Abstract: A package substrate is provided, which includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of circuit layers alternately stacked with the dielectric layers. At least two of the circuit layers have a difference in thickness so as to prevent warpage of the substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an embedded electronic component which can improve reliability of connection with external wiring and efficiency of an embedding process by including: a contact pad provided on at least one surface of a body portion and made of a conductive material; a first insulating layer for covering the at least one surface of the body portion; a first pad in contact with a surface of the contact pad and made of a conductive material; a rearrangement portion provided on a surface of the first insulating layer to be in contact with the first pad; a second pad provided on the surface of the first insulating layer to be in contact with the rearrangement portion; and a second insulating layer having an opening to expose a portion of the second pad while covering the first insulating layer, the first pad, the rearrangement portion, and the second pad.

Abstract: A display panel includes a display configured to display an image by receiving a drive signal, and a pad region including first and second pads groups configured to receive the drive signal from an external and to provide the received drive signal to the display, wherein the first pad group includes a plurality of first pads extending along a plurality of first imaginary lines, wherein the second pad group includes a plurality of second pads extending along a plurality of second imaginary lines, and wherein the plurality of first imaginary lines converges into a first point and the plurality of second imaginary lines converges into a second point, the first point and the second point are located at different positions.

Abstract: An electronic device includes: a case; a switch; an operation button; a press portion that projects out from a length direction central portion of a button back face on a switch side of the operation button; a bearing portion that is provided along a length direction of the operation button inside the case, and that faces the button back face; and a stopper rib that projects out from the button back face, that is disposed along the length direction of the operation button at one side in a transverse direction of the operation button relative to the press portion, that faces the bearing portion, and that has a projection length from the button back face at a length direction end portion side of the operation button that is shorter than a projection length from the button back face at a length direction central portion of the operation button.

Abstract: Electrical components such as integrated circuits and other components may be mounted on a substrate such as a printed circuit substrate. A molded plastic cap may cover the components and a portion of the printed circuit substrate to form a packaged electrical device. Metal structures such as springs, posts, and other metal members may be insert molded within the plastic cap. A metal layer on the surface of the cap may be patterned to from electromagnetic shielding, signal paths, contact pads, sensor electrodes, antennas, and other structures. Multiple substrates each with a respective set of mounted electrical components may be joined using a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may be covered with a rigid cap portion or an elastomeric material or may be left uncovered.

Abstract: A flexible device includes a first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern, and a dielectric layer. The first conductive pattern includes a first sliding contact portion and a first extension portion. The second conductive pattern includes a second sliding contact portion overlapping with the first sliding contact portion and the second conductive pattern includes a second extension portion. The second sliding contact portion is in contact with the first sliding contact portion and is movable on the first sliding contact portion for a sliding motion. The first and second conductive patterns are embedded in the dielectric layer.

Abstract: A wiring board has an insulation base plate, and a plurality of electrodes provided adjacent to each other in plan view on the insulation base plate, the electrodes have an opening in the outer periphery and a slit oriented from the outer periphery to the interior, and, among two electrodes adjacent to each other, the slit in one electrode has a central line intersecting the outer periphery of the other electrode.

Abstract: A display device includes a flexible display panel for displaying an image, and a printed circuit board electrically connected with the flexible display panel through a circuit film. The printed circuit board may include a plurality of boards in a stack, the boards being respectively provided with integrated circuits, driving chips, and circuit wires, and a conducting portion connecting circuit wires of at least two boards among the plurality of boards.

Abstract: An electronics assembly includes one or more electronic components coupled to a fabric. Each electronic component includes one or more electrical connection points, such as a bond pad or solder bump. The electronics assembly also includes one or more electrically conductive wire cloths, one electrically conductive wire cloth coupled to one electrical connection point on an electronic component. The electrically conductive wire cloth is stitched to the fabric by an electrically conductive wire, thereby providing an electrical connection between the electronic component and the electrically conductive wire via the electrically conductive wire cloth.

Abstract: A composite substrate has a rigid substrate that includes: a core layer, a first laminated layer on a first surface of the core layer, and a second laminated layer on a second surface of the core layer, the rigid substrate having a cutout in the core layer and the second laminated layer on one side face of the rigid substrate; and a flexible substrate inserted into the cutout in the rigid substrate on the one side face and laterally and externally protruding from the one side face of the rigid substrate, wherein the rigid substrate has opposing walls each constituted of the second laminated layer and the core layer erected on the first laminated layer to define inner side faces, respectively, of the cutout so as to accommodate the flexible substrate in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the side face of the rigid substrate extends.

Abstract: An electronic component housing package and the like capable of reducing time of infrared heating operation are provided. An electronic component housing package includes an insulating substrate including a plurality of insulating layers stacked on top of each other, an upper surface of the insulating substrate being provided with an electronic component mounting section. The plurality of insulating layers each containing a first metal oxide as a major constituent. The insulating substrate further includes a first metal layer in frame-like form disposed on an upper surface of an uppermost one of the plurality of insulating layers. The first metal layer contains a second metal oxide which is higher in infrared absorptivity than the first metal oxide.

Abstract: Buffer structures are provided that can be used to reduce a strain in a conformable electronic system that includes compliant components in electrical communication with more rigid device components. The buffer structures are disposed on, or at least partially embedded in, the conformable electronic system such that the buffer structures overlap with at least a portion of a junction region between a compliant component and a more rigid device component. The buffer structure can have a higher value of Young's modulus than an encapsulant of the conformable electronic system.

Abstract: Embedding a discrete electrical device in a printed circuit board (PCB) includes: providing a vertical via as a blind hole from a horizontal surface of the PCB to an electrically conductive structure in a first layer, the first layer being one layer of a first core section of a plurality of core sections vertically arranged above each other, each core section including lower and upper conductive layers, and a non-conductive layer in between; inserting the electrical device into the via, with the device extending within at least two of the core sections; establishing a first electrical connection between a first electrical device contact device and the electrically conductive structure in the first layer; and establishing a second electrical connection between a second electrical device contact and a second layer, the second layer being one of the electrically conductive layers of a second horizontal core section.

Abstract: An electrical board-to-board connector including a flexible cable assembly having a low profile or dimensionally reduced configuration. The connector body of a cable assembly may be widened to provide the structural rigidity sufficient to support an array of solder lead connections. Other support elements may be omitted from the cable assembly, which results in a reduced height dimension. The flexible cable assembly may also include a cowling used to retain the cable assembly against a circuit board. The cowling may also be configured to reduce the dimensions or dimensional footprint of the connection.

Abstract: A layout method applied to a connector is provided. The connector is electrically connected between a flexible printed circuit (FPC) and a printed circuit board (PCB). The FPC includes M pairs of differential lines and X shield lines. The PCB includes M pairs of differential lines and Z shield lines. The layout method includes following steps. Firstly, M pairs of conductive lines are disposed on the connector. The M conductive lines are correspondingly electrically connected to the M differential lines of the FPC and the M differential lines of the PCB. Then; Y conductive lines are disposed on the connector, wherein Y is smaller than X. Furthermore, at least one of the Y conductive lines is electrically connected to at least one of the X shield lines and at least one of the Z shield lines.

Abstract: Examples herein include modules and connections for modules to couple to a computing device. An example module includes a housing comprising an end to couple to a computing device, multiple capacitive pads that each include data contacts to enable data transfer, a power contact pad to provide or receive power, and a ground contact pad to couple to ground. The ground contact pad is larger in size than the power contact pad, and the ground contact pad is positioned closer than the power contact pad to the end of the housing configured to couple to the computing device.

Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a first substrate and an electronic component mounted on an upper surface of the first substrate. A first pad is formed on an uppermost wiring layer of the first substrate. A connection terminal is formed on the electronic component and is located proximate to the first pad in a plan view. The wiring substrate further includes a connection member formed on the first pad to electrically connect the first pad and the connection terminal. The connection member includes a rod-shaped core and a solder layer, which is coated around the core and joined to the first pad. The solder layer includes a bulge that spreads from the core of the connection member in a planar direction. The bulge is joined to the connection terminal of the electronic component.

Abstract: A split backplane for a telecommunication, networking, or computing device includes a power backplane comprising power connectors; a signal backplane comprising signal connectors, wherein the signal backplane is separate from the power backplane, and wherein one or more modules are adapted to selectively connect to the power connectors and the signal connectors simultaneously; and an alignment bar connected between the power backplane and the signal backplane for alignment and stiffening of the power backplane and the signal backplane together for signal integrity and to prevent connector pins from bending or failing between the one or more modules, the power connectors, and the signal connectors.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment provides a conductive connecting member, and a display device including the same, that includes a flexible elongated body and terminals formed at opposite ends of the body to be electrically connected to the body, wherein the body may include terminal areas in which the terminals are formed and a central area disposed between the terminal areas, and wherein two or more recess portions may be formed in edges of the body within the central area of the body.

Abstract: There is provided a wiring board capable of strengthening the bonding between an external terminal and a wiring of an external circuit board. A wiring board includes an insulating substrate having two main surfaces facing each other, side surfaces connecting to the two main surfaces and concave portions concave from the side surfaces and connecting to at least one of the two main surfaces; and external terminals disposed from one of the main surfaces to inner surfaces of the respective concave portions, each of the external terminals having a convex-shaped section disposed on one main surface side along each of the concave portions.