Abstract:
To provide a method of manufacturing a highly reliable circuit device realizing a smaller, thinner and lighter configuration. In the method of manufacturing a circuit device according to the invention, a resin sealed body is separated from a supporting substrate, after the resin sealed body containing a circuit device is formed on a top surface of the supporting substrate. Therefore, manufacture of a circuit device having no substrate becomes possible and it realizes a thinner and lighter circuit device with improved heat dissipation. Moreover, since sealing with a sealing resin can be performed on the supporting substrate, warps, caused by the differences in thermal expansion coefficients between the sealing resin and conductive patterns and between the sealing resin and circuit components, can be prevented. Hence, it becomes possible to prevent flaking of conductive patterns from the substrate and a poor contact between the conductive patterns and a metal thin wire, and consequently to manufacture a highly reliable circuit device.
Abstract:
A method for mounting a semiconductor device, which can decrease the occurrence rate of failures, a method for repairing a semiconductor device, which can easily repair defective solder joints, and a semiconductor device which makes those methods feasible. A substrate 1 has formed therein through-holes 7 lined on the internal walls with a wiring layer 9, and solder balls 6 are fusion-bonded to the substrate 1 in such a manner as to cover the through-holes 7. In the mounting process or in the repair process, heating probes 41 are passed through the through-holes 7 and thrust into the solder balls 6 to thereby melt the solder balls, and the heating probes are pulled out of the solder balls to let the solder balls cool down. In those processes, only the solder balls 6 can be heated, thereby averting adverse effects on the IC chip 3. In the repair process, the solder balls 6 can be restored to an initial condition free of intermetallic compounds.
Abstract:
A semiconductor chip is provided that is highly packageable and particularly well suited for mounting on a circuit board having a curved surface. The semiconductor chip comprises a warpage control film that controls the warpage of a substrate.
Abstract:
A layered heater is provided with a resistive layer having a resistive circuit pattern, the resistive circuit pattern defining a length and a thickness, wherein the thickness varies along the length of the resistive circuit pattern for a variable watt density. The present invention also provides layered heaters having a resistive circuit pattern with a variable thickness along with a variable width and/or spacing of the resistive circuit pattern in order to produce a variable watt density. Methods are also provided wherein the variable thickness is achieved by varying a dispensing rate of a conductive ink used to form the resistive circuit pattern, varying the feed rate of a target surface relative to the dispensing of the ink, and overwriting a volume of conductive ink on top of a previously formed trace of the resistive circuit pattern.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for applying ink, according to a soldermask pattern, to a printed circuit board having elevated pads defining pad edges, the method including flooding the printed circuit board with ink such that the ink advances to the pad edges and is stopped thereby and thereat, without climbing onto the elevated pads.
Abstract:
A circuit substrate is described where the circuit substrate has a first wiring group extending in a first direction and a second wiring group extending in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction. The first wiring group of the circuit substrate is stronger than the second wiring group, and the second wiring group bends more easily than the first wiring group, which results in directional flexibility of said circuit substrate.
Abstract:
An inductor element containing circuit board of the present invention comprises a plurality of conductive layers, and a conductor having an inductor function (inductor conductor segment) in one or more of the conductive layers, wherein at least part of the inductor conductor segment is made thicker than other conductors disposed within the circuit board. The at least part of the inductor conductor segment extends through an insulating layer disposed between the conductive layers, or is embedded in the insulating layer, wherein the part of the inductor conductor segment has a thickness one-half or more the thickness of the insulating layer. A power amplifier module of the present invention comprises the multi-layer circuit board, a semiconductor amplifier fabricated in the multi-layer circuit board, and an impedance matching circuit coupled to the output of the semiconductor amplifier. The impedance matching circuit has a portion thereof formed of the inductor conductor segment.
Abstract:
A method of forming a plurality of solid conductive bumps for interconnecting two conductive layers of a circuit board with substantially coplanar upper surfaces. The method comprises the steps of applying a continuous homogenous metal layer onto a dielectric substrate, applying a first photoresist and exposing and developing said first photoresist to define a pattern of conductive bumps; etching the metal layer exposed by said development to form said plurality of conductive bumps; removing said first photoresist; applying a second photoresist onto the metal layer; exposing and developing said second photoresist to define a pattern of conductive bumps and circuit lines; etching the metal layer exposed by said development to form a pattern of circuit lines in said metal layer; and removing said second photoresist. The methods of the present invention also provides for fabricating a multilayer circuit board and a metallic border for providing rigidity to a panel.
Abstract:
By use of a simple structure, also without enlarging thickness and size too much, provided is a light emitting module which can improve heat dissipation of a light emitting component. On a surface of a wiring substrate, a pair of lands face to each other, and two wiring line is connected to the land, respectively. A mounting side outside electrode of a light emitting component is connected to a lead frame to which a light emitting element is die-bonded, and a non-mounting side outside electrode is connected to a lead frame which is connected to the light emitting element through a bonding wire. And, the mounting side outside electrode is bonded to the land by solder, and the non-mounting side outside electrode is bonded to the land by solder and thereby, the light emitting component is mounted on the wiring substrate. A line width of the wiring line at a side to which the mounting side outside electrode of the light emitting component is soldered is made to be larger than a line width of the wiring line at a side to which the non-mounting side outside electrode is soldered.
Abstract:
Structure for forming a switchable shunt for a suspension assembly having conductive, insulating and metal base layers. The shunt includes a bridge in the conductive layer with either a continuous connection or small gap between ends of the bridge. The continuous connection of the bridge is severed either by temporarily moving the lands out of their original plane by stretching and rupturing the bridge or by shearing the continuous connection of the bridge. For the sheared or gapped bridge, at least one end of the bridge is moved out of the plane, compressed and elongated. When released, the separated ends of the bridge overlap and contact each other to form a normally-closed switch. To subsequently open the switchable shunt, at least one of the lands is moved out of plane to physically and electrically open the connection between the separated and overlapped ends of the bridge.