Keith A Bocchicchio

46318151, Dec 30, 1986

Dec 18, 1985

6/811143

Keith A. Bocchicchio - Middletown PA
David L. Hall - Hummelstown PA

AMP Incorporated - Harrisburg PA

H05K 1304

29739

A robot pick-up head for an electrical connector with a hollow rivet at each end, comprises a body for attachment to the Z axis shaft of a robot. In the body are a pair of spring loaded pins, one on each side of the Z axis, and between the pins, is a spring loaded vacuum block. The pins terminate in tapered spigots for insertion into the hollow rivets. When the connector is to be picked up, the spigots are inserted into the rivets with the full force of the robot so that if the rivets are initially canted with respect to the connector, the rivets are straightened. The vacuum block then engages the housing of the connector and is evacuated so that the connector is picked up as the robot shaft rises. The loading springs of the vacuum block are softer than those of the pins so that the connector housing is not damaged when it is engaged by the vacuum block.

46496335, Mar 17, 1987

Dec 18, 1985

6/811142

Keith A. Bocchicchio - Middletown PA
Mark F. Jackson - Harrisburg PA
David L. Hall - Hummelstown PA
Edward J. Paukovits - Hummelstown PA

AMP Incorporated - Harrisburg PA

H05K 330

29739

Apparatus for clinching rivets on electrical connectors to the bottom of a circuit board, comprises a frame in which a shuttle for supporting the board is movable along a rectilinear horizontal path by means of a robot which places the connectors on the board. Two jaw carriages provided with rivet clinching jaws are mounted in the frame beneath the shuttle for movement towards and away from one another by means of cam tracks on the shuttle and cam follower rails on the jaw carriages. The cam tracks are so shaped that the clinching jaws will clinch the rivets where the connectors are placed on the board in longitudinally offset relationship according to the program of the robot. Each jaw carriage has a jaw drive unit thereon which is operated to open and close the jaws according to the robot program.

59294590, Jul 27, 1999

Sep 23, 1997

8/935755

Keith A. Bocchicchio - Elizabethtown PA
Joseph M. Bowling - Carlisle PA

Synergistech, Inc. - Lewisberry PA

G01N 2186

25055934

Systems and methods for inspecting a workpiece, such as a surface mount device. The systems and methods can determine the height, edges, and centers of leads of the surface mount device. The systems and methods also permit lead co-linearity and/or co-planarity values to be derived with relatively good repeatability.

47173041, Jan 5, 1988

Nov 4, 1986

6/927194

Keith A. Bocchicchio - Middletown PA
Glenn I. Hoffner - Mechanicsburg PA
Karl H. Letsch - Wyomissing PA

AMP Incorporated - Harrisburg PA

H05K 1302

414126

Apparatus (24) for feeding electrical connectors from slide packs (SP), to a pick and place robot (2), comprises an elevator (44) which is raised to pick the lowermost pack (SP') from a stack of packs (SP) in a magazine (36). The elevator (44) is then lowered into a connector feed position in which a ram (54) on a flexible chain (52) is run step by step through the pack (SP') on the elevator (44) to place each connector (C) in the pack (SP'), in turn, at a pick-up station (26) to be picked up by the robot (2). When the pack (SP') on the elevator (44) has been emptied of connectors (C), the elevator (44) is raised and the ram (54) is advanced in one stroke beneath pack (SP') on the elevator (44) and a latch (56) on the ram (54) rises to engage the end of the empty pack (SP') nearest to the pick-up station (26). The ram (54) is then retracted, in one stroke, to eject the empty pack (SP') from the apparatus (24).

47672986, Aug 30, 1988

Dec 22, 1986

6/945434

Keith A. Bocchicchio - Middletown PA
David L. Hall - Hummelstown PA
Mark F. Jackson - Harrisburg PA
Joseph R. Keller - Harrisburg PA
Karl H. Letsch - Wyomissing PA

AMP Incorporated - Harrisburg PA

B29C 6502

425112

An apparatus for heat staking plastic parts to other parts to form an assembly are featured, using multiple heating elements which are arranged in zones and which are separately programmable in terms of temperature and displacement to develop optimum deformation of plastic having different characteristics. The heating elements are isolated thermally to provide an improved conservation of heat energy.

59864141, Nov 16, 1999

Jul 9, 1997

8/890456

Keith A. Bocchicchio - Elizabethtown PA
Joseph M. Bowling - Carlisle PA

Synergistech, Inc. - Lewisberry PA

H05B 3700

315312

A device and method for generating output trigger signals, for firing one or more light sources, from input trigger signals generated by a vision processor. The input trigger signals are first accepted from the vision processor. Next, output triggers are determined, in response to the input trigger signals, based on a stored lighting program. Finally the output trigger signals are generated based on the determined output triggers.