Thomas E Cipolla8 Benson Rd, Bethel, CT 06801

6414842, Jul 2, 2002

Apr 5, 2000

09/543702

Thomas Mario Cipolla - Katonah NY
George Liang-Tai Chiu - Cross River NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 120

361687, 361680

A stand for a portable personal computer including a base including a front side, a back side, a right side, a left side, and a bottom surface. The stand includes at least one stand member interconnectable with the base. The at least one stand member is positionable in a deployed position and a stowed position. In the deployed position the at least one stand member supports at least one portion of the bottom surface of the base at an elevated level with respect to a surface that the portable personal computer is supported by. The at least one stand member engages a surface of the base in the stowed position.

6507488, Jan 14, 2003

Apr 30, 1999

09/303379

Thomas Mario Cipolla - Katonah NY
Lawrence Shungwei Mok - Brewster NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 120

361687, 361699, 361700, 16510432, 3647081

A computer which possesses a bottom keyboard housing having a rear edge hingedly connected with the lower edge of an openable display assembly, and wherein heat-generating computer electronics contained in the housing has heat removed therefrom through the intermediary of heat pipes which are hingedly connected with at least one heat dissipator located in the display assembly. In essence, the computer incorporates an inexpensive construction of heat pipe hinges employed in the thermal interconnection of the bottom keyboard housing of the portable personal computer containing the keyboard and electronics with the display assembly, wherein the heat pipes are protected from bending stresses prior to assembling the major portions of the portable personal computer, such as the keyboard housing and the display assembly.

6587151, Jul 1, 2003

Aug 26, 1998

09/140572

Thomas Mario Cipolla - Katonah NY
Rama Nand Singh - Bethel CT

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H04N 5225

348373, 348552, 348375, 3482071, 34821114, D16202

On a portable computer, a video camera is integrated as a feature by mounting the camera as an assembly made up of a lens and associated pixel electronics in a camera base that is positioned on the perphery of the display in the cover of the portable computer when the cover is open, and the providing of a cavity in the base portion of the portable computer positioned so that the camera assembly enters the cavity when the cover of the portable computer is closed.

6592449, Jul 15, 2003

Feb 25, 2002

10/083270

Thomas M. Cipolla - Katonah NY
Richard I. Kaufman - Somers NY
Lawrence S. Mok - Brewster NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

F24F 700

454184, 361687, 312236, 415213, 236 491

A fan module including: two or more individual fans, each fan having an air movement means and a motor engaged with the air movement means for accelerating air entering each of the two or more individual fans; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature associated with the two or more fans and for outputting a first signal corresponding to the temperature; rotational speed sensor for outputting a second signal corresponding to a rotational speed of each of the two or more fans; and a processor for receiving the first and second signals and controlling the two or more individual fans based on the first and second signals.

6752201, Jun 22, 2004

Nov 27, 2002

10/305879

Thomas M Cipolla - Katonah NY
Tarek J Jamal-Eddine - Brewster NY
Lawrence S Mok - Brewster NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

F28D 1500

165121, 16510433, 16510421

A cooling mechanism having a heat sink, a first conduction device, and a convection device is provided. The first conduction device conducts heat from a heat source to the heat sink. The convection device has a first side, a second side, a peripheral dimension. The heat sink is disposed about the peripheral dimension of the convection device. The convection device draws in air through the first and second sides and forces the air radially outward across the heat sink. A cooling mechanism is also provided wherein the cooling mechanism has a ratio of heat removal in watts to volume in cubic centimeters from about 1:1 to about 3:11 at a sound level of between about 20 and 40 decibels.

6791836, Sep 14, 2004

May 14, 2003

10/437766

Thomas M. Cipolla - Katonah NY
Richard I. Kaufman - Somers NY
Lawrence S. Mok - Brewster NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 120

361687, 361690, 415213, 165 803

A fan module including: two or more individual fans, each fan having an air movement means and a motor engaged with the air movement means for accelerating air entering each of the two or more individual fans; a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature associated with the two or more fans and for outputting a first signal corresponding to the temperature; rotational speed sensor for outputting a second signal corresponding to a rotational speed of each of the two or more fans; and a processor for receiving the first and second signals and controlling the two or more individual fans based on the first and second signals.

6919515, Jul 19, 2005

Jan 23, 2001

09/768372

Edmund David Blackshear - Wappinger Falls NY, US
Thomas Mario Cipolla - Katonah NY, US
Paul William Coteus - Yorktown Heights NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H05K001/16

174260, 257737, 257780, 361768

The providing of an array interface of conductive joint members for use in forming interconnections between mating surfaces such as a pad on a surface mount electronic device and contacts on a circuit card where one portion of the conductive joint members are of a relatively elongated or oval outline and are oriented with the longer dimension in one direction to accommodate wiring spacing and another portion oriented in a different direction for accommodating expansion stress. In manufacturing when the relatively elongated shape is oriented with the longer dimension along the wiping motion direction in a screen type forming of the conductive joint members the slurry of material that is to be the conductive joint members fills the openings in the screen more reliably and the areas of the conductive members are more uniform. The invention provides the advantages of an increase in the number of wiring lines, an increase in uniformity of wiped screen deposition conductive joint member formation, ability to employ more than one out of chip and wiring levels in expansion mismatch stress relief, and ability by conductive joint member dimensional alignment to improve reliability and flexibility.

7715197, May 11, 2010

Jun 5, 2008

12/133547

Shurong Tian - Mount Kisco NY, US
Thomas M. Cipolla - Katonah NY, US
Paul W. Coteus - Yorktown Heights NY, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

H05K 7/20

361719, 361704, 361715, 361721, 257718, 257719, 165 803, 165185

A heatsink structure and method for the cooling of closely spaced packaged heat-producing devices, such as dual-in-line memory modules (DIMMs). A folded sheet metal heatsink structure is provided which is constituted of a coined metallic material and which has a large plurality of waffle-shaped ridges extending therefrom constituting additional surface areas which are adapted to enable heat generated by hub chips to pass upwardly and then outwardly through waffle-like ridges and, thus, dissipated to the exterior, thereby imparting an improved degree of cooling to heat-producing components or devices.