Abstract:
A large number of pads, to which component leads are to be soldered, are formed on an insulating substrate so as to constitute a pad array. Colder layers are precoated on the pads. Each of the pads has a component lead mounting portion where a component lead is to be mounted, and a component lead non-mounting portion where no component lead is to be mounted. The component lead non-mounting portion includes a wide part having a width greater than that of the component lead mounting portion.
Abstract:
A twisted-pair conductor line structure is formed on a substrate (22) having insulated conductive layers (10, 11). The conductive layers are used to form first, second, third, and fourth conductive planar segments (16). A first conductive link (17) joins the first and second planar conductive segments to provide a first signal path. Similarly, a second conductive link (17) joins the third and fourth planar conductive segments to provide a second signal path. The first and second conductive links are operatively arranged to form a twist (17)in the first and second signal paths, such that the resulting magnetic fields (57, 59) around the twisted conductive segments will be opposite to each other for cancelling each other out, in order to reduce the magnetic field radiation to the surrounding environment.
Abstract:
An electrical interconnection board (e.g., a backplane) in which connection positions are spaced along one dimension of the board. Each connection position includes holes for making electrical connections. Layers of the board each have a pattern of conductive path segments connecting holes at each connection position with corresponding holes at other connection positions. The path segments together define continuous conductive routes along the length of the board. Each conductive route includes path segments which respectively lie on different layers. This arrangement increases the distance along which any two pairs of the conductive routes are adjacent each other on a layer, thus reducing interference (e.g., mutual coupling and crosstalk) and improving signal transmission characteristics.
Abstract:
A printed circuit card and card edge connector for use with a 32-bit bus include respectively a pattern of conductive fingers and pins in the connector that render the card electrically compatible with existing 8-bit STD connectors and that render the card edge connector electrically compatible with existing 8-bit STD cards. the latter compatibility makes it possible to use in 32-bit systems any of the more than a thousand existing 8-bit circuits without modification; while the former compatibility makes available to 8-bit systems an easy path to growth and the expanded computational power of a 32-bit system.
Abstract:
A backplane having a layer of insulation material, a plurality of lead segments arranged in line and spaced from one another on a first surface of the insulation material, a plurality of cooperating lead segments arranged in line and spaced from one another on a second surface of the insulation material, and connectors for interconnecting the ends of alternate segments on the first and second surfaces to form a first continuous line alternating between lead segments on the first and second surfaces. Connectors are also provided for connecting the ends of alternate segments on the first and second surfaces to form a second continuous line separate from the first line, the first and second lines twisting along the axis of signal propagation to produce a twisted pair in the backplane.
Abstract:
Arrangement for reducing cross talk between electrical circuit conductors wherein the conductors lie within individual parallel channels within the same plane or different parallel planes within the induced voltage or cross talk region of an energized and a quiet conductor and either converge or diverge with respect to each other. The amount of relative convergence or divergence, preferably mor than six degrees and less than 15 degrees, is that required to attenuate the magnitude of any signal induced by the activated conductor in a neighboring or quiet conductor to maintain an acceptable and desired signal-to-noise ratio.
Abstract:
A circuit board having a window for receiving an electronic device substantially in the form of a plate is provided with elastic holding tabs of at least two different lengths which project into the window, the tabs forming the ends of conductor runs on the circuit board. Upon a pushing of the plate through the window, the short holding tabs snap back and the plate becomes clamped to the circuit board by the holding tabs, these tabs also serving to complete the electrical coupling between the conductor runs of the circuit board and contacts on the plate.
Abstract:
A planar support member for an electric circuit, e.g. a printed circuit board, wherein at least a region of the support member includes magnetic material through at least a part of its thickness. A magnetic circuit is made in this material by forming at least one opening through it. The support member is then coated with insulative material and conductor paths are made on both faces of the support member by conventional techniques for such members. These paths include a winding disposed around a core part of the magnetic circuit with alternate half turns being formed on opposite faces and interconnected by through plating. The inductive circuit thus formed may constitute an inductor, a transformer or a relay.
Abstract:
A package assembly which combines metallized ceramic technology and printed circuit board multilayer technology. A plurality of modules on a metallized ceramic substrate have closely spaced pins, for example, on 50 mil centers or grid, are plugged into a complex high precision multilayer printed circuit carrier. The pins are staggered in height with the longer pins having a relatively wide spacing, for example, on 100 mil centers or grid. The longer pins protrude through the high precision carrier and plug into a normal relatively simple and low cost printed circuit card or planar package.
Abstract:
An electrical connection board containing a number of planes of conducting elements, with each pair of planes attached to the two faces of an insulating plate, arranged so that the conducting elements of one plane do not overlap those of other planes, with regularly spaced rows and columns of metallized connecting holes interposed therethrough. The conducting elements are capable of transmitting high-frequency pulses exhibiting steep edges without undesirable cross-talk phenomena resulting.