Abstract:
A filling system includes a pressurized source of fill material and a pressure fill head wherein the fill head also includes a heating element positioned so as to transfer heat to fill material passing through the fill head. A method of filling holes using a fill material passing through a pressure fill head includes the steps of causing fill material to enter the fill head, modifying the viscosity of the fill material while it is within the fill head, and causing the modified viscosity fill material to exit the fill head and enter at least one hole.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for calibrating surface mounting processes in the manufacturing of printed circuit board assemblies. In one embodiment of a method in accordance with the invention, a test pad of adhesive is deposited onto a substrate, and then a test module is mounted to the substrate at the test pad. The test module is representative of an electrical component that is to be mounted to a printed circuit board, and the test module is mounted to the substrate in a manner in which the electrical component is to be mounted to a printed circuit board. After the test module is mounted to the substrate, the profile of the test pad is detected through the substrate and/or the test module to determine whether the test pad contacts enough of the test module to sufficiently adhere the test module to the substrate without interfering with the terminals of the test module. Accordingly, this embodiment of the inventive method provides an indication or estimate of the desired volume of an adhesive pad to mount a specific component to a PCB.
Abstract:
An apparatus for producing a multi-layer printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a bottom layer board, a hole board, and an adhesive sheet between the bottom layer board and the hole board. The printed circuit board is heated so that adhesive sheet bonds the bottom layer board to the hole board. A mold release sheet and a thermoplastic resin sheet begins to soften at a temperature lower than the melting temperature of the adhesive. A contraction control member controls contraction when the thermoplastic resin sheet cools.
Abstract:
A mold used in producing printed wiring board is disclosed. The mold comprises upper dies and lower dies for sandwiching a printed wiring board therebetween, thereby performing drilling, punching or the like, one of said upper dies and lower dies having a press surface which is provided with concave or convex portions for absorbing steps caused by forming a printed wiring circuit on the printed wiring board.
Abstract:
A multi-layer printed circuit board is disclosed as having more layers and greater accuracy in the conductive traces of those layers than has been previously possible. Using the disclosed method, multi-layer printed circuit boards can be built having a conductive path width of 0.5 mils (0.0127 mm) and spacing between such conductive traces of 0.5 mils (0.0127 mm). The method enables multi-layer boards to be created having more than eight layers, and still maintaining the desired 0.5 mil conductive path width and spacing. The enhanced accuracy and increased number of layers is made possible by use of adjustments to customer-supplied art work based upon evaluation of test pieces made early in the procedure. By use of the disclosed method, multi-layer printed circuit boards can be built having a high density of coaxial cable equivalents and tuned wave guide equivalents. An apparatus is also disclosed which connects the coaxial cable equivalents and tuned wave guide equivalents from one multi-layer printed circuit board to a second multi-layer printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for optimizing the drilling position of a multi-layer printed circuit board prior to drilling. A template having precisely located target holes and fixture reference marks provides initial coordinate reference information for multi-layer printed circuit boards to be inspected by x radiation. Each board is processed by insertion into a holding fixture, examination of four quadrant target areas using x-ray sources and detectors, digitization of the target area images in each quadrant, and computaton of the optimum board position in a follow-on drilling apparatus. After optimization, three reference holes are punched along one edge of the board to provide accurate fiducial positioning marks when the board is placed in the drilling apparatus.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a fabrication method of thick-walled printed circuit board PCB), especially the packaging substrate for mounting thin wafer level components on the PCB substrate. The present invention provides a first embodiment of inserting a dummy at the circuit board manufacturing stage and a second embodiment of adjusting the thickness by inserting a dummy at the wafer processing stage.
Abstract:
A printed circuit board includes a first build-up insulating layer; an interconnect structure buried in an upper side of the first build-up insulating layer and including one or more insulating layers, one or more wiring layers, and one or more via layers; an adhesive disposed between an upper surface of the first build-up insulating layer and an upper surface of the interconnect structure, and having an upper surface exposed from the upper surface of the first build-up insulating layer; and a metal bump including a via portion penetrating the adhesive and a protrusion protruding to the upper surface of the adhesive.
Abstract:
Tamper-respondent assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided which include at least one tamper-respondent sensor and a detector. The at least one tamper-respondent sensor includes conductive lines which form, at least in part, at least one tamper-detect network of the tamper-respondent sensor(s). In addition, the tamper-respondent sensor(s) includes at least one interconnect element associated with one or more conductive lines of the conductive lines forming, at least in part, the tamper-detect network(s). The interconnect element(s) includes at least one interconnect characteristic selected to facilitate obscuring a circuit lay of the at least one tamper-detect network. In operation, the detector monitors the tamper-detect network(s) of the tamper-respondent sensor(s) for a tamper event.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The EMI shielding structure includes a shielding dam provided on a printed circuit board, the shielding dam forming a closed loop that defines a periphery of adjacent shielding regions of the printed circuit board; an insulating member that is provided on the adjacent shielding regions within the shielding dam, the insulating member covering circuit devices provided in the adjacent shielding regions; and a shielding member that covers an upper surface of the insulating member, wherein the shielding dam includes a border portion surrounding the adjacent shielding regions, and a partition portion disposed between the adjacent shielding regions and within the border portion.