Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of producing electronic components such as LED displays and hybrid IC's from a board supply frame. The frame comprises a parallel pair of elongate side bands, and a plurality of unit circuit boards integrally incorporated in the frame by means of connecting webs and arranged between the pair of side bands at a predetermined interval therealong. Various process steps such as chip bonding and wire bonding are performed with respect to the individual circuit boards while they are still in the frame. In a final step, each unit circuit board or electronic component is separated from the frame. The frame may be provided with an identification pattern to identify the type of unit circuit boards incorporated in the frame.
Abstract:
A method for assuring that a multi-layer circuit board has been assembled in a selected order which method incorporates the step of forming a label on each layer of the multi-layer circuit board, with each of the labels having a unique indicia thereon indicative of that layers position in a correctly assembled multi-layer circuit board. Additionally, there is provided the step of forming a transparent area in each layer above the last layer to be viewed, with the size of each transparent area limited to that necessary to view only the indicia of the following correctly assembled layers, such that an incorrectly ordered layer prevents the viewing of at least one indicia. A replication of the labels, commencing from the last ordered layer to the first ordered layer, provides for a doubling in the number of layers that can be checked for correct assembly order.
Abstract:
Densely packed high resolution printed wiring boards may be achieved by providing channels below grade in a substrate planar surface, thereby providing greater conductor width for closely spaced conductors. By mechanically removing the substrate surface between the channels, high virtual resolution is obtained with high quality conductors and insulation spacings of the order of about 0.003 inch, and with actual conductor widths of greater than 0.012 inch. Thus the packing density of printed wiring patterns may be increased significantly. Also the quality of conductor adherence and conductivity is improved. Thus a non-critical and inexpensive process unexpectedly provides an improved quality, more precise printed wiring pattern.
Abstract:
A procedure and apparatus for preparing an electronic baseboard are disclosed. The baseboard is marked such that each side shows the specific location for various circuit elements and their corresponding connections. The components are inserted into holes in the base board and are connected by means of a wiring device. The wiring device includes a tubular hollow body which houses an electrical conductor wire. A reel is rotatably attached to one end of the hollow body. The electrical conductor wire is wound on the rotatable reel, runs axially through the hollow body and emanates through a nozzle at a second end of the device. The device is optionally provided with a blade for cutting the electrical conductor wire.
Abstract:
A printed circuit board having a circuit pattern formed on at least one of the first and second faces of a substrate and having characters and symbols representing components to be mounted on said substrate printed on the first face and the second face of the substrate, wherein the characters printed on the first face have been printed in the reversed images in about the corresponding positions of the back face. Since the characters printed on the first face of the printed circuit board are also printed in the reversed images in the immediately corresponding positions of the second face of the board, these characters can be used as indexes to find a particular position on the printed circuit board, and the first or second face can be instantly distinguished from the second or first face. The present invention also provides a method for the fabrication of a printed circuit board comprising the steps of printing on the first face of a substrate which has a circuit pattern formed on at least one of the first and second faces of the substrate with a first printing plate on which characters are disposed, preparing a second printing plate having the reversed character images by turning over the above first printing plate to reverse the normal characters, and printing the reversed character images on the second face of the substrate with the second printing plate.
Abstract:
A printed circuit board wherein a conductor pattern is printed on an insulating base, first solder resist layers are formed on the surface of the conductor pattern remaining lands which are for soldering thereon, second solder resist layers for prevention of bridging for preventing bridging of solder are formed at least at portions where the gap between the lands is narrow, and thereby electronic parts such as an IC can be reliably assembled on the printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A master grid layout sheet and methods of manufacture associated therewith are disclosed for use in graphic art work such as the layout and reproduction of printed circuits and the like. In typical printed circuit work precision art work and subsequent photographic reproduction thereof are normal intermediate processing steps. The master sheet includes a pattern, usually of orthogonal reference lines, printed thereon in a predetermined critical gray or neutral monotone. The monotone has a visual density such that the reference line pattern is visible to a draftsman but the light transmission density or opacity thereof is insufficient to cause the pattern to be reproduced in a controlled photographic reproduction of the master sheet.
Abstract:
A method for producing a wiring circuit board assembly sheet includes a marking step of forming a mark made of a recessed portion in a metal support board, and after the marking step, an insulating layer forming step of forming a base insulating layer on one surface in a thickness direction of the metal support board formed with the mark.