Abstract:
A process and circuit board assembly by which a single soldering operation produces a multicomponent stack capable of dissipating heat from a power IC chip (12) mounted to a substrate (10). The circuit board assembly generally includes a number of conductors (16) on the substrate (10), with the conductors (16) being spaced apart and substantially parallel to each other. A heat spreader (14) is soldered to at least some of the conductors (16), and the chip (12) is soldered to the heat spreader (14). With this structure, heat is conducted from the chip (12) through the heat spreader (14) and conductors (16) to the substrate (10). To maintain proper orientation of the components (12, 14, 16) relative to each other during a single soldering operation, the components (12, 14, 16) are equipped with complementary features.
Abstract:
An electrical connector system has two connectors, one of which is included in a module mateable with the other connector in a pluggable manner. The other connector includes an elongated guide rail and a connector block in which are retained two or more electrical contacts. Signal connections can be made in a predetermined sequence when the module is plugged into the other connector because the contact pads of the module are of different lengths. For example, sequencing the connection of power and ground signals with respect to data signals provides hot-pluggability. Also, a grounding contact on the module is engaged by a spring clip on the other connector to provide an additional or alternative grounding path.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit package which has a substrate that has a plurality of rectangular contact pads. Solder balls are attached to the contact pads of the substrate. The solder balls are reflowed to create solder joints which attach the substrate to a printed circuit board. The rectangular shape of the contact pads will induce a rectangular shape in the solder joints. The longitudinal axis of the contact pads and resultant solder joints may be aligned with the axes of expansion/contraction of the substrate when the package substrate is subjected to variations in temperature.
Abstract:
An electronic system contains a backplane circuit card which supplies power to various modules. Embedded power distribution planes each include one or more islands, each island being associated with a respective module. The island is electrically isolated from the body of the power plane except at a relatively small area, called the power ramp. The electronic current path from the power plane to the module goes through the power ramp and the island. Preferably, a pair of adjacent power planes at +48 VDC and 0 VDC are in the middle layers of the backplane with a ground plane on either side. Signal planes carrying circuit patterns for multiple data signals are deposited as additional layers on either side of the ground planes. The pair of power planes are nearly identical patterns, the differences being the location of power connections for the modules. In particular, the islands and power ramps are located in the same places on each power plane. This causes substantially equal but opposite current densities in the power planes, so that transients induced when a module is removed from or inserted into a powered-on system are significantly reduced. The exemplary embodiment is an intelligent redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage server having concurrent maintenance capability.
Abstract:
The oscillation type gyroscope comprises an oscillator having electrodes for driving and for detection and also having oscillating arms adapted to oscillate in a cantilevered state, with front end portions of the oscillating arms being free ends; a support member for supporting a base end portion of the oscillator; a circuit board to which the support member is secured; a flexible printed circuit board with wiring patterns formed thereon and having oscillator-side end portions, a circuit board-side end portion and a wiring portion; first connecting portions provided in the oscillator-side end portions, conducted with the wiring patterns and connected to corresponding electrodes electrically by soldering at the base end portion of the oscillator; and a second connecting portion provided in the circuit board-side end portion, conducted with the wiring patterns and connected electrically to the circuit board at the circuit board-side end portion, wherein among the electrodes, those which lie in the same plane and which become equal in potential at the time of polarization and in use, are gathered as one group at the base end portion of the oscillator.
Abstract:
An electrical pad for installation to a board, formed on the module substrate on which a plurality of tips is mounted, are divided into a plurality of divisional pads. Furthermore, each of the divisional pads are connected to each electrode terminals of those tips, and when installed, divisional pads of a pad are electrically connected to be united into a pad.
Abstract:
A ground pattern of a printed circuit board of an electronic instrument is connected with a conductive part of a housing of the instrument by a series combination of components respectively having the inductive nature and capacitive nature, or by a series combination of components respectively having the resistive nature and capacitive nature, or by a series combination of components respectively having the inductive nature, capacitive nature, and resistive nature. In this way the impedance can be adjusted against frequency so as to be ready for the frequency where the standing wave appears, the resonance frequency of LC series circuit, and harmonic frequencies of electric current flowing on the circuit board. In another arrangement, the ground pattern of a printed circuit board is connected with the conductive part of the housing of instrument through a plurality of separate connection paths with different impedances.
Abstract:
A multilayer ceramic device suitable for use in surface mount decoupling applications may have a single capacitor or a capacitor array. The device has a capacitor body defining a plurality of electrical terminals on an outer surface thereof. The terminals are interdigitated such that a respective first polarity terminal will be adjacent to a respective second polarity terminal (and vice versa). The capacitor body contains a plurality of interleaved capacitor plates in opposed and spaced apart relation. Capacitor plates of the first polarity are electrically connected to respective first polarity terminals via a plurality of lead structures. Likewise, a plurality of lead structures electrically connect capacitor plates of the second polarity to respective second polarity terminals.
Abstract:
A system for detecting certain improperly soldered electrical component connections to a printed circuit board includes methods and apparatus providing an automated means for detecting unsoldered component leads is disclosed. A connection pad divided into two portions, or land areas is bridged by the component lead when soldered. A test pad connected to one of the land areas provides a test point for detecting the presence or absence of an open circuit condition through the lead of an electrical component to a point in the circuit to which it is to be electrically connected.
Abstract:
In a multi-layered printed circuit board on which an LSI having a plurality of power supply pins and a plurality of signal pins is mounted, and a grid array package which adopts the printed circuit board, some or all of the plurality of power supply pins are connected to a power supply pattern via an inductance pattern, thereby reducing generation of radiation noise.