, the method comprising:
- monitoring one or more creep detection sensors included within one or more of a plurality of downstops within a socket, wherein the socket is included on a printed circuit board (PCB), and wherein a module is coupled to the socket;
- detecting socket downstop creep associated with the module based on data received from the one or more creep detection sensors;
- and
- performing one or more actions based on detecting the socket downstop creep.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.