Abstract:
An anisotropic electrically conductive adhesive film having fine through holes independently electroconductively passing through an insulating film in the thickness direction, at least one end portion of both the end portions of the each through hole on the front and back surfaces of said film being blocked with a bump-form metal projection having a larger base area than the area of the opening portion of the through hole, wherein the insulating film comprises a thermoplastic polyimide resin having a melt viscosity at 400.degree. C. of not higher than 1.times.10.sup.8 poise is disclosed. The film is interposed between materials to be connected to provide a connection structure.
Abstract:
An electrical connecting member comprising a holder made of electrically insulative material and a plurality of conductive members electrically insulated from each other and embedded in the holder and having ends exposed from the holder, and wherein a conductive adhesive layer eutectoidally formed from an adhesive resin solution including one or both of pulverized metal powder and metalized ceramic powder by electrophoresis method is disposed on the end of each conductive member exposed from one surface of the holder. A conductive adhesive layers and the other ends of the conductive members exposed from the other surface of the holder are flush with or protruded from the surfaces of the holder.
Abstract:
An edhesive tape has a flexible carrier web that has a low-adhesion face formed with a predetermined pattern of dimples, each of which contains a plurality of electrically conductive particles that can either be loose or bound together into clusters by a binder. An adhesive layer covers said face and deposited particles and can be a pressure-sensitive adhesive or a heat-activatable adhesive. When the adhesive layer is separated from the carrier web, it carries along the particles. When the particle-bearing adhesive layer is used to bond together two arrays of electrodes, facing pairs of the electrodes are electrically interconnected either by single particles or by clusters of the particles. When a binder is used to bind the electrically conductive particles into clusters, the binder can add to the strength of the adhesive bond between the electrode-bearing surfaces.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method of making a sheet material adapted to make bonded electrical connections to an array of closely-spaced conductive terminal pads. The method comprises the steps of providing a thin, flexible, insulating substrate, and squirting a plurality of fine molten strands onto the substrate to form metal strands. The metal strands individually have a cross-section with an area of about 100 to 100,000 .mu.m.sup.2 and the cross-section having a flat section and an arcuate portion. An adhesive or conductive adhesive may be coated over the metal strands, or the adhesive may be provided on the substrate and the conductors imbedded into the adhesive by pressure or heat-sinking the conductors into the adhesive layer.
Abstract:
Electrical interconnections are made by means of a layer or sheet medium comprising chains of magnetically aligned, electrically conducting particles in a nonconducting matrix material. End particles of chains protrude from a surface of the medium, thereby enhancing electrical contact properties of the medium. The medium can be used for temporary as well as permanent connections; in the latter case the use of a nonconductive adhesive material is convenient for physical attachment to contacts on both sides of the medium.
Abstract:
A ceramic substrate having a plurality of holes arranged regularly with a specified pitch can be used for an universal high density ceramic wiring board, wherein predetermined one or more holes among said plurality of holes are used as through holes for interconnecting both side circuits, and the remaining holes not used for a circuit are filled with an electrical insulating material.Said ceramic substrate of universal type can easily be produced inexpensively and within a short lead time, because said substrate requires no individual mold for each of various circuits to punch a green sheet and can be kept in stock as a fired ceramic substrate.
Abstract:
The present invention contemplates fabrication of a printed circuit board blank having a predetermined pattern of pads and interconnecting conductive pathways, preferably (but not necessarily) flush with the face of the insulating substrate. To fabricate a finished circuit board of any desired circuit configuration, the printed circuit board blank is coated with a photoresist and exposed so that upon development of the photoresist and etching in accordance with the developed pattern, the interconnecting conductive pathways between pads will be selectively etched away so that only those interconnects for the desired circuit pattern remain. While contact printing or image exposure systems may be used to expose the photoresist, computer controlled raster scan laser printers offer the combination of speed and versatility, as the predetermined starting matrix of the invention is highly conductive to computer aided design, and the percentage of circuit board area required for exposure is very small compared to normal copper-clad board fabrication techniques. For multilayer printed circuit boards, registration apertures are provided in each board layer for alignment purposes. Interconnects between boards are made by drilling through selective pads and plating the through holes to interconnect the various board layers. Isolation of any layer of any plated through hole may be obtained by either isolation of the pad (removal of all pad interconnects) at the through hole, or alternatively by etching a larger diameter in the pad which region will be filled with laminating adhesive during the lamination process to insulate the pad from the through hole copper plating.
Abstract:
Insulated sheet material useful for making bonded electrical connections, especially to sets of small side-by-side terminal pads. In one typical form, the sheet material is an elongated tape comprising an elongated insulating web; a plurality of narrow spaced parallel elongated electrically conductive stripes on the web; electrically conductive adhesive disposed over the stripes comprising a layer of adhesive material in which are dispersed a monolayer of rather thick electrically conductive particles; and a thin electrically insulating layer disposed over the conductive adhesive and which is nontacky or poorly tacky at room temperature, provides high electrical resistance throughout the layer to the conductive particles, softens to an adhesive and flowable condition upon heating to an elevated temperature, and upon cooling to room temperature assumes a firm and substantially nonflowable condition. Such a connector tape is readily handleable and free from conductive bonding at room temperature but when laid over a set of adjacent spaced terminal pads with the electrically conductive stripes in registry with the pads, and pressed and heated, the conductive particles penetrate through the insulating layer to make electrical connection to the pads.
Abstract:
A multi-layer blank for an electrical circuit board has at least one internal layer, which may constitute a common power supply or ground plane. The inner layer consists of an electrically conductive network extending throughout the area of the inner layer and formed by the repetition of an elementary predetermined pattern in two orthogonal directions. The elementary pattern has such a shape that adjacent patterns are in electrical contact so that the network is equipotential. The pattern is also of such a shape that there is formed a first regular grid of predetermined pitch p whose nodes constitute insulated sites and a second grid off-set by p/2 from the first grid in at least one of the orthogonal directions. The second grid has the same pitch p as the first one and has nodes one at least of which per elementary pattern is insulated while the other ones belong to the conducting network.
Abstract:
The present invention contemplates fabrication of a printed circuit board blank having a predetermined pattern of pads and interconnecting conductive pathways, preferably (but not necessarily) flush with the face of the insulating substrate. To fabricate a finished circuit board of any desired circuit configuration, the printed circuit board blank is coated with a photoresist and exposed so that upon development of the photoresist and etching in accordance with the developed pattern, the interconnecting conductive pathways between pads will be selectively etched away so that only those interconnects for the desired circuit pattern remain. While contact printing or image exposure systems may be used to expose the photoresist, computer controlled raster scan laser printers offer the combination of speed and versatility, as the predetermined starting matrix of the invention is highly conducive to computer aided design, and the percentage of circuit board area required for exposure is very small compared to normal copper-clad board fabrication techniques. For multilayer printed circuit boards, registration apertures are provided in each board layer for alignment purposes. Interconnects between boards are made by drilling through selective pads and plating the through holes to interconnect the various board layers. Isolation of any layer of any plated through hole may be obtained by either isolation of the pad (removal of all pad interconnects) at the through hole, or alternatively by etching a larger diameter in the pad which region will be filled with laminating adhesive during the lamination process to insulate the pad from the through hole copper plating.