Abstract:
A noncontact IC card is provided with an antenna coil, an IC chip and a short-circuiting circuit formed on a base card. The noncontact IC card is kept inoperative unless the short-circuiting circuit is opened and the noncontact IC card is rendered operative when the short-circuiting circuit is opened. The short-circuiting circuit is formed to extend across a main part and a removable identification part included in the base card. The short-circuiting circuit can be opened by removing the identification part from the base card.
Abstract:
A die-up configuration includes a rigid circuit board with electrically conductive plated-through holes formed therethrough and an integrated-circuit die mounted to the upper surface of which a flexible insulated tape layer is fixed to the upper surface of a rigid circuit board and which has a number of wire-bonding sites. Conductive vias or plated-through holes are provided for connecting the wire-bonding sites on the upper surface of the flexible insulated tape layer to the contact areas formed on the lower surface of the flexible insulated tape layer. Conductors are provided for connecting respective contact areas on the lower surface of the flexible insulated tape layer to solder balls on the bottom of the rigid circuit board.
Abstract:
A multilayer micro circuit module, and the method of manufacturing same, comprises a number of green sheets of ceramic material which are sintered before any other fabrication steps are undertaken. The sintered sheets are then formed with registration holes and via, and an electrically conductive pattern formed of a noble metal or copper is deposited onto one or both major surfaces of each sintered sheets. The sintered sheets are stacked one on top of the other to form a stack whose exterior surface is coated with a sealing material such as solder or glass and then fired at a temperature less than the melting point of a metal forming the conductive patterns so that the interior of the stack including the conductive patterns is substantially isolated from contaminants.
Abstract:
A printed wiring board has an aluminum backing, a dielectric layer overlying the aluminum backing, and a copper layer overlying the dielectric layer. Holes are drilled through the copper and the dielectric layers, and either partially or fully through the aluminum backing, and plated to provide a conductive path between the copper layer and the aluminum backing. Tin-lead traces are applied to the upper surface of the copper layer and the copper layer is etched to define conductive paths. The copper exposed and aluminum exposed surfaces are protected so as to permit processing of the printed wiring board in otherwise-incompatible etchants and other solutions.
Abstract:
A preformed thermal fuse comprising two electrodes, first and second layers of solder, and a conductive bridge comprising a non-paste solder material is disclosed. The conductive bridge has a melting temperature which is substantially equivalent to the predetermined actuation temperature of the fuse. The melting temperatures of the first and second layers of solder are selected to allow reflow soldering of the device.
Abstract:
Two types of programmable elements, fuses and antifuses, are disclosed for forming an electrically programmable burn-in board in one embodiment and an electrically programmable device-under-test (DUT) card in another embodiment. Both types of programmable elements can also be used in a reconfiguration device for interconnecting electrical contacts in a first configuration to electrical contacts in a second configuration. The various embodiments of this invention include, for example, a component socket, a socket adapter, a cable, a cable adapter, a scrambler card for a burn-in board and a device-under-test card for a burn-in board. A method for forming a fuse is also disclosed.
Abstract:
In a BGA package having electrically connected active balls and electrically disconnected dummy balls, the active balls are positioned in a radial direction at intervals of 90.degree. around the dummy balls. When a defect occurs in a solder joint, the package can be easily repaired by finding defective active ball; forming a repair hole by using a cutting means at a predetermined portion of the printed circuit board corresponding to a central position between the dummy ball and the defectively soldered active ball; inserting a solder paste injector into the repair hole to inject solder thereinto; and mutually connecting pad extensions of the dummy ball and the defective active ball with the injected solder. Therefore, the overall process can be simplified and its reliability can be improved.
Abstract:
In a multilayer printed-circuit substrate comprising a plurality of insulating resin layers, a plurality of metal-made electrically conductive circuits respectively laminated between the insulating resin layers and on the upper surface of the uppermost-positioned insulating resin layer and electrically conductive portions for respectively electrically connecting adjacent upper- and lower-positioned conductive circuits to each other, the insulating resin layers except at least the lowest-positioned insulating resin layer have flexibility, and blackening-treated films prepared by applying blackening treatment to the surface of the respective electrically conductive circuits are respectively provided between the upper surfaces of the conductive circuits and the insulating resin layers laminated thereon.
Abstract:
A method for forming conductive interconnect bumps, such as solder bumps, on bond pads on a substrate. The method includes conductive discs and a connecting member formed between two adjacent conductive discs. The discs and connecting member are then placed over the bond pads and heat is applied so that the conductive discs and the connecting member combine to form isolated interconnect bumps. A polymer backsheet is used for support.
Abstract:
Producing a printed circuit board having at least two layers and having a carrier board, a first Conductor layer having contact areas and a second conductor layer having connecting areas, in which a conductive foil, provided with an adhesive coating, is laminated onto the carrier board having the first conductor layer and the contact areas, the adhesive coating an the conductive foal having holes which correspond with the contact areas of the first conductor layer. The perforated conductive foil, provided with the adhesive coating, is compressed and laminated with the carrier board having the first conductor layer, the contact areas of the first conductor layer being bulged at least partially through the holes in the adhesive coating in the direction of the surface of the connecting areas of the second conductor layer so that the surfaces of the contact areas are in each case at a distance from the surface of the connecting areas of the second conductor layer which is less than the thickness of the connecting areas. Subsequently, the second conductor layer having the connecting areas is produced from the conductive foil, the connecting areas of the second conductor layer bounding the holes in the adhesive coating, after which the contact areas of the first conductor layer can be electrically conductively connected to the corresponding connecting areas of the second conductor layer, through the holes in the adhesive coating.