Abstract:
A circuit substrate for attachment to an integrated circuit chip comprises an electrical trace, a mounting pad and a dielectric layer. The mounting pad has a first surface, one or more sidewalls and a second surface. The first surface is attached to the electrical trace. The dielectric layer substantially covers the one or more sidewalls of the mounting pad and has an uppermost surface that is substantially coplanar with the second surface of the mounting pad.
Abstract:
This adaptable humeral implant comprises an anchoring stem (1, 8) and a male insert (6) or a female insert (30, 31) which are able to cooperate with the glenoid cavity or a glenoid implant. It additionally comprises a removable support (5) intended to fit directly or indirectly to the upper end (3) of the anchoring stem (1, 8) and to cooperate with an intermediate neck (7), which is itself provided with means for cooperation with the male or female implant.
Abstract:
This invention is a simple and effective process of producing a plastic pin grid array package having an encapsulated device and a heat sink forming a unitary component of a main planar body of the package. The process includes fabrication of a laminated planar main body having outer plastic sheets provided with metallizations, a metal sheet of high thermal conductivity, and plastic sheets positioned intermediate the outer plastic sheets and the metal sheet, the metal sheet having clearance holes filled with plugs of the material of the intermediate plastic sheets, a plurality of plated-through holes (PTHs) formed in the main body and terminal pins secured in the PTHs. Some of the PTHs contacting the metal sheet and some passing through the plugs in the clearance holes out of contact with the metal sheet. The device, such as an integrated circuit chip, mounted in a recessed cavity in the main body, is in contact with the metal heat-sink. In this manner heat is conducted away from the device by the heat sink and dissipated through the back of the package and those of the terminal pins which are in PTHs contacting the heat sink.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit package is processed by electroplating the integrated circuit package. The electroplating is performed without forming plating traces on a conductive surface of a pad side of the integrated circuit package. Pad areas of the integrated circuit package are thus plated with one or more materials. An integrated circuit may be electrically coupled to pad areas on the integrated circuit package. The integrated circuit package can be electroplated by using the one or more current sources coupled to a back plane of the integrated circuit package. The back plane is patterned, wherein the patterning of the back plane occurs after the step of electroplating.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit package where the integrated circuit chip is mounted on a conductive slug and electrically coupled to the slug. Besides acting as a heat spreader, the conductive slug may also function as a ground plane. This reduces the need for additional conductive layers and plated through hole connections for forming connections to, for example, ground. As a result, the conductive paths in the internal ground planes are not necessarily cut off by the plated through holes used for interconnecting ground connections thus avoiding some of the electrical performance degradation suffered by prior techniques. In addition, the invention allows more signals to be added and/or the size of the integrated circuit chip to be reduced to enhance electrical performance. It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, but are not restrictive, of the invention.
Abstract:
A pad grid array plastic package includes a laminated plastic body with a centrally located cavity, an IC unit secured within the cavity, and an encapsulating organic polymer, such as epoxy, enclosing the cavity. The laminated body includes a substrate and a structural member on top of the substrate and having a centrally located aperture forming the cavity. The substrate is provided with metal patterns on both planar surfaces thereof, through-plated vias electrically connecting the metal patterns, and a grid array of contact pads on the bottom surface of the substrate, electrically connected to the metal pattern. The structural member provides strength and rigidity to the laminate and is sufficiently thick to enable protection of the IC unit when the cavity is enclosed with the encapsulating polymer. Also disclosed is a method of making the package and a laminate with the cavity, metal patterns and grid pad array for use in assembling the package.
Abstract:
A housed integrated circuit unit package is provided with a heat sink for removal and dissipation of heat from electronic circuits housed in packages. The heat sink, mounted on an outer surface of the package, includes a plurality of pins secured at one end with a retainer and flared out at the other end into a starburst or bouquet configuration, the pins being in the form of rods selected from solid cylinders and tubes. The bottom of the retainer-bound end is coated with a securing substance, such as solder or a heat-conducting adhesive, which is planarized to facilitate positioning of the heat sink on the package. The heat sink is secured to the package by means of solder or a heat-conducting adhesive. The heat sink is produced by securing a plurality of elongated rods by retainers placed at intervals corresponding to a height of the heat sink, cutting off said rods adjacent to one side of the retainer, and flaring the rods at the other free end of the cut-off rods into a starburst-like configuration. The retained ends of the rods are dipped into a solder or heat-conducting adhesive and planarized to provide a planar surface for mounting the heat sink on the surface of the package.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit package uses an encapsulant frame which prevents the encapsulant used to seal the integrated circuit chip from the ambient atmosphere from flowing to unwanted areas and to permit the encapsulant to be deposited with a controllable depth.