Abstract:
An example stretchable device is described that includes electrical contacts and an interconnect coupling the electrical contacts. The interconnect has a meander-shaped configuration that includes at least one nested serpentine-shaped feature. The interconnect can be conductive or non-conductive. The meander-shaped configuration can be a serpentine structure, providing a serpentine-in-serpentine configuration.
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:
There is provided a conductive film. The conductive film includes: an anodized layer having a plurality of through holes extending therethrough in its thickness direction; a plurality of linear conductors each formed in a corresponding one of the through holes and each having first and second protrusions protruding from the anodized layer, wherein at least one of the first and second protrusions is covered by a coating material; and an uncured thermosetting resin layer formed on the anodized layer to cover at least one of the first and second protrusions.
Abstract:
An electronic component (chip) mounted structure includes a chip having a terminal, a wiring board having a terminal electrically connected to the terminal of the chip, and an interposing board disposed between the chip and the wiring board and having a structure including an insulating base material provided with a large number of filamentous conductors penetrating the insulating base material in a thickness direction thereof. The terminal of the chip is electrically connected to the terminal of the wiring board via a plurality of filamentous conductors provided in the interposing board.
Abstract:
There is provided a connector sheet which includes an insulation sheet substrate having a front surface and a rear surface opposing to the front surface, and electrically conductive members each passing through the sheet substrate along a thickness direction of the sheet substrate, and the front surface and the rear surface contain a thermoset resin, and have tackiness under a first condition and develop adhesiveness under a second condition which is different from the first condition.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for connecting integrated circuits placed on opposite sides of a circuit board through utilization of conduction elements embedded in the circuit board and extending from one surface of the board to the other. Conductive traces extend along the surface of the circuit board from the conduction elements to the integrated circuits. The conductive traces may be formed from multiple conductive layers.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method of forming a monolayer of substantive particles including the steps of applying to a substrate a curable composition having substantive particles contained therein, the substantive particles having a particle size on at least one dimension thereof of at least 1 micrometer and being in two or more groups of different sizes; exposing the substantive particle-containing curable composition to a source of energy suitable for effecting polymerization of the curable composition for a sufficient time to effect polymerization of a layer of the curable composition having a thickness of no more than 50% of the height of the largest substantive particles; and optionally, removing uncured curable composition. The invention also provides a method of forming a monolayer of substantive particles in a non-random array where the curable composition comprises a ferrofluid composition. The latter method further comprises the step of subjecting the particle-containing curable ferrofluid composition to a magnetic field for a sufficient time to array the particles in a non-random manner in the composition prior to the exposure.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a number of interrelated methods for the production of random and ordered arrays of particles and recesses, as well as films containing such arrays and recesses. The present invention also relates to the random and ordered arrays of particles and films prepared therefrom. The ordered arrays are obtained by the use of ferrofluid compositions which may be curable, solidifiable or non-curing/non-solidifiable. The arrays and films may contain electrically-conductive particles useful in electronic applications for effecting contact between leads or pads.