Patent ID: 6968614

Claim:
A method for positioning a plurality of interconnecting elements of an array of interconnecting elements of an electronic module into respective holes of a template, said template having a top surface and a bottom surface and having an array of holes extending from the top surface to the bottom surface of at least the same number of holes as the number of interconnecting elements of said array of interconnecting elements and said array of holes being correspondingly positioned as the interconnecting element array, each of said holes having an opening in said top and bottom surfaces, and at least some of said openings in a first portion of the top surface being positioned at greater distances from the bottom surface than other openings in the top surface and at least some of other of said openings in a second portion of the top surface being positioned at a lesser distance from the bottom surface than other openings, said method comprising the steps of: positioning the module so that the interconnecting elements corresponding to the holes in said first portion of the top surface are aligned wit and are positioned over the holes of said first portion of the top surface; engaging said interconnecting elements corresponding to the holes in said first portion of the top surface with said holes in said first portion of the top surface so that said interconnecting elements enter the corresponding holes in the first portion of the top surface and other interconnecting elements are aligned with other holes of the template; and urging the module towards the template such that interconnecting elements are pushed into holes in said first portion of the top surface of the template and other interconnecting elements enter and are pushed into holes located in the second portion of the top surface of the template such that each of the interconnecting elements of the module is engaged with and pushed into a corresponding hole in the template.