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DRAFT Minutes of P-4 Committee on Mechanical Outlines of Passive Components
April 15, 2002
Sheraton Old Town Inn, Albuquerque, NM

Name
Organization
Members Present
Diane L. Bicknese Cooper Bussman
Brent Elliott Cooper Bussman
Daniel Giblin Cooper Bussman
Laird Macomber Cornell Dubilier
Ken Beymer DSCC-VAT
Dennis Cross DSCC-VAT
Carl Lindquist SAN-O Industrial Corp.
Mike Lauri IBM
Dick Thompson KEMET
Ed Mikoski EIA/ECA
Michael Griffith KOA Speer Electronics
Terry Charles Panasonic
Brian Piscitelli KOA Speer Electronics, Inc.
Joseph Biernach SEI Electronics
Member Organizations Present
Present at Previous Meeting?/Meeting prior previous?
Cooper Bussman Yes/Yes
Panasonic Industrial Co. Yes/Yes
KOA Speer Electronics Yes/Yes
SAN-O Industrial Corp. Yes/Yes
Cornell-Dubilier No/No
IBM Corporation No/Yes
KEMET Corp. No/Yes
SEI Electronics No/No
Member Organizations Present
Present at Previous Meeting?/Meeting prior previous?
AVX Corporation No/Yes
Littelfuse, Inc. Yes/No
Lucent Technologies Yes/No
Murata Electronics* No/No
Schurter, Inc. No/Yes
Taiyo Yuden Yes/Yes
TDK Corporation of America* No/No
Vishay Yes/Yes
Other Organizations Present
DSCC-VAT  
EIA/ECA  

*Dropped from calculation of quorum due to inactive committee participation status

1.0 Introductions
The meeting was called to order at 4:15 p.m. A round of self-introductions was conducted.

2.0 Committee Organization and Procedures

2.1 Membership and Attendance
The membership list was reviewed and adjusted to read as reflected in the following table. A quorum was present.

2.2 Approval of Agenda

2.3 Approval of October 2001 Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the October 2001 Loews Hotel Philadelphia, Pennsylvania meeting were approved.

2.4 Correspondence
No correspondence received since the last meeting.

2.5 Review of the Committee's Scope

The wording of the committee scope was changed to the following: "Provide standardization, administration, and circulation of mechanical outline drawings of electronic parts formatted per PDP-100 provided by industry participants." This change was unanimously approved by the committee.

2.6 Working Group Reports

3.0 Old Business

3.1 Reformatting of PDP-100 (Electronically for the Web) - Carl Lindquist
Carl Lindquist presented his work on a proposed database for components that would eventually replace the PDP-100 document and be more useful for the industry. He demonstrated the database that he had his engineering people prepared and demonstrated some fuse documents from his company. The group approved the concept. The next step is to get the ECA database contact together with the San-O Industrial Corp database expert to convey the basic concept of the database.

The database search engine can be seen at www.sanodevelopment.com/search-new1.asp or www.sanodevelopmant.com/initial-search.asp . The database allows parts to be selected by the following: Mounting, Type, Termination, Format, Length, Width, and Height. The discussion came up to add electrical parameters to the database. A standard electrical parameter format must first be established.

Other topics discussed regarding the database:
· Only fuses added at this point - others committees should work on adding their own formats.
· The database will be turned over for further programming.
· Potential links to manufacturers web pages when completed.
· Added height so maybe we need to add a 6th digit.
· A working group was established to add other fuses and to be the governing body for the layouts and approvals. The group will consist of Carl Lindquist, Terry Charles, Dan Giblan, and Brian Piscitelli.

3.2 Complete balloting on SOCM-3216
SOCM-3216 is under the old format and must be reformatted then reviewed again.

3.3 Other
No new business was presented.

4.0 New Business

4.1 Other

5.0 Next Meeting
The next meeting will be at the ECA Fall Engineering Summit the week of 07-10 October 2002 at the Downtown Marriott in Charlotte, NC.

6.0 Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 5:30 p.m.

This meeting was conducted in accordance with the EIA Legal Guidelines and the Manual of Organization and Procedures.


Brian Piscitelli, Chairperson
Signature on file

Edward F. Mikoski, Jr., Acting Secretary
Signature on file

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