Abstract:
A printed circuit board includes a substrate having a mounting surface on which a surface mount device having at least one terminal is to be mounted. On the mounting surface, at least one footprint is arranged and positioned to align with the terminal. The footprint comprises a plurality of patterned parts and a plurality of solder layers formed on the patterned parts, respectively. Each patterned part is so shaped to limit a region in which molten solder flows when the solder layer is melted.
Abstract:
A printed circuit board with a reinforcing pattern. The printed circuit board includes lands formed in a wiring pattern at positions corresponding to formation positions of external connection electrode terminals, a pattern protective film having openings which are opened at the formation positions of the lands; wherein the diameter of each of the openings of the pattern protective film is set to be larger than the outside diameter of each of the lands, and a reinforcing pattern extends outwardly from the outer peripheral edge of each of the lands and the extension end of the reinforcing pattern is covered with the pattern protective film, thereby preventing occurrence of cracks in solder balls formed on the lands and enhancing the shear strength of the solder balls.
Abstract:
A substrate of a semiconductor package is proposed, which is formed with a strip copper layer on a core layer of the substrate, wherein a solder mask is arranged to cover the core layer and two lengthwise sides of the copper layer by a width between 0.1 mm to 1.0 mm, while a surface between the sides of the copper layer is exposed by forming a groove opening to the atmosphere and plated with gold. This makes bulges generated by shrinkage of the solder mask covering the sides of the copper layer extend outwardly in a direction away from the groove opening, allowing clamping force to be sufficiently exerted on the substrate by a mold during an encapsulation process. As such, after completing the encapsulation process, an encapsulating resin remained in the runner can be easily removed without damaging the substrate, and also resin flash can be prevented from occurrence.
Abstract:
A method is proposed for mounting a passive component, such as a resistor or a capacitor, over an IC package substrate, such as a BGA (Ball Grid Array) substrate. Conventionally, the mounting of a passive component over a substrate would result in the undesired existence of a gap between the passive component and the substrate, which could lead to such problems as bridged short-circuit, popcorn effect, and dismounting of the passive component during subsequent processes. As a solution to these problems, the proposed method utilizes an electrically-insulative material, such as epoxy resin, to fill up the gap between the passive component and the substrate. Various techniques can be employed to fill the electrically-insulative material into the gap, including dispensing and stencil printing. Due to the fact that the proposed method allows no gap to be left between the passive component and the substrate, it can help eliminate the drawbacks of the prior art, thus allowing the manufactured IC package to be more assured in quality and more reliable to use.
Abstract:
A high density, non-bussed semiconductor package and a full body gold (FBG) method for manufacturing semiconductor packages are provided to improve electrical and mechanical connections with semiconductors and other electronic components and devices. The semiconductor package is fabricated by developing circuitry on the wire bond side of the semiconductor package prior to developing the ball attach side. The copper circuitry on the wire bond side is fully covered and protected from the environment. Solder masks are applied directly to the semiconductor substrate or copper layer to avoid contact with gold. The ball attach area is covered and protected by metallic layers, such as nickel and gold, or an organic solderable material to eliminate weak solder mask-gold connections.
Abstract:
The present invention aims to manufacture a reliable multilayer flexible wiring board at high yield. Flexible wiring board 10 used for multilayer flexible wiring board 40 of the present invention has metal coating 14 on the surface of metal wiring film 19, and metal coating 14 is exposed within the contact region. A wall member rising above the surface of metal coating 14 is provided around the exposed metal coating 14. The wall member is formed of wall face 23 of opening 17 in resin film 15 at the top of metal wiring film 19, for example. When bump 34 having low-melting metal coating 36 is contacted with metal coating 14 in said contact region and heated above the melting point of the solder metal under pressure, low-melting metal coating 36 melts. The molten low-melting metal is stopped by wall face 23 from overflowing outside the contact region so that any bridge cannot be formed by the solder metal between metal wiring film 19.
Abstract:
A method for positioning a solder ball onto a contact tail of an electrical connector comprises several steps. Firstly, arrange the contact tail into a center region and a peripheral region surrounding the center region. Secondly, attach solder paste onto the center region of the contact tail via a first mesh painting procedure. Thirdly, attach solder resist onto the peripheral region of the contact tail via a second mesh painting procedure. Fourthly, position a solder ball on the center region of the contact tail via a screen board. Fifthly, apply a reflow soldering procedure on the solder ball so that the solder ball can be soldered on the solder paste attached to the center region of the contact tail.
Abstract:
A method of forming BGA interconnections having improved fatigue life is disclosed. In particular, a combination of mask-defined and pad-defined solder joints are selectively positioned within the BGA package. The mask-defined solder joints possess a high equilibrium height, which forces the pad-defined solder joints to elongate, thereby making the pad-defined solder joints more compliant. Further, the pad-defined solder joints posses a slightly longer fatigue life because the stress concentrations found in the mask-defined solder joints are not present in the pad-defined solder joints. Therefore, the fatigue life of BGA packages is increased by implementing a majority of mask-defined solder joints to maintain a high equilibrium height, and selectively placing pad-defined solder joints in high stress areas of the BGA package.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including a pair of opposing substrates and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the substrates, at least one driver circuit disposed at a periphery of one of the substrates for applying a drive voltage to the liquid crystal layer, a circuit board mounting thereon a display control circuit for controlling and driving the at least one driver circuit. The circuit board includes a chip component having a pair of electrodes disposed at respective ends thereof, the electrodes are soldered to a pair of land areas disposed on the circuit board, respectively. A portion of a respective one of the land areas is covered with a protrusion of a solder resist layer protruding from a center of a side of the respective one of the pair of land areas opposite from mutually facing sides of the pair of land areas toward a center of the respective one of the pair of land areas. A distance L between the protrusions of the solder resist layer satisfies an following inequality, LnullEL, where EL is a distance between outer ends of the pair of electrodes of the chip component.
Abstract:
A system and method for conducting heat from electrical devices mounted on a circuit board is disclosed. A heat sink for conducting the heat is provided that includes a pair of substantially parallel vertical legs and a horizontal member coupled between the pair of substantially parallel vertical legs to form a “U” shape. The horizontal member includes an outer surface and an inner surface both having a layer of thermal interface material. The heat sink is surface mountable to a heat sink mounting pad on a surface of a printed circuit board. The heat sink mounting pad is adjacent to and thermally coupled to a heat transfer pad of an electronic device. The heat sink is thermally coupled to the electronic device.