Electricity: electrical systems and devices – Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical... – For electronic systems and devices
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-10
2001-09-04
Picard, Leo P. (Department: 2835)
Electricity: electrical systems and devices
Housing or mounting assemblies with diverse electrical...
For electronic systems and devices
C361S704000, C361S707000, C174S016300, C174S252000, C165S080300, C165S185000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06285553
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a mounting structure for an LSI suitable for use in mounting a bare LSI chip on a printed circuit board.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, a bare LSI (Large Scale Integrated Circuit) chip was mounted on a substrate having a thermal expansion coefficient relatively close to that of the chip, e.g., on a ceramic substrate (its thermal expansion coefficient is within the range of 7 to 9 ppm). In recent years, however, for the purpose of lowering prices, there has been established the technology of mounting a bare LSI chip on a build-up substrate employing a printed circuit board.
However, since the thermal expansion coefficients printed circuit boards is within the range of about 14 to about 16 ppm which is larger than those of ceramic substrates and also the printed circuit boards is softer than any of the ceramic substrates, when connecting an LSI to a printed circuit board, the reliability in connection backed by the temperature cycling tests and the like can not be ensured due to occurrence of the In the worst scenario, the LSI may be damaged cases.
Then, while there has been adopted the technique of filling the gap defined between an LSI and a printed circuit board with resin to integrate the LSI and the printed circuit board with each other in order to ensure the connection reliability, in this case as well, there are many limits in terms of materials of resin, the size of an LSI and the like.
In particular, when the size of an LSI is increased, the difference in the thermal expansion coefficient between the LSI and the printed circuit board is large though the LSI and the printed circuit board are integrated with each other by filling the gap defined therebetween with resin, and hence the occurrence of the warpage due to the bimetal effect can not be prevented. When the warpage occurs, this exerts a bad influence on the connection reliability of the LSI, and also if the warpage exerts an influence on the overall printed circuit board, then this will exert in turn a bad influence on the reliability of other components.
In addition, since the amount of calorification is increased when the size of the LSI is increased, a heat sink is required. However, since the printed circuit board itself is thin and does not have the durability enough to support the heat sink, which is heavy for the printed circuit board, it is impossible to apply any of good way of heat sinking the printed circuit board.
Heretofore, while there has been known the method of fixing a heat sink employing the stiffener on the rear face of the printed circuit board in order to fix the heat sink such as an LGA (Land Grid Array) or a BGA, it is impossible to obtain the sufficient effect.
In the light of the foregoing, the present invention was made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems associated with the prior art, and it is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a mounting structure for an LSI mounting, which structure is capable of removing any of the disadvantages as described above to improve the reliability in connection between an LSI and a printed circuit board and capable of holding a heat sink without any of difficulties.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a mounting structure for an LSI which comprises: a first frame and a second frame. The first frame is for mounting and supporting a printed circuit board along a periphery of the printed circuit board, which carries the LSI. The LSI can be mounted to the circuit board with a solder. The second frame is for supporting the printed circuit board surrounding the LSI and fixing to the first frame. The printed circuit board is positioned between the first and second frames when the second frame is fixed to the first frame. The second frame has a stiffener that supports the printed circuit board at least around the LSI when the second frame is fixed to the first frame.
The second frame is provided with fixing means for fixing a heat sink for cooling the LSI.
The printed circuit board is a thin build-up substrate.
The second frame is provided with a plurality of supporting bars extending from the stiffener. The distal ends of the supporting bars can be fixed to the first frame along the periphery of the circuit board. The first frame can include a recess for accommodating the printed circuit board so that the periphery of the circuit board is seated in the first frame.
The fixing means are comprised of screws.
The first and second frames are each made of hard metal.
The present invention also includes a combination of the above-described LSI, the circuit board, and the mounting structure.
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Ikeda Hironobu
Suyama Takayuki
Chervinsky Boris L.
Foley & Lardner
NEC Corporation
Picard Leo P.
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