Abstract:
The invention concerns a multi-layer foil printed circuit board which comprises rigid areas (s) and flexible areas (f) and has more foil layers in the rigid areas than in the flexible areas. The foil printed circuit board is produced by removal of at least the outermost foil layer (1.2) or reduction of its thickness by etching at least on one side in the flexible areas (f) provided. By appropriate configuration of the etching mask, the flexible areas (f) can be made to merge continuously into rigid areas (s) as a result of less material being removed from the layers in the edge areas (u) than in the centre (z) of the flexible area (f), so that the flexible areas do not have any edge areas tending to kink. The flexible areas can be etched in the same step as the etching of the through-plating holes in the corresponding foil layer (1.2) or in a separating etching step.
Abstract:
The invention relates to multi-layer printed circuit boards, film printed circuit boards and semi-finished products for printed circuit films and a process for their production, with through-plating (12) structured in insulator layers (2), structured apertures (4, 4') in cover layers (A, A') of the surfaces (O, O'), current tracks (SP) structured in conductive layers and contact points (K, K'). To reduce the number of photochemical structuration operations required, the through-plating (12) and the cover apertures (4, 4') are mechanically structured in that pre-formed through-plating apertures (10, 10') are etched in insulating layers (2) in accordance with through-plating structures (8, 8') of masking films (7, 7'), electrically conductive substances are deposited in the through-plating apertures (10, 10') to form contact layers (11) in said through-plating apertures (10) and apertures (4, 4') are etched in accordance with contact structures (3, 3') of masking films (7, 7') in cover layers (A, A') in such a way that the apertures (4, 4') form cover-material-free regions on the printed circuit boards and film printed circuit boards and on the semi-finished products for such printed circuit boards and the apertures (4, 4') are freely shaped so as to be cylindrical, round, oval, square, rectangular or polygonal.
Abstract:
The initial intention in the semi-finished product of the invention is to provide a functional separation between the requirement for mechanical strength and the previously concomitant requirement, for completing a circuit, in order to bring the pure circuit connection, especially for signals, "closer" to the electrical and technical properties of chips. To do this, the layout miniaturisation is optimised without regard for the mechanical strength of the substrate. Instead of a printed circuit board (MCM), a semi-finished product which can be developed into a printed circuit board is made. The semi-finished product of the invention consists of an extremely thin film (8) with a plurality of extremely small holes (14) made simultaneously by an etching process. The hole diameters can be reduced by almost an order of magnitude (down to 20 mu m), facilitating, for instance, definite sub-100 mu m technology. Such a semi-finished product (19) does not act as a mechanical support but is designed only for signal conduction. The semi-finished product (19) which carries the densely packed wiring pattern, is bonded to a not densely packed power supply plane (22) acting as the service plane and the printed circuit board thus made is finally secured to a mechanical support (20).
Abstract:
Foil printed circuit boards or semi-finished products for foil printed circuit boards are produced from virtually continuous foil material. The individual units produced remain interconnected by predetermined folding points so that they can be processed in the form of a folded length of material and permanently or temporarily stored in the form of a folded stack. Pieces of foil material can also exist in the form of folded lengths as a result of the fact that the individual units are interconnected in a foldable manner by flexible connections. The predetermined folding points (SK) in the almost continuous foil material comprising one or more foil layers (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) are produced by locally weakened points in the material, consisting of interruptions or reductions in the thickness of at least one of the foil layers (1.2). These weakened points are produced in the same etching steps in which perforated structures (3, 4, 5, 6) for particular functions are produced.
Abstract:
The process for producing subsequently contactable contact points between two conductive track planes on a circuit substrate separated by an electrically insulating layer makes it possible to produce, for example, a basic conductor pattern which can subsequently be easily adapted to requirements. By laying windows in the conductive track planes out in such a way that, when the electrically insulating layer is subsequently through-etched due to under-etching, rod-like parts connected to the aperture periphery are revealed between or in the apertures which can be brought into contact with electrically conductive parts of the other conductive track plane, these conductive tracks can be electrically interconnected by mechanical bending.
Abstract:
A process is disclosed for manufacturing printed circuit boards, printed circuit foils and semifinished products for printed circuit boards and printed circuit foils from blanks with electroconductive layers (7, 8) that may be structured into conductive patterns and substrates (4) that may be structured for forming connecting means (V), profiles (K) and conductive patterns (L). The connecting means (V), profiles (K) and conductive patterns (L) are structured at the same time or in the same process steps on the blanks. The connecting means (V) and the profiles (K) are part of the structured substrate (4) of the blanks. The electric or mechanical connecting means (V) are placed in a position in which they may be connected and the finished conductive patterns (L) may be detached around the profiles (K).
Abstract:
In the process of the invention for the production of multi-layer film printed circuit boards from semi-finished products (A), with current paths (B) structured in electrically conductive layers (1, 3) and with electrically conductive plating (C, D) from conductive layer (1) to conductive layer (3) through an insulating layer (2), or for the production of semi-finished items for such foil printed circuit boards, in initial steps in the process a structuring agent (7, 7', 13) is applied in a controlled fashion locally to the semi-finished item (A) and cover layers (8, 9) are applied to the surface of the semi-finished item (A). The structuring agent (7, 7', 13) is either applied to the cover layers (8, 9) which are then locally removed or the cover layers (8, 9) are applied to structuring agents (7, 7', 13) and in a further step the structuring agent (7, 7', 13) applied is removed leaving apertures (10, 10') in the cover layers (8, 9) extending as far as the insulating layer (2). In a further step, through or blind holes (11, 11') are locally etched into the insulating layer (2) at the location of the appertures (10, 10') and, to produce electrically conductive plating (C, D), electrically conductive deposition substances (12) are deposited in the through or blind holes (11, 11').
Abstract:
According to a process for producing a thermal layout, not only massive heat sinks are provided for absorbing heat, but also an optimized number of thermoconductive strips which distribute the heat over the printed circuit board. In the collecting zones are arranged higher capacity sinks into which the heat is transmitted. The thermoconductive strips may be thermoconductors (TL) provided for that purpose and more massive than the conductive strips for the electric connections, or conductive strips for electric connections, the electroconductors (EL), may also be used for heat transfer. An optimum design interconnects the TL'S and EL's into a functional whole, a thermal management network. With a certain technique, which could be called pocket groove technique, "cooling channels" of a type may be created. Such thermoconductors may be included in the electric layout, so that a thermal layout is superimposed on the connection layout (TL/EL network). Heat distribution and transfer may thus be calculated and optimized by a computer in the same way as the electric distribution by the conductive strips, i.e. the known electric layout, which is produced by a computer-assisted process.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for making printed circuit boards from semi-finished foil products (F.2/6/6'/6") in which at least two semi-finished foil products (F.2/6/6'/6") are bonded together under pressure and temperature via at least two viscous insulating layers (2, 7) which are physically different from each other in that one insulating layer (7) does not melt to liquid form and acts as a spacer, the other insulating layer (2) melts to liquid form during bonding and acts as a bonding agent, a bonding semi-finished foil product (F.2/6/6'/6") with insulating layers (2, 7) is used therefor and spacing insulating layers (7) are applied to conductive layers (1) and bonding insulating layers (2) are applied to spacing insulating layers (7).
Abstract:
The proposed method of producing multifunctional multilayered connection substrates involves the following: the connection substrate is built up function by function from the various components, i.e. signal conducting substrate components (19), power supply substrate components (2), thermal substrate components (20), mechanical substrate components (7), and the arrangement of the components (4) and component-bearing substrate components as interdependent functions or modules, are designed and optimised separately before finally being assigned to spatially separated functional areas (inner/outer) of the circuit. The construction process involves connecting the modules to a circuit which forms the connection substrate. The substrate components with fine, compact, flexible and cool elements are assigned to the inner areas of the circuit, while those substrate components with coarse, rigid and warm elements and/or components are assigned to the outer areas of the circuit; a stiffening support material is applied in the outer area in such a way as to give the circuit a mechanical support structure which is designed to have rigid sections which merge into flexible sections. The circuit can be folded and/or wound according to the rigid and flexible sections. The mechanical support structure can be formed by separately manufactured device housing components or by the device housing.