Electricity: conductors and insulators – Conduits – cables or conductors – Preformed panel circuit arrangement
Patent
1995-01-26
1996-04-02
Thomas, Laura
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Conduits, cables or conductors
Preformed panel circuit arrangement
174262, 174263, 174260, 257738, 439 83, 361768, 361760, H05K 118
Patent
active
055042775
ABSTRACT:
An array of closely spaced uniform solder balls located on a substrate of an electronic module and electrically connected with terminals of circuitry, to connect the module to a complementary array of terminals as on a printed circuit board. The array is fabricated by preparing an array of terminal pads on the substrate, perforating a sheet of dielectric tape to create precise and uniform holes, and thereafter fusing the tape onto the substrate so that the holes are aligned over the substrate's terminal pads. Solder balls, each having a uniformly larger diameter than the respective hole, are then placed in the holes and heated to reflow them, so that a small part of each solder ball fills the volume defined by a hole in the dielectric tape and bonds to the terminal pad of the substrate within the hole, while the remainder of the solder ball remains generally spherical above the dielectric tape.
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Pacific Microelectronics Corporation
Thomas Laura
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