Abstract:
A printed wiring board is used as a printed circuit board of various kinds of electronic devices, and has a part on which a coil is mounted. A metallic pattern area such as a copper foil is formed in a coil vicinity area including the part on which said at least coil is mounted, on the printed wiring board. The metallic pattern area is divided into plural areas in a direction of a coil current flowing in the coil. Thereby, a loop current is not generated in the same direction as that of the coil current in the metallic pattern area.
Abstract:
Illumination assemblies include a substrate having a first and second electrically conductive layer separated by an electrically insulating layer. The insulating layer includes a polymer material loaded with thermally conductive particles. At least a portion of the thermally conductive particles simultaneously contact both the first and second electrically conductive layers. A plurality of light sources such as LEDs or other miniature light sources are preferably disposed on the first conductive layer.
Abstract:
A method of fabricating a conductive line provides a substrate having a blanket layer of conductive material disposed thereon, a removing of a first portion of the blanket layer of conductive material to form one or more gaps that define a first line, the gaps adjacent to the first line, the first line having at least a first segment of a first width and a second segment of a second width, the first and second widths being different, a first increasing of the width of a first gap of the one or more gaps, the first gap adjacent to the first segment, by a first amount, and a second increasing of the width of a second gap of the one or more gaps, the second gap adjacent to the second segment, by a second amount wherein the first and second increasing depend upon a desired electrical characteristic. The first amount and the second amount may be different from each other.
Abstract:
Heat dissipation, is improved, of a semiconductor device on a tape carrier package, in which the number of outputs of the semiconductor device has been increased for implementing a multi-channel configuration and narrower pitches are employed. There are included a tape carrier 20 having lead patterns 21 to 24 formed on a tape base 28 thereof, and a semiconductor device 10 mounted on the tape carrier 20 and having electrode patterns 11 to 14 disposed thereon. The semiconductor device 10 includes heat dissipating electrode patterns 15 to 17 at positions where the heat dissipating electrode patterns 15 to 17 do not interfere with the electrode patterns 11 to 14. The lead patterns 21 to 24 are electrically connected to the corresponding electrode patterns 11 to 14, respectively. On the tape carrier 20, heat dissipation patterns are formed. The heat dissipation patterns are disposed at positions where the heat dissipation patterns do not interfere with the lead patterns 21 to 24 and are also electrically and thermally connected to the corresponding heat dissipating electrode patterns 15 to 17, respectively.
Abstract:
A method of processing a substrate is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and conductive paths extending from the first surface to the second surface. The method also includes (1) covering a portion of the first surface with a conductive material, and (2) removing a portion of the conductive material to define conductive traces on the first surface.
Abstract:
A method for fabricating semiconductor components such as printed circuit boards, multi chip modules, chip scale packages, and test carriers is provided. The method includes providing a substrate having a blanket deposited conductive layer thereon. Using a laser machining process, grooves are formed in the conductive layer to define patterns of conductors on the substrate. The conductors can be formed with a desired size and spacing, and can include features such as bond pads, conductive vias, and external ball contacts. In addition, selected conductors can be configured as co-planar ground or voltage traces, for adjusting impedance values in other conductors configured as signal traces.
Abstract:
A process for forming an electrical circuit component includes forming an initial metal layer on a surface of a synthetic plastics substrate, and irradiating the initial metal layer with laser light along a closed path so as to remove the initial metal layer therealong. The closed path irradiated by the laser light thereby establishes an insulating region covered by a first portion of the initial metal layer which is bounded by the closed path, and a conducting region covered by a second portion of the initial metal layer which surrounds the closed path and the insulating region established thereby. A further metal layer is then formed over the second portion of the initial metal layer of the conducting region. The first portion of the initial metal layer of the insulating region may thus be removed to thereby expose a corresponding surface portion of the synthetic plastics substrate.
Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board is to form on a top surface of an insulating substrate a layer of such plating ground as a metal film, to irradiate such electromagetic wave as a laser to a boundary edge zone of non-circuit parts with respect to circuit-printing parts on the insulating substrate in correspondence to a pattern of the non-circuit parts to remove the plating ground layer at the part irradiate by the electromagnetic wave with the plating ground layer at the non-irradiated part left as formed, and thereafter to form a plating on the surface of the plating ground layer at the non-irradiated parts, whereby it is enabled to allow the laser irradiation to be carried out only with respect to the boundary edge zone of the non-circuit parts, without irradiating all over the non-circuit parts.
Abstract:
An indicator assemblyhaving a plurality of indicators mounted in a common rectangular housing having a rear wall, there being provided a circuit plate integrally molded in the rear wall of the housing that provides the necessary circuitry for actuating each of the indicators from a remote transducer, the circuit plate prior to being molded into the rear wall of the housing having narrow cut-out portions defining the circuits in the plate with small web bridges across these cut-out portions to provide the necessary support for the plate prior to insertion molding into the rear wall, and after molding the housing these supporting webs are selectively removed through the housing rear wall and the circuit plate at each of these webs to isolate the circuits in the circuit plate.