Patent ID: 8860206

Claim:
A method, comprising: adjusting a piston position of one or more pistons with respect to one or more chips on a chip carrier, the adjusting comprising: placing a chip shim on the one or more chips on the chip carrier; placing a seal shim between a lid and the chip carrier, the seal shim being thicker than the chip shim; lowering the lid until the lid contacts the seal shim and the one or more pistons contact the chip shim; fixing the one or more pistons to the lid in the lowered position; and removing the chip shim and the seal shim; dispensing thermal interface material on the one or more chips and lowering the lid until a gap filled with the thermal interface material between the one or more chips and the one or more pistons is about a particle size of the thermal interface material; and sealing the lid to the chip carrier with sealant.