Abstract:
A process for the preparation of an anisotropic conducting material including the steps of providing a strip or sheet of a non-conducting matrix and laminating at least one layer of a release material to each side thereof to form a composite matrix, forming an array of holes in a predetermined pattern in the composite matrix, passing the matrix through a coating head which simultaneously fills the holes in the array in the composite matrix from both sides of the matrix with a conducting material, curing or drying the composite filled matrix and removing at least one layer of release material from each side of the matrix.
Abstract:
Electronic circuit prototype wiring board is fabricated with layers of electrically conductive material separated by layers of dielectric material. Contact pads of electrically conductive material are arrayed on a surface of the board. Columns of electrically conductive material extend upward from each of the conductive layers to selected contact pads, passing through perforations in any intermediate layers above, such that each of the pads is in electrical communication with only one of the conductive layers. All of the pads connected to a common conductive layer are of a similar geometric plan form which is associated with that layer and which is different and distinguishable from the plan form of pads in electrical communication with any other of the conductive layers. In an alternative embodiment, the wiring board is fabricated of an elastic dielectric material. Access points for each conductive layer of the board are identified by similar geometric shapes associated with that layer and which are different and distinguishable from shapes identifying access points for any other of the conductive layers. Pins fabricated of electrically conductive material are inserted into the elastic dielectric material to establish electrical contact with a desired conductive layer and be retained by the dielectric material to serve as a wiring post.
Abstract:
Electronic devices having at least two components wire mating contact pads are provided with high-aspect-ratio solder joints between the mating pads. These joints ar formed by placing a composite solder medium containing solder wires in an electrically insulating matrix such that at least two solder wires are in contact with the mating pads, and fusing the wires to the pads. The insulating matrix with remainder of solder wires is then optionally removed from between the said at least two component. The composite solder medium is formed by preparing an elongated body of solder wires in an insulating matrix and cutting off slices of the composite solder medium, the solder wires having a high-aspect-ratio of length to the diameter. Alternatively sheets of the composite solder medium are prepared by magnetically aligning solder coated magnetic particles into columns arranged transverse of an insulating matrix and heating sufficiently to fuse the solder in each column into a continuously conducting solder path.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for providing an array of metal microbeads on a substrate, preferably in a regular pattern of very fine, uniform size microspheres or microbeads at precise spacing or scale previously unachievable. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of providing a metal layer on a substrate that is partitioned into metal regions; heating the metal layer to a temperature sufficient to melt the metal and to permit beading of the layer into discrete microbeads.
Abstract:
Multilayer circuit assemblies are made by stacking circuit panels having contacts on their top surfaces, through conductors extending between top and bottom surfaces and terminals connected to the bottomend of each through conductor. The terminals and contacts are arranged so that when the panels are stacked the terminals on the bottom of one panel are in alignment with the contacts on the top surface of the immediately underlying panel. The panels are selectively treated on their top and/or bottom surfaces so as to selectively disconnect or connect each contact to a terminal on the bottom surface of the same panel. For example, the top surface of the panel may be selectively etched to disconnect a contact from one through conductor and hence from the associated terminal. The aligned terminals and contacts are nonselectively connected to one another at each interface so that wherever a terminal and contact on adjacent panels are aligned with one another there are connected to one another. This forms composite vertical conductors extending through a plurality of the panels. The selective treatment of the panel top and bottom surfaces provides selective interruptions in the vertical conductors. A circuit panel precursor having the through conductors and methods of making the same are also provided.
Abstract:
Electrically conductive elements on two substrates can be electrically interconnected by an adhesive tape containing electrically conductive particles, most of which are substantially uniformly spaced from their six nearest neighbors. Preferably the particles are spherical and of substantially equal diameter slightly exceeding the thickness of the adhesive layer. The adhesive tape can be made by forming a dense monolayer of the particles, covering a stretchable adhesive layer with that dense monolayer, biaxially stretching the adhesive layer to separate each particle from other particles of the monolayer, and then embedding the particles either into that adhesive layer or into the adhesive layer of another tape.
Abstract:
The inventive interconnector, which is used for electrically connecting two arrays of electrodes on two circuit boards, etc., is a striped sheet composed of alternately arranged strips of an insulating adhesive hot-melt resin and strips of a conductive adhesive hot-melt resin composition. The interconnector is prepared by stacking a film of the insulating resin coated on one surface with the conductive composition, integrating the stack into an integral block and slicing the block in a plane perpendicular to the surface of the stacked films. Alternatively, the interconnector is composed of a matrix of an insulating adhesive hot-melt resin and regularly distributed spots of a conductive adhesive hot-melt resin composition. Such an interconnector can be prepared by stacking alternately numbers of the above mentioned striped sheets and sheets of the insulating adhesive hot-melt resin one on the other, integrating the stack into an integral block and slicing the block in a plane perpendicular to the running direction of the conductive strips in the conductive sheets.
Abstract:
The invention provides a sheet material adapted to make bonded electrical connection to an array of closely spaced conductive terminal pads. The material may be provided as a roll of an elongated flexible connector tape. The sheet material of the invention comprises a thin, flexible insulating substrate and a plurality of longitudinally-extending, regularly-spaced, metal conductive members. The sheet may also include an adhesive layer that may cover the conductive members or at least a portion of the conductive members may extend above the adhesive layer. The conductive members may be supported and held on the substrate or may be suspended in the adhesive, out of contact with the substrate.
Abstract:
A multilayer printed circuit board structure and a method for generating artwork masters for the manufacture thereof. The multilayer board comprises universal internal layers of predefined circuit patterns. The internal layers include power and ground planes, and for boards having high component and circuit density, one or two signal crossover layers with short, equal-length runs oriented transversely to the runs of an adjacent outermost signal layer. Electrical interconnections between layers of the circuit board are effected by interlayer conductors such as pins or plated-through holes at predefined locations. The artwork masters for the outermost layers are generated utilizing two degrees of layout precision. A universal layout master having interconnection pads and parallel circuit runs extending across the entire surface of the board is first prepared using a high degree of precision. The universal layout master is then superposed with other layout masters including a component matrix and utilized to generate a composite artwork master having relatively short circuit runs of a second degree of precision interconnecting the parallel runs and the pads. A tool for a unique outermost layer is then reproduced from the composite artwork master utilizing an artwork master of another layer to control interlayer registration.
Abstract in simplified Chinese:本发明系提供导电性薄片材料(10),其含有导电性粒子柱状物,该粒子系排成一线而在该导电性薄片材料(10)之侧面间形成连续柱状物(19)。此等粒子柱状物(19)系经安排,以使该薄片经其厚度方向为导电性,且在侧面方向为电绝缘性。本发明亦提供制造此种导电性薄片材料(10)之方法。本发明能够在极微细间距下,以一种精密而有守则排列,提供导电性通路。