Abstract:
A layered clad laminate with universal center plane adapted for the manufacture of printed wiring board comprising an electrically conductive self-sustaining, integral metal center sheet having, in repetitive fashion, a series of predetermined patterns of punched or photochemically developed openings therein, said sheet being pressed between electrical insulating layers of resin impregnated reinforcing material, said layers being adhered to said sheet and to each other through said openings, and on each of the outer surfaces of said laminate and adhered thereto a layer of electrically conductive metal foil which is essentially uniform and imperforate.
Abstract:
An improved arrangement for connecting electrical circuits is formed by a plurality of superimposed insulating sheets joined together. At least one face of each of the sheets carries networks of conductive strips. The arrangement concludes linking members for electrically coupling conductive strips situated at different ones of said sheets and connecting members which connect the strips to the electrical circuits. The linking and connecting members are arranged in rows and columns defining corridors through which must pass the conductive strips. The general directions of the conductive strips are parallel to each other and to the corridors. At least one strip out of two is in the form of an offset line such that the average distance between two adjacent strips along their substantially parallel paths is greater than the distance which would separate them if they were entirely straight.
Abstract:
A unitary sandwich-type ground and voltage plane consisting of a first and second layer of conductive material separated by an insulator and having therein a plurality of spaced apertures in a pattern to conform to the spacing of connector terminals and having etched patterns on said first and second layers for enabling electrical connections to be made between appropriate terminals and the first and second conductive layers.
Abstract:
A rip stop material is attached at a stress area of a flexible circuit board in order to strengthen the flexible circuit board and minimize ripping and cracking in the polyimide and/or the copper conductors of the circuit. A rip stop transition layer is formed and deposited at a location on the flexible circuit in order to minimize, reduce, if not preventing cracking and ripping of the circuit as it is bent and flexed. The rip stop transition layer can be placed at different locations on and within the flexible circuit in order to minimize cracking and ripping as the flexible circuit is bent, flexed and twisted.
Abstract:
A flexible substrate is provided with: a stretchable sheet; a member located on the sheet; and a stretchable strip connected to the member, and located on the sheet. When the amount of extension of the sheet is equal to or less than a predetermined value, the sheet has a first elastic modulus, and when the amount of extension of the sheet exceeds the predetermined value, the sheet has a second elastic modulus that is greater than the first elastic modulus and greater than the elastic modulus of the strip.
Abstract:
A substrate for mounting a semiconductor device includes an insulating layer having first and second opposed surfaces defining a thickness. First and second electrically conductive lands are included in the insulating layer. The first electrically conductive lands extend through the whole thickness of the insulating layer and are exposed on both the first and second opposed surfaces. The second electrically conductive lands have a thickness less than the thickness of the insulating layer and are exposed only at the first surface. Electrically conductive lines at the first surface of the insulating layer couple certain ones of the first electrically conductive lands with certain ones of the second electrically conductive lands. The semiconductor device is mounted to the first surface of the insulating layer. Wire bonding may be used to electrically coupling the semiconductor device to certain ones of the first and second lands.
Abstract:
Mechanical measures strengthen a flexible circuit board or deformable electronic by manipulating the location and/or intensity of the stress concentration or to limit bending, torsion, and stretching. A material layer is patterned onto the flexible circuit board with a specific pattern and place of deposition in order to modify the stress concentration and profile of the circuit board and increase its overall strength. The material layer may be configured to modify the stress concentrations during bending away from the weak points in the assembly or to spread the stress during bending by increasing the radius of the bend curvature and therefore decreasing the chance of mechanical failure.
Abstract:
To provide an anisotropic conductive film which can respond to increasing pitch reduction of connection targets while maintaining connection reliability, and can be manufactured at a lower cost than conventional, and to provide a method of manufacturing the same. The anisotropic conductive film is provided with a porous film consisting of polymer, having numerous holes penetrating in a film thickness direction, the holes being in a honeycomb arrangement and having inner wall surfaces which curve outwards, a conductive material that fills the holes in the porous film, and an adhesive layer coated on both surfaces of the porous film. The porous film is formed by leaving a supporting substrate on which cast is a polymer solution where a polymer is dissolved in a hydrophobic, volatile organic solvent, under high humidity conditions.