Abstract:
A curved lead provides a mechanical and electrical connection between a board contact on a circuit board and a chip contact associated with a circuit chip. The chip can be mounted to the circuit board, to a chip carrier or to a multiple-chip module. The curved lead is substantially entirely plated with solder and is formed of a single piece of conductive material. The curved lead has a first surf ace for connection to the chip contact and a second surface, generally parallel to the first surface, for connection to the board contact. The first and second surfaces are connected by at least one curved portion and are arranged to mount the circuit chip to the circuit board with the solder in a compliant, generally parallel arrangement substantially free of stress.
Abstract:
Thermally reactive lead assemblies and electronic circuits are provided which include a solderable, conductive metallic element having a first configuration at ambient temperature and a second expanded configuration at an elevated temperature, such as at soldering temperatures. The second configuration of the conductive metallic element provides electrical continuity between a pair of soldering locations of the electronic circuit, such as between a semiconductor device lead and a conductive surface on a printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A lead wire array for a leadless chip carrier which functions to mount and electrically interconnect a leadless chip carrier to a printed wiring board. The array is formed from a length of bare wire which is appropriately folded and bent to provide interconnections between the contact pads on the leadless chip carrier and contact pads on the printed wiring board, which are then separated by removing portions of the lead wire array after its attachment to the leadless chip carrier.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for interconnecting circuit board assemblies using memory metal wires mechanically inserted into through-plated holes. The invention has its application in the interconnection of stacked circuit board assemblies where kinked memory metal wires are stretched so the wires are substantially straight; inserted into axially aligned through-plated holes of circuit boards; and released so that the memory metal wires reform their original kinked shaped within the through-plated holes, forming an electrical connection between the circuit boards. Memory metal alloys are used in the construction of the kinked memory metal wires to take advantage of the pseudoelastic behavior of the alloys in the austenitic phase below the forming temperature range.
Abstract:
In the inventive electronic parts, external leads are installed at a board on which a multilayer capacitor is mounted, external leads being electrically connected with terminal electrodes of the capacitor through conductors which are provided on the board. And therefore it is possible to easily fabricate the capacitor into an electric device in three-dimensions through the external leads.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for interconnecting electronic circuits using nearly pure soft annealed gold mechanically compressed within through-plated holes. The invention has its application in attaching integrated circuit dice directly to circuit boards by ball bonding gold wires to the bonding pads of the integrated circuit dice in a substantially perpendicular relationship to the surfaces of the dice and inserting the gold leads into through-plated holes of circuit boards which provide an electrical and a mechanical connection once the leads are compressed within the through-plated holes. The present invention also finds its application in the interconnection of sandwiched circuit board assemblies where soft gold lead wires are inserted into axially aligned through-plated holes of the circuit boards and compressed so that the hold lead wires compress and buckle within the through-plated holes, forming an electrical connection between the circuit boards.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for interconnecting electronic circuits using nearly pure soft annealed gold mechanically compressed within through-plated holes. The invention has its application in attaching integrated circuit dice directly to circuit boards by ball bonding gold wires to the bonding pads of the integrated circuit dice in a substantially perpendicular relationship to the surfaces of the disc and inserting the gold leads into through-plated holes of circuit boards which provide an electrical and a mechanical connection once the leads are compressed within the through-plated holes. The present invention also finds its application in the interconnection of sandwiched circuit board assemblies where soft gold lead wires are inserted into axially aligned through-plated holes of the circuit boards and compressed so that the gold lead wires compress and buckle within the through-plated holes, forming an electrical connection between the circuit boards.
Abstract:
A complex circuit component for a video signal circuit in a television receiver set has a single substrate, on which a first ceramic trap for removing speech carrier wave together with an inductor for that trap, a second trap for removing color subcarrier wave, and a delay circuit coupled with output of said second trap are mounted. The capacitors for those circuits are implemented by a pair of conductive patterns deposited on front surface and rear surface of the substrate. The capacitor for said first ceramic trap is subject to trimming so that the characteristics of the trap is adjustable.
Abstract:
An electric component part has its lead terminals bent in thickness directions in a middle section thereof at least two positions so that a step section virtually in parallel to the bottom of a circuit substrate is formed with the intention of absorbing the external force applied to the part by chaging the shape of the lead terminals. Increase in the part layout area due to the formation of the horizontal step section can be avoided, when necessary, by shifting the terminal lead out position on the component part inward thereby to minimize the jetty dimensions.
Abstract:
A multiple layer connection system for compactly connecting a plurality of surface mount integrated circuit packages to a printed circuit board is disclosed. A plurality of staggered metal legs is respectively inserted into a plurality of slots formed along an edge of an intermediate plastic sheet. A first outside sheet and a second outside sheet sandwich the intermediate sheet between themselves. The first outside sheet has a plurality of foil conductors formed on an inside layer thereof to connect with a first portion of the staggered legs. A plurality of feed through holes are in electrical connection with the first conductive traces and with a plurality of first outside foil traces which are connectable by soldering to the legs of a surface mount integrated circuit package. A second plurality of inside foil traces is formed on an inside layer of the second plastic sheet and contacts a second group of the legs. A second plurality of feed through holes connects the second plurality of inside foil to a second plurality of outside foil traces formed on an outside layer of the second sheet. A second integrated circuit surface mount device is connectable by soldering to the second plurality of outside conductive traces.