Abstract:
An electronic apparatus includes a first electronic part with a first terminal, a second electronic part with a second terminal opposite the first terminal, and a joining portion which joins the first terminal and the second terminal. The joining portion contains a pole-like compound extending in a direction in which the first terminal and the second terminal are opposite to each other. The joining portion contains the pole-like compound, so the strength of the joining portion is improved. When the first terminal and the second terminal are joined, the temperature of one of the first electronic part and the second electronic part is made higher than that of the other. A joining material is cooled and solidified in this state. By doing so, the pole-like compound is formed.
Abstract:
Systems and techniques are provided for a co-located NFC reader. A top conductive layer may include an inner PCB section, including a circuit for an electronic device, and an outer PCB section, including a near-field communications (NFC) chipset, separated by a gap in which an NFC antenna connected to the NFC chipset may be located. A substrate layer may include an inner PCB section and an outer PCB section separated by the gap. A bridge including a trace may cross the gap. A lower conductive layer may include an inner PCB section, including a circuit for the electronic device electrically connected to the circuit for the electronic device located on the inner PCB section of the top conductive layer, and an outer PCB section, including a circuit for the electronic device, separated by the gap.
Abstract:
Described are apparatuses for modular printed circuit boards (PCB) and methods for producing modular PCBs. An apparatus may include a first PCB module with a first pattern of routing structures on one or more layers of the first PCB module. The apparatus may further include a second PCB module with a second pattern of routing structures on one or more layers of the second PCB module. The second pattern of routing structures may be aligned with and electrically coupled to the first pattern of routing structures without connectors. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
Abstract:
A portable electronic device packaged into a System-in-Package assembly is disclosed. The portable electronic device can include a substrate and a plurality of components mounted on the substrate and included in one or more subsystems. Interference between subsystems or from external sources can be reduced or eliminated by disposing an insulating layer over the components, forming narrow trenches between subsystems, and conformally coating the insulating layer and trenches with a metal shielding layer. In some examples, trenches between subsystems can be formed using a laser source. In some examples, trenches between subsystems can have angled walls. In some examples, the metal shielding layer can be formed using at least one of electroplating, electroless plating, chemical vapor deposition, and physical vapor deposition.
Abstract:
A wiring substrate includes a core layer having a hole penetrating therethrough in a thickness direction thereof, and having a projecting part projecting from an inner wall of the hole toward an inner space of the hole, the projecting part being situated at a border that divides a plurality of areas in the hole, a plurality of electronic components disposed in the areas, respectively, the electronic components being arranged at a spaced interval with the projecting part therebetween, and a resin layer filling the hole and supporting the electronic components, wherein a thickness of the projecting part in the thickness direction of the core layer decreases toward a tip of the projecting part.
Abstract:
A printed wiring board includes a first insulating layer, a first conductor layer formed on a surface of the first insulating layer and including first pads, and a wiring structure including a second conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer laminated on the second conductor layer, a third conductor layer formed on the second insulating layer, and formed through the second insulating layer. The second conductor layer includes second pads formed on the first insulating layer, the third conductor layer includes third pads formed on the second insulating layer, the via conductors are positioned such that the via conductors are connecting the second pads and the third conductor layer, and the wiring structure is formed such that the second conductor layer and third conductor layer are not electrically connected to the first conductor layer.
Abstract:
An electronic device includes a multilayer substrate including a plurality of layers of conductors. The multilayer substrate has a first region and a second region divided in a planar direction of the multilayer substrate. The first region is provided with a main circuit that realizes a predetermined function. The second region is provided to have an additional circuit for adding a function to the predetermined function therein. The first region includes a first wiring for electrically connecting the main circuit to the additional circuit and a connecting portion disposed at an end of the first region adjacent to the second region and extending in the multilayer substrate to correspond to all of the conductors layered to electrically connect the first wiring to any of the conductors. The main circuit is connectable with the additional circuit through the first wiring and the connecting portion.
Abstract:
An electronic control device for executing fundamental and additional functions includes: a fundamental circuit element that executes the fundamental function; an additional circuit element that executes the additional function; and a printed wiring board having a rectangular shape divided into first and second regions. The fundamental circuit element is mounted in the first region, and the additional circuit element is mounted in the second region. The fundamental circuit element includes an operation voltage generating circuit for supplying an operation voltage to at least a part of the fundamental and additional circuit elements and a bypass capacitor for functioning for the additional circuit element. The bypass capacitor is connected to a power source wiring pattern for supplying the operation voltage to the additional circuit element. The bypass capacitor is arranged in the first region at a position nearer the second region than the operation voltage generating circuit.
Abstract:
In an electronic control unit, high-heat-generating devices are mounted on a first surface or a second surface of a board, a heat-dissipating member is located facing the first surface of the board, and a heat-conducting member is located between the board and the heat-dissipating member. The heat-conducting member is in contact with the high-heat-generating devices to transfer heat of the high-heat-generating devices to the heat-dissipating member. A ratio of the number of the high-heat-generating devices mounted on the board to the number of the high-heat-generating devices arranged inside a first limited region of the first surface or a second limited region of the second surface is greater than a predetermined ratio. The second limited region is located at a position corresponding to the first limited region.
Abstract:
A signal level crossing detector circuit includes a DC isolator and a detector circuit. The DC isolator has at least a first input, which is operable to receive a high voltage AC signal, and at least a first capacitor, a first plate of the first capacitor being electrically connected to the first input. The detector circuit is operable at a low voltage and has at least a first detector input, the first detector input being electrically connected to a second plate of the first capacitor, the low voltage detector circuit being operable to provide a change in output signal in dependence on a high voltage AC signal on the first input crossing a predetermined signal level. The signal level crossing detector may be single ended or differential.