Portable electrical noise probe structure

US10663486B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Matteo Cocchini · New York, US
• Michael A. Cracraft · Poughkeepsie, US
• Khaalid P. J. McMillan · Wappingers Falls, US
• John G. Torok · Poughkeepsie, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 6, 2017
• Grant date: May 26, 2020
• Expiry date: Jun 21, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R1/06772
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus includes a carrier base and one or more contact elements coupled to a portion of the carrier base. The one or more contact elements are configured to sense an electrical signal flowing through at least one electrical component in a circuitry under test. The first contact element of the one or more contact elements comprises a power sense conductor extending from a bottom surface of the first contact element toward a top surface of the first contact element and a ground conductor electrically isolated from the power sense conductor.