Communication systems incorporating control meshes
View Patent ↗The method of communicating with circuitry that includes providing a woven mesh having elongated conductive elements extending in array forming directions relative to the circuitry, establishing communication sites associated with the mesh elements, located in spaced apart relation, and operating the sites via the mesh to communicate optically with the circuitry, having detection capability.
1. The method of communicating with circuitry that includes:
a) providing a woven mesh having elongated conductive elements extending in array forming directions relative to said circuitry, the array defining a plane or planes,
b) establishing communication sites associated with the mesh elements, located in spaced apart relation,
c) operating said sites via the mesh to communicate with said circuitry, having detection capability,
d) flowing coolant fluid through the mesh in the plane or planes of the array,
e) said circuitry provided on one or more dies having a side or sides facing said sites and said mesh,
f) said mesh located between two of said dies provided at opposite sides of the mesh, and compressing said mesh between said dies.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein certain of such elongated elements are provided as one of the following:
i) optical tubes,
ii) optical conductors,
iii) optical conduits,
iv) radiation conduits.
3. The method of claim 2 including establishing light escape loci spaced along said mesh.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein others of said elongated elements are provided as elongated metallic elements crossing over said mesh.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein said mesh has opposite sides, and at least one of said sides is positioned in site contrasting relation to a die carrying said circuitry.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein step b) includes one of the following:
i) locating LEDs at said sites, with orientation so that LED light is communicated to said circuitry for detection, and
ii) locating LASERS at said sites.
7. The method of claim 6 including differentially controlling emission operation of said LEDs in at least one of the following modes:
i) light from differentiated sites,
ii) LED emitted light frequency,
iii) LED emitted light duration,
iv) LED emitted light phase.
8. The method of claim 6 including locating optical detectors associated with said circuitry, in the paths of light transmission from said LEDs or LASERS.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein said elements are interwoven to provide element hills and valleys, and locating LEDs proximate certain of said hills and distributed over said array.
10. The method of claim 1 wherein said circuitry is provided on one or more dies having a side or sides facing said sites and said mesh.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein said elements extend in X and Y directions, and light is emitted in a Z direction, of a rectangular coordinate system.
12. Apparatus for communicating with a circuitry unit, comprising in combination:
a) a woven mesh having elongated conductive elements extending in array forming directions relative to said circuitry,
b) communication sites associated with the mesh elements, located in spaced apart relation,
c) first means for operating said sites via the mesh elements to communicate with said circuitry unit, having detection capability,
d) said circuitry unit overlying said sites, and clamping means causing contact points on the circuitry unit to pressurally engage said sites,
e) and including means for flowing coolant through said clamped mesh.
13. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein certain of such elongated elements are provided as optical tubes.
14. Apparatus of claim 13 including light escape loci spaced along said mesh.
15. Apparatus of claim 13 wherein other of said elongated elements are provided as elongated metallic elements.
16. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein the mesh has opposite sides, and at least one of said sides is positioned in site contrasting relation to a die carrying said circuitry unit.
17. The apparatus of claim 12 wherein said sites include LEDs oriented so that LED light is communicated to said circuitry for detection.
18. The apparatus of claim 17 wherein said means controls the LEDs in at least one of the following modes:
i) light from differentiated sites control,
ii) LED emitted light frequency,
iii) LED emitted light duration,
iv) LED emitted light phase.
19. Apparatus of claim 17 including optical detectors associated with said circuitry unit, in the paths of light transmission from said LEDs.
20. Apparatus of claim 17 wherein said elements are interwoven to provide element hills and valleys, said LEDs located at certain of said hills distributed over said array.
21. Apparatus of claim 12 wherein said circuitry unit is provided on one or more dies having a side or sides facing said sites and said mesh.
22. Apparatus for communicating with a circuitry unit, comprising in combination:
a) a woven mesh having elongated conductive elements extending in array forming directions relative to said circuitry,
b) communication sites associated with the mesh elements, located in spaced apart relation,
c) first means for operating said sites via the mesh elements to communicate with said circuitry, having detection capability,
d) and wherein said circuitry is provided on one or more dies having a side or sides facing said sites and said mesh,
e) and wherein said mesh is located between two of said dies provided at opposite sides of the mesh,
f) and including means for flowing coolant through the mesh, and between said dies.
23. The combination of claim 22 including said circuitry unit overlying said sites, and clamping means causing contact points on the circuitry unit to pressurally engage said sites.
24. The combination of claim 23 wherein said clamping means includes one of the following:
i) covers and fasteners tightened to cause the covers to clamp the mesh and circuitry unit together at said sites and contact points on the circuitry unit,
ii) external spring or springs,
iii) elastoplastic composition of the mesh,
iv) springy condition of the mesh.
25. Apparatus for communicating with a circuitry unit, comprising in combination:
a) a woven mesh having elongated conductive elements extending in array forming directions relative to said circuitry,
b) communication sites associated with the mesh elements, located in spaced apart relation,
c) first means for operating said sites via the mesh elements to communicate with said circuitry unit, having detection capability,
d) said circuitry unit overlying said sites, and clamping means causing contact points on the circuitry unit to pressurally engage said sites,
e) and including means for flowing coolant through said clamped mesh,
f) and wherein said elements are provided as optical fibers extending in different directions.
26. Apparatus for communicating with a circuitry unit, comprising in combination:
a) a woven mesh having elongated conductive elements extending in array forming directions relative to said circuitry,
b) communication sites associated with the mesh elements, located in spaced apart relation,
c) first means for operating said sites via the mesh elements to communicate with said circuitry, having detection capability,
d) and wherein said circuitry is provided on one or more dies having a side or sides facing said sites and said mesh,
e) and wherein said mesh is located between two of said dies provided at opposite sides of the mesh,
f) and wherein said sites are at one side of the mesh, confronting one die, and wherein support balls are provided at the opposite side of the mesh, facing the other die.