Abstract:
Products and assemblies are provided for socketably receiving elongate interconnection elements, such as spring contact elements, extending from electronic components, such as semiconductor devices. Socket substrates are provided with capture pads for receiving ends of elongate interconnection elements extending from electronic components. Various capture pad configurations are disclosed. Connections to external devices are provided via conductive traces adjacent the surface of the socket substrate. The socket substrate may be supported by a support substrate. In a particularly preferred embodiment the capture pads are formed directly on a primary substrate such as a printed circuit board.
Abstract:
An interconnection contact structure assembly including an electronic component having a surface and a conductive contact carried by the electronic component and accessible at the surface. The contact structure includes an internal flexible elongate member having first and second ends and with the first end forming a first intimate bond to the surface of said conductive contact terminal without the use of a separate bonding material. An electrically conductive shell is provided and is formed of at least one layer of a conductive material enveloping the elongate member and forming a second intimate bond with at least a portion of the conductive contact terminal immediately adjacent the first intimate bond. The component carries the contact structures on both sides, the spacing of the structures on the first side being different than that of the second side.
Abstract:
Deposition of metal in a preferred shape, including coatings on parts, or stand-alone materials, and subsequent heat treatment to provide improved mechanical properties. In particular, the method gives products with relatively high yield strength. The products often have relatively high elastic modulus, and are thermally stable, maintaining the high yield strength at temperatures considerably above 25.degree. C. This technique involves depositing a material in the presence of a selected additive, and then subjecting the deposited material to a moderate heat treatment. This moderate heat treatment differs from other commonly employed "stress relief" heat treatments in using lower temperatures and/or shorter times, preferably just enough to reorganize the material to the new, desired form. Coating a shape and heat treating provides a shaped deposit with improved material properties. Coating a shape with a portion connected to a base and a portion detached therefrom can provide a resilient, conductive contact useful for electronic applications.
Abstract:
Resilient contact structures are mounted directly to bond pads on semiconductor dies, prior to the dies being singulated (separated) from a semiconductor wafer. This enables the semiconductor dies to be exercised (e.g., tested and/or burned-in) by connecting to the semiconductor dies with a circuit board or the like having a plurality of terminals disposed on a surface thereof. Subsequently, the semiconductor dies may be singulated from the semiconductor wafer, whereupon the same resilient contact structures can be used to effect interconnections between the semiconductor dies and other electronic components (such as wiring substrates, semiconductor packages, etc.). Using the all-metallic composite interconnection elements of the present invention as the resilient contact structures, burn-in can be performed at temperatures of at least 150.degree. C., and can be completed in less than 60 minutes.
Abstract:
The efficacy of electrical discharges for severing bond wires and/or for forming balls at the ends of bond wires (including bond wires already severed by alternative mechanisms) is improved by performing the electrical discharges in the presence of ultraviolet light. A "spark gap" is formed between an EFO electrode and the wire, one of which serves as the cathode of the spark gap. Preferably, the ultraviolet light is directed at the element serving as the cathode of the spark gap. Providing photoemission at the cathode element of the spark gap stabilizes arc/plasma formation and produces more reliable and predictable results. This technique may be used in conjunction with negative EFO systems or with positive EFO systems, and may benefit from either direct or field-assisted photoemission.
Abstract:
An electrical connector comprises, an insulating body, electrically conductive posts projecting from the body and extending outwardly for insertion along apertures of a circuit board, each of said posts being one of three types, a first type having a protrusion adapted to engage a circuit board and prop the body to prevent the body from tipping over while the body is engaged against a circuit board, a second type having a retention feature tending to retain the body engaged against a circuit board, and a third type having neither said protrusion nor said retention feature.
Abstract:
A connector including an insulating main body through which numerous holes are formed in three arrays, the main body having numerous contactor pins inserted through the holes. The contactor pins are either first cranked pins whose folded portions are relatively long or second cranked pins whose folded portions are relatively short. In the first and third arrays, the first and second pins are alternately arranged, and all the pins in each of these arrays lie on the side of each array opposite the second array. The second array includes only the second pins and they are located in the second array arranged so that the folded portions of the pins alternately lie at the side of the first and third arrays. Even if the pitch of the holes of each array is reduced, an array of rectilinear portions of the second pins of increased pitch can be formed on both sides of the second array. The connector can be used with a socket having a standard contactor member when it is used in a back harness arrangement.
Abstract:
A connector for interconnecting circuitry on a ceramic substrate card with circuitry on a printed wiring board for use in a missile includes a plurality of wire leads, each one of the leads having a first end and a second end, is described. The connector also includes a first dielectric strip attached adjacent the first end of the loop of each one of the plurality of wire leads and a second dielectric strip attached adjacent the second end of the loop of each one of the plurality of wire leads. Stresses on each one of the plurality of wire leads resulting from different rates of movement between the interconnected circuitry are minimized, thus preventing the wire leads from fracturing.
Abstract:
A circuit board unit includes a substrate with imprinted circuit traces and components. A plurality of traces include connecting areas for connection to another trace area or to an external lead. An interconnect element is soldered to each area. Each element is an integral flat strip-like member bent into a substantial L-shape configuration. The element has a flat, square base plate with a control hole centrally located therein. A terminal leg is interconnected to the base plate by a smoothly curved portion and extends at right angles to the base plate and is aligned with the center of the hole. The outer end is a flat terminal having a pin-like projection. A solder paste on the trace has a configuration conforming to the base plate. The base plate is placed on the solder with a slight pressure. Upon melting of the solder, the hole essentially prevents floating of the element while the conformed plate and paste area align the plate on the solder area as a result of surface tension and wetting effect. The interconnect elements are formed as a series of stamped flat blanks, connected on one edge by a strap having indexing openings for automated movement from a reel supply. The blanks are advanced into a pneumatic forming machine, where it is formed and removed from the strap. A placement head grasps the terminal end of the formed element and places it onto the solder pad. The substrate moves through a reflow soldering unit to solder the interconnect element to the substrate trace. The substrate is placed in a housing with the element abutting an exterior terminal for automated pinch welding.