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Minutes of the P-2.2 Committee on Paper and Film Capacitors
April 24, 2001
Hyatt Regency, San Antonio, TX

Name
Organization
Members Present
Mike Lauri IBM Corporation
Laird Macomber Cornell-Dubilier
Len Metzger Panasonic Ind'l Co.
Chris Reynolds AVX Corporation
Cecil Van Arsdale (for Mike Mosier) North American Capacitor Co.
Members Absent
George Witt Lucent Technologies
Others Present
Jesus Garcia DSCC
Caddy Greenidge Bradford Electronics
Rick Plunkett BC Components
Michael Tinkleman EIA/ECA

1.0 Introductions

Self-introductions were made. Cecil Van Arsdale conducted the meeting as acting chairman in the absence of chairman Mike Mosier.

2.0 Committee Organization and Procedures
2.1 Membership and Attendance

Attendance was taken, and it was determined that a quorum was present. The attendance roster and the CTA roster are in process of being updated to reflect the most current members present. All attendees verified the correctness of the information on the rosters.

The Committee was reminded of the Committee membership rule, which states that if a member misses two consecutive meetings, then at the third missed meeting, the member is moved from the membership list to the non-voting CTA list. The member will be re-instated at the next meeting attended. This rule comes from EIA EP-20-A, "Manual of Organization & Procedure," December 2000, Section 4.6.1.1 Meeting Quorum Pool (page 17-18), which states that: -

A meeting quorum pool is defined as those members eligible to vote at a meeting:

a) If a voting member is not represented at two consecutive meetings and the absence continues for the subsequent meetings, the member shall be removed from the Meeting Quorum Poll for the subsequent meetings. Upon attendance at a subsequent meeting the member shall be reinstated in the Meeting Quorum Poll and have full voting privileges at that meeting.

2.2 Approval of Agenda

The Committee unanimously accepted the Agenda as presented.

2.3 Approval of October, 2000 Meeting Minutes

The Committee unanimously accepted the Minutes of the last meeting as written. A list of active P-2.2 Committee projects will be attached to the minutes. Action Item

2.4 Correspondence

No correspondence.

2.5 Review of the Committee's Scope

The scope was read, reviewed and accepted.

3.0 Reports
3.1 DSCC report

DSCC report for P-2.2 is attached.

3.2 Report on the U-1 Committee

The U-1 Committee meeting included a lead free round table discussion with several manufacturers and users participating. The lead free area is of particular interest to the U-1 Committee. These discussions will continue at the Fall ECA Engineering Summit scheduled for October 8-10, 2001 in Philadelphia at the Loews Hotel


4.0 Old Business
4.1 Status of SP-2805-A (EIA-580A0AB), "Detail Specification for Fixed Polyethylene Terephthalate Film Dielectric DC Capacitors Radial-Leaded."

Michael Tinkleman reviewed the history of SP-2805-A, and efforts to address the non-technical editorial comments from the earlier ballot. The chairman will send a letter to the commenter outlining the changes made in response to his non-technical editorial comments.

Motion: - To re-ballot SP-2805-B, incorporating the changes in response to the comments received on SP-2805-A, on a 60-day SP ballot for ANSI public review.
Motion carried unanimously EIA to circulate SP-2805-B on a 60 day SP ballot for ANSI public review. Cecil Van Arsdale to make the changes to SP-2805-A and forward to Michael Tinkleman for re-ballot under SP-2805-B. Action Item

4.2 Status of Task Group drafting SMT film capacitor specification.

A film chip task group was formed to write the SMT film capacitor specification. The group consisting of Laird Macomber, Mike Mosier, and Chris Reynolds, and will report at the fall meeting.

4.3 Five-year Review of Documents

Michael Tinkleman distributed the list of active P-2.2 documents. Only SP-2800-A and SP-2805-A are currently open. The status of SP-2805-A was addressed in agenda item 4.1. Michael Tinkleman will research the history of SP-2800-A and report to the committee at the Fall meeting.

A task group was formed consisting of Mike Mosier, Cecil Van Arsdale, and Laird Macomber to review the other documents on the list that are more than 5 years old to see if updates are needed. They include EIA-376, 376-1, 401, 454, 479-A, 580AA00, and 580A000. Michael Tinkleman will provide copies of the documents to the task group. Action Item

5.0 New Business

5.1 Review of P-2.2 time-slot and meeting length.

The current arrangement of sequential one-hour P2.2 and P2.4 meetings is working very well, and should be continued at the next Engineering Summit.

6.0 Next Meeting

The next meeting will be at the 3rd Engineering Summit 10/8-10/2001 in Philadelphia at the Loews Hotel.
7.0 Adjournment

The Committee moved, seconded, and unanimously agreed to adjourn at 2:45 PM.

8.0 Action Items

Michael Tinkleman to attach list of active P-2.2 projects to the minutes.

Cecil Van Arsdale to make changes to SP-2805-A. Committee Motion to re-ballot as SP-2805-B on a 60-day SP ballot for ANSI public review.

Film-Chip task group writing the SMT film capacitor specification to report at fall meeting.

Michael Tinkleman to review status of SP-2800-A and report at Fall meeting.

Michael Tinkleman to provide the necessary EIA documents to the task group handling the 5 year review of P-2.2 documents.

This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA legal guidelines and the manual of organization and procedures.


Cecil Van Arsdale, Acting Chairperson
Signature on file

Michael Tinkleman, Secretary
Signature on file


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