Capacitor And Electrical Component Patents (Class 361/763)
  • Patent number: 8937255
    Abstract: A method for electrically interconnecting two substrates, each having a corresponding set of preformed electrical contacts, the substrates comprising an electronic circuit, and the resulting module, is provided. A liquid curable adhesive is provided over the set of contacts of a first substrate, and the set of electrical contacts of the second substrate is aligned with the set of electrical contacts of the first substrate. The sets of electrical contacts of the first and second substrate are compressed to displace the liquid curable adhesive from the inter-contact region, and provide electrical communication between the respective sets of electrical contacts. The liquid curable adhesive is then cured to form a solid matrix which maintains a relative compression between the respective sets of electrical contacts. One embodiment of the module comprises a high-speed superconducting circuit which operates at cryogenic temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Hypres Inc.
    Inventor: Vladimir V. Dotsenko
  • Publication number: 20150016079
    Abstract: A wiring board includes a first resin insulation layer, an electronic component positioned on first surface of the first insulation layer, a second resin insulation layer formed on the first surface of the first insulation layer such that the second insulation layer is embedding the electronic component, a conductive layer formed on the second insulation layer, a third resin insulation layer formed on the conductive layer and second insulation layer, and a connection via conductor formed in the second insulation layer such that the connection via conductor is connecting electrode of the electronic component and conductive layer on the second insulation layer. The first insulation layer has a pad structure on second surface side of the first insulation layer on opposite side of the first surface, and the first insulation layer has coefficient of thermal expansion set lower than coefficients of thermal expansion of the second and third insulation layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiki FURUTANI, Takeshi FURUSAWA, Keisuke SHIMIZU, Yuichi NAKAMURA
  • Patent number: 8934257
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first coupler, and a second coupler. The first substrate is formed from a first material and includes an electrical pad. The second substrate is formed from a second material and includes an electrical pad. The first coupler is configured to mechanically couple the first substrate to the second substrate without a soldered connection. The second coupler includes a first end portion, configured to be soldered to the electrical pad of the first substrate, and a second end portion, configured to be soldered to the electrical pad of the second substrate. The second coupler configured to electrically couple the first substrate to the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Boris Reynov, Jack Kohn, Victor Mei, Shreeram Siddhaye, Ben Nitzan, Venkata Penmetsa
  • Patent number: 8923003
    Abstract: An electronic device may contain components such as flexible printed circuits and rigid printed circuits. Electrical contact pads on a flexible printed circuit may be coupled electrical contact pads on a rigid printed circuit using a coupling member. The coupling member may be configured to electrically couple contact pads on a top surface of the flexible circuit to contact pads on a top surface of the rigid circuit. The coupling member may be configured to bear against a top surface of the flexible circuit so that pads on a bottom surface of the flexible circuit rest against pads on a top surface of the rigid circuit. The coupling member may bear against the top surface of the flexible circuit. The coupling member may include protrusions that extend into openings in the rigid printed circuit. The protrusions may be engaged with engagement members in the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Schlaupitz, Joshua G. Wurzel
  • Patent number: 8923009
    Abstract: In a first conductive layer and a third conductive layer that are respectively closest to a core layer having a storage portion that penetrates therethrough, four first penetrating holes and four first penetrating holes are formed so as to overlap part of an opening edge of the storage portion that is projected onto the first conductive layer and the third conductive layer, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuro Sawatari, Yuichi Sugiyama, Hiroshi Nakamura, Masaki Naganuma, Tetsuo Saji
  • Patent number: 8907227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device with portions of the device on plural substrate surfaces. The device includes a low resistivity substrate having first and second surfaces with a first electrically-conductive device component disposed over a first surface. An intermediate electrically-insulating layer may be disposed between the electrically-conductive component and the low resistivity substrate. A second electrically-conductive component is disposed over the second surface of the low resistivity substrate. A cavity formed in the low resistivity substrate is at least partially filled with a high resistivity material. One or more electrically-conducting pathways are formed in the high resistivity material electrically connecting the first electrically conductive component and the second electrically-conductive component to form a device. Exemplary devices include inductors, capacitors, antennas and active or passive devices incorporating such devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hong Kong Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Ruonan Wang, Yan Liu, Song He, Tingting Wang
  • Patent number: 8908383
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods, and systems of thermal via structures with surface features. In some embodiments the surface features may have dimensions greater than approximately one micron. The thermal via structures may be incorporated into a substrate of an integrated circuit device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Tarak A. Railkar, Paul D. Bantz
  • Publication number: 20140347834
    Abstract: An electronic component embedded printed circuit board and a method for manufacturing the same. The printed circuit board includes: a core having a cavity formed therein; an electronic component unit embedded in the cavity, including a plurality of electronic components, and having a coating layer formed on an outer peripheral surface of the electronic component unit to fix the plurality of electronic components; and an insulating layer laminated at least on the top of the core. An outer layer circuit pattern may be formed on the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seok Kyu LEE, Takayuki HAZE, Soon Jin CHO
  • Patent number: 8891246
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a coreless substrate with an embedded die that is integral to the coreless substrate, and at least one device assembled on a surface that is opposite to a ball-grid array disposed on the coreless substrate. The apparatus may include an over-mold layer to protect the at least one device assembled on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: John S. Guzek, Vijay K. Nair
  • Patent number: 8891245
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a core substrate having a penetrating hole, a first conductive layer on a first surface of the substrate, a second conductive layer on a second surface of the substrate, a first electronic component having an electrode and accommodated in the hole such that the electrode faces the first surface, a first structure on the first surface and including a pad for mounting a second electronic component on the first structure and a via conductor connected to the electrode, and a second structure on the second surface. The electrode has an upper surface facing toward the first surface, the first layer has an upper surface facing away from the first surface, and the first component is positioned in the hole such that the upper surface of the electrode forms a gap with the upper surface of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: IBIDEN Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Furutani, Yukinobu Mikado, Mitsuhiro Tomikawa
  • Patent number: 8879276
    Abstract: An embedded device 105 is assembled within a flexible circuit assembly 30 with the embedded device mid-plane intentionally located in proximity to the flexible circuit assembly central plane 115 to minimize stress effects on the embedded device. The opening 18, for the embedded device, is enlarged in an intermediate layer 10 to enhance flexibility of the flexible circuit assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Power Gold LLC
    Inventor: James Jen-Ho Wang
  • Patent number: 8873245
    Abstract: An embedded chip-on-chip package includes a printed circuit board having a recessed semiconductor chip mounting unit constituted by a recess in the printed circuit board and a circuit pattern at the bottom of the recess, a first semiconductor chip embedded in the recessed semiconductor chip mounting unit and electrically connected to the circuit pattern at the bottom of the recess, and a second semiconductor chip mounted to the recessed semiconductor chip mounting unit and electrically connected to the first semiconductor chip and the printed circuit board independently of each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-hoon Kim, Hee-seok Lee
  • Patent number: 8867226
    Abstract: A MMIC having: a substrate; a plurality of active and passive electrical elements disposed on a top surface of the substrate; a plurality of coplanar waveguide transmission line sections disposed on the top surface of the substrate for electrically interconnecting the active and passive electrical elements; an electrical conductor disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate under the coplanar waveguide section. Edges of ground plane conductors of the coplanar waveguide (CPW) sections have slots therein in regions thereof connected to the active and passive devices. The design of such circuit includes mathematical models of the CPW with the pair of local ground planes and the strip conductor thereof have relatively narrow connectable ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Matthew C. Tyhach, Francois Y. Colomb
  • Patent number: 8867227
    Abstract: An electronic component is mounted on a circuit board. The electronic component includes: a lead frame including a fixed portion, a lead portion connected to the fixed portion, and a heat-dissipating portion connected to the fixed portion; a semiconductor chip fixed on the fixed portion by a first binder; and an encapsulation resin for encapsulating the fixed portion, the semiconductor chip, and a base portion of the lead portion. A groove is provided in the fixed portion and the heat-dissipating portion of the lead frame. The groove extends from a portion of the fixed portion where the first binder is present toward the heat-dissipating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Seiji Fujiwara
  • Patent number: 8861218
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally include using a large number of small MEMS devices to replace the function of an individual larger MEMS device or digital variable capacitor. The large number of smaller MEMS devices perform the same function as the larger device, but because of the smaller size, they can be encapsulated in a cavity using complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatible processes. Signal averaging over a large number of the smaller devices allows the accuracy of the array of smaller devices to be equivalent to the larger device. The process is exemplified by considering the use of a MEMS based accelerometer switch array with an integrated analog to digital conversion of the inertial response. The process is also exemplified by considering the use of a MEMS based device structure where the MEMS devices operate in parallel as a digital variable capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Cavendish Kinetics Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Gordon Smith, Richard L. Knipe, Vikram Joshi, Roberto Gaddi, Anartz Unamuno, Robertus Petrus Van Kampen
  • Patent number: 8861214
    Abstract: Substrates for integrated passive devices are described herein. Embodiments of the present invention provide substrates including a glass layer and at least one passive device disposed thereon. According to various embodiments of the present invention, the glass layer may have a thickness adapted to minimize conductive and/or other interactions between the substrate and the at least one passive device. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Albert Wu, Chuan-Cheng Cheng
  • Patent number: 8848386
    Abstract: In order to keep impedance characteristics to desired values across the entire operating frequency band, an electronic circuit of the present invention includes an integrated circuit, a decoupling capacitor, and a multilayer circuit board on which the integrated circuit and the decoupling capacitor are mounted. In the electronic circuit, a planar land is formed on one or both of a power layer and a ground layer of the multilayer circuit board, the land having densely disposed therein a plurality of via holes that connect a terminal of the integrated circuit and a corresponding terminal of the decoupling capacitor, and the land formed on the power layer or the ground layer is discontinuously disposed at a predetermined interval with a gap having a predetermined width provided therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Naofumi Kitano, Toshiro Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8848385
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reducing unwanted RF noise in a printed circuit board (PCB) containing an RF device. An isolation filter is embedded in a PCB containing an RDF device. By placing the isolation filter as close as possible to the RF device in order to dramatically reduce unwanted RF noise due to unavoidable coupling between Vias and planes in the PCB structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: R&D Sockets, Inc
    Inventors: Thomas P. Warwick, James V. Russell
  • Patent number: 8842440
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board includes forming an opening portion in a substrate, positioning chip capacitors in the opening portion of the substrate such that the chip capacitors are accommodated in the opening portion of the substrate, forming a buildup structure including an interlayer resin insulating layer and a conductive layer over a surface of the substrate and the chip capacitors accommodated in the opening portion of the substrate, and forming on a surface of the buildup structure bump structures positioned to mount an IC chip such that the chip capacitors in the opening portion of the substrate are positioned directly below the IC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Inagaki, Motoo Asai, Dongdong Wang, Hideo Yabashi, Seiji Shirai
  • Patent number: 8830690
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to shifting the resonant frequency in a high-frequency chip package away from an operational frequency by connecting a capacitance between an open-ended plating stub and ground. One embodiment provides a multi-layer substrate for interfacing a chip with a printed circuit board. A first outer layer provides a chip mounting location. A signal interconnect is spaced from the chip mounting location, and a signal trace extends from near the chip mounting location to the signal interconnect. A chip mounted at the chip mounting location may be connected to the signal trace by wirebonding. A plating stub extends from the signal interconnect, such as to a periphery of the substrate. A capacitor is used to capacitively couple the plating stub to a ground layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bhyrav M Mutnury, Moises Cases, Nanju Na, Tae Hong Kim
  • Patent number: 8830692
    Abstract: A printed circuit board according to one example embodiment includes a Z-directed component mounted in a mounting hole in the printed circuit board. The Z-directed component includes a body having a top surface, a bottom surface and a side surface. Four conductive channels extend through a portion of the body along the length of the body. The four conductive channels are spaced substantially equally around a perimeter of the body. An integrated circuit is mounted on a surface of the printed circuit board. The integrated circuit has a ball grid array that includes four conductive balls electrically connected to a corresponding one of the four conductive channels of the Z-directed component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Bryan Hardin
  • Patent number: 8830693
    Abstract: A planar transformer assembly, for use in charging capacitors of an ICD, includes windings arranged to minimize voltage across intervening dielectric layers. Each secondary winding of a preferred plurality of secondary windings is arranged relative to a primary winding, in a hierarchical fashion, such that the DC voltage, with respect to ground, of a first secondary winding, of the plurality of secondary windings, is lower than that of a second secondary winding, with respect to ground, wherein the first secondary winding is in closest proximity to the primary winding. The primary winding and each secondary winding are preferably formed on a corresponding plurality of dielectric layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark R. Boone
  • Patent number: 8830691
    Abstract: A printed circuit board including a core substrate including a first resin substrate, a second resin substrate having an opening and a third resin substrate in a multilayer manner while interposing bonding plates, insulating layers and conductive circuit layers alternately laminated on the core substrate, solder bumps formed on an outer surface of the printed circuit board, a first capacitor formed in the opening of the second resin substrate, a conductive pad formed on the first resin substrate and connected to an electrode of the first capacitor, a via hole formed in the first resin substrate and directly connected to the conductive pad and a conductive circuit on the core substrate, and a second capacitor mounted on a surface of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: IBIDEN Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Inagaki, Motoo Asai, Dongdong Wang, Hideo Yabashi, Seiji Shirai
  • Patent number: 8829356
    Abstract: A packaging substrate includes: a dielectric layer unit having top and bottom surfaces; a positioning pad embedded in the bottom surface of the dielectric layer unit; at least a passive element having a plurality of electrode pads disposed on upper and lower surfaces thereof, the passive element being embedded in the dielectric layer unit and corresponding to the positioning pad; a first circuit layer disposed on the top surface of the dielectric layer unit, the first circuit layer having first conductive vias electrically connected to the electrode pads disposed on the upper surface of the passive element; and a second circuit layer disposed on the bottom surface of the dielectric layer unit, the second circuit layer having second conductive vias electrically connected to the electrode pads disposed on the lower surface of the passive element. Through the embedding of the passive element, the overall structure may have a reduced height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Unimicron Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Shih-Ping Hsu, Zhao-Chong Zeng
  • Publication number: 20140247572
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes an accommodating layer, chip capacitor devices accommodated in the accommodating layer, and a buildup structure formed on the accommodating layer such that the buildup structure covers the chip capacitor devices in the accommodating layer. The buildup structure has mounting conductor structures positioned to mount an IC chip device on a surface of the buildup structure such that the IC chip device is mounted directly over the chip capacitor devices, each of the chip capacitor devices has a dielectric body having a surface facing the buildup structure, a first electrode formed on the dielectric body and extending on the surface of the dielectric body, and a second electrode formed on the dielectric body and extending on the surface of the dielectric body, and the dielectric body is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi INAGAKI, Motoo ASAI, Dongdong WANG, Hideo YABASHI, Seiji SHIRAI
  • Patent number: 8817485
    Abstract: A single-layer component package comprising: a single conductive-pattern layer having a first surface; an insulating-material layer on the first surface of the single conductive-pattern layer; in an installation cavity inside the insulating-material layer, a semiconductor component having flat contact zones; and solid contact pillars containing copper and solderlessly, metallurgically and electrically connecting the flat contact zones to the single conductive-pattern layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: GE Embedded Electronics Oy
    Inventors: Risto Tuominen, Petteri Palm
  • Patent number: 8804362
    Abstract: In a high-frequency module, a laminate including a plurality of dielectric layers each including an electrode pattern located thereon, and a switch element which includes a test terminal arranged to output a negative voltage applied to the switch element and which is mounted on the laminate, are integrally formed. A test external terminal for external connection which outputs a signal to the outside is provided on a back surface of the laminate. The laminate includes a voltage transmission path electrically connecting the test terminal to the test external terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 8803000
    Abstract: There is provided a device for surface mounting that has a substrate and a capacitor element loaded on a loading-side surface of the substrate and is integrally molded including the substrate and the capacitor element using a packaging resin. The substrate includes a first terminal electrode electrically connected to a first electrode of the capacitor element and a second terminal electrode electrically connected to a second electrode of the capacitor element, at least part of a mounting-side surface on an opposite side to the loading-side surface of the substrate is exposed on a mounting surface of the device, and the first terminal electrode and the second terminal electrode are adjacently disposed around an entire circumference of the mounting surface of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignees: Rubycon Corporation, Rubycon Carlit Co., Ltd., Carlit Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Miyahara, Tetsuo Shiba
  • Patent number: 8802998
    Abstract: A ceramic multilayer substrate incorporating a chip-type ceramic component, in which, even if the chip-type ceramic component is mounted on the surface of the ceramic multilayer substrate, bonding strength between the chip-type ceramic component and an internal conductor or a surface electrode of the ceramic multilayer substrate is greatly improved and increased. The ceramic multilayer substrate includes a ceramic laminate in which a plurality of ceramic layers are stacked, an internal conductor disposed in the ceramic laminate, a surface electrode disposed on the upper surface of the ceramic laminate, and a chip-type ceramic component bonded to the internal conductor or the surface electrode through an external electrode. The internal conductor or the surface electrode is bonded to the external electrode through a connecting electrode, and the connecting electrode forms a solid solution with any of the internal conductor, the surface electrode, and the external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiko Okada, Osamu Chikagawa, Hidekiyo Takaoka, Shodo Takei
  • Patent number: 8804361
    Abstract: A wiring substrate includes an electronic component and a core substrate. A through hole extends through the core substrate and accommodates the electronic component, which includes a main body and connection terminals. The main body includes opposing first side surfaces, opposing second side surfaces, and opposing third side surfaces. The connection terminals cover the first side surfaces. First projections project from walls of the through hole toward the first side surfaces. Each first projection includes a distal end that contacts one of the connection terminals. Second projections project from walls of the through hole toward the second side surfaces. The opposing second projections include distal ends spaced apart by a distance longer than the distance between the second side surfaces and shorter than the distance between two farthest points on a periphery of each first side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Shinko Electric Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takemi Machida, Daisuke Takizawa
  • Patent number: 8792250
    Abstract: A connector for connecting surface mount devices, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), to printed circuit boards (PCBs). The connector may be prepackage with an LED assembly or on a PCB to which the LED assembly will be mounted. Connection complexity can be moved from the PCB to the connector, and LED assemblies may be customized differently for different customers. One to many and many to one connections are readily supported with variations on the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Cree, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory S. Bibee
  • Patent number: 8787022
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an integrally formed object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged between the first capacitor to cover a first radiating region containing the controller and the first nonvolatile semiconductor memories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takakatsu Moriai, Toyokazu Eguchi, Atsushi Kaneko, Atsushi Okada
  • Patent number: 8780572
    Abstract: A printed circuit board that include: an electronic component having a plating electrode pad having a predetermined thickness; an insulating resin layer that exposes a lower surface of the electrode pad, receives the electronic component, and embodies the electronic component so that the center of the base body forming the electronic component is positioned at the center of the insulating resin layer; and circuit layers that include a circuit pattern disposed on the electrode pad, form inter-layer connection, and are disposed on both surfaces of the insulating resin layer, respectively, the plating electrode pad having a thickness that conforms to a thickness from an upper surface of the electronic component to an upper surface of the insulating resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Doo Hwan Lee, Tae Sung Jeong
  • Patent number: 8780573
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes an accommodating layer, chip capacitor devices accommodated in the accommodating layer, and a buildup structure formed on the accommodating layer such that the buildup structure covers the chip capacitor devices in the accommodating layer. The buildup structure has mounting conductor structures positioned to mount an IC chip device on a surface of the buildup structure such that the IC chip device is mounted directly over the chip capacitor devices, each of the chip capacitor devices has a dielectric body having a surface facing the buildup structure, a first electrode formed on the dielectric body and extending on the surface of the dielectric body, and a second electrode formed on the dielectric body and extending on the surface of the dielectric body, and the dielectric body is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Inagaki, Motoo Asai, Dongdong Wang, Hideo Yabashi
  • Patent number: 8767409
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides a self-sealed stacked structure which includes a substrate unit, a first frame, a conductive unit and a blocker unit. The substrate unit includes a first and a second substrate, and a first frame sandwiched there-between. The conductive unit includes a plurality of first conductors and second conductors electrically connecting the first substrate, the first frame and the second substrate. The first and the second conductors are in electrical connection. A blocker unit including at least two first and at least two second blockers are surroundingly arranged around the plurality of first and second conductors, respectively. The first substrate and the first frame are connected in a sealed manner through the first blockers combined by the solder, where the first frame and the second substrate are connected in a sealed manner through the second blockers combined by the solder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignees: Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Universal Global Scientific Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsung-Jung Cheng
  • Patent number: 8767408
    Abstract: Stacked arrays of components are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first and a second layer of components are electrically and mechanically coupled to an interposer with an encapsulated third layer of components disposed between the first and second layers. The first layer can be configured to attach the stacked array to a host printed circuit board. The interposer can couple signals between the components on the first and second layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn X. Arnold, Douglas P. Kidd, Sean A. Mayo, Scott P. Mullins, Dennis R. Pyper, Jeffrey M. Thoma, Kenyu Tojima
  • Patent number: 8759884
    Abstract: An electronic device comprises a functional stack (10) and a cover (50) coupled thereto by an insulating adhesive layer (30). The functional stack (10) comprises a first transparent and electrically conductive layer (22), a second electrically conductive layer (24) and a functional structure (26), comprising at least one layer, sandwiched between said first and second conductive layer. The cover (50) includes a substrate (52) and at least a first conductive structure (66, 68) that is arranged in a first plane between the adhesive layer (28) and the substrate (52). First and second transverse electrical conductors (32, 34) transverse to the first plane (61) electrically interconnect the first and the second electrically conductive layer (22, 24) with the first and the second conductive structure (66, 68) in the first plane (61).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignees: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast—natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Jeroen van den Brand, Andreas Heinrich Dietzel, Edward Willem Albert Young, Herbert Lifka, Erik Dekempeneer
  • Publication number: 20140153205
    Abstract: A wiring board includes a substrate having an opening portion, multiple electronic devices positioned in the opening portion such that the electronic devices are arrayed in the lateral direction of each of the electronic devices, and an insulation layer formed on the substrate such that the insulation layer covers the electronic devices in the opening portion of the substrate. The substrate has a wall surface defining the opening portion and formed such that the opening portion is partially partitioned and the electronic devices are kept from making contact with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukinobu MIKADO, Mitsuhiro Tomikawa, Yusuke Tanaka, Toshiki Furutani
  • Patent number: 8743555
    Abstract: Substrates having power planes, such as, for example, printed circuit boards, include at least one noise suppression structure configured to suppress electrical waves propagating through at least one of a first power plane and a second power plane. The at least one noise suppression structure may include a first power plane extension that extends from the first power plane generally toward the second power plane, and a second power plane extension that extends from the second power plane generally toward the first power plane. Methods for suppressing noise in at least one of the first power plane and second power plane include providing such noise suppression structures between the power planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Houfei Chen, Shiyou Zhao
  • Patent number: 8743553
    Abstract: An apparatus having a power converter circuit having a first active layer having a first set of active devices disposed on a face thereof, a first passive layer having first set of passive devices disposed on a face thereof, and interconnection to enable the active devices disposed on the face of the first active layer to be interconnected with the non-active devices disposed on the face of the first passive layer, wherein the face on which the first set of active devices on the first active layer is disposed faces the face on which the first set of passive devices on the first passive layer is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Arctic Sand Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David Giuliano
  • Patent number: 8743560
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a circuit board is disclosed. The circuit board includes a first metal core; a second metal core spaced apart from the first metal core in a first direction when viewed as a cross section, such that a first side of the first metal core faces a first side of the second metal core; a first electrode electrically connected to the first side of the first metal core; a second electrode electrically connected to the first side of the second metal core facing the first metal core; and a dielectric layer between the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yonghoon Kim, Hyunki Kim, Heeseok Lee
  • Patent number: 8737085
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wiring board with a built-in component and a method for manufacturing the same, the wiring board including: a wiring pattern; an electric/electronic component electrically and mechanically connected with a surface of said wiring pattern; and an insulating layer formed on the same surface of said wiring pattern as said electric/electronic component is connected and configured so as to embed said electric/electronic component, said insulating layer having an insulating resin and a reinforcing material included in the insulating resin, wherein the reinforcing material of said insulating layer exists in the insulating resin without reaching a region of said electric/electronic component in a lateral direction, and wherein the insulating resin of said insulating layer reaches said electric/electronic component so as to adhere to said electric/electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Sasaoka
  • Patent number: 8724313
    Abstract: An electric power conversion apparatus is provided which includes electronic components, a cooler, an internal unit, a capacitor, and a case. The internal unit has a frame to which at least one of the electronic components and the cooler are secured and which surrounds all around the one of the electronic components. The frame includes unit fixing sections through which the internal unit is fixed to the case and capacitor fixing sections through which the capacitor is fixed to the internal unit. The capacitor fixing sections are located inward of the frame more than the unit fixing sections. The internal unit is fixed to the case and thus works as a beam to increase the mechanical rigidity of the case. The fixing of the internal unit to the case minimizes external force to be exerted through the case on the electronic component and the cooler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Akira Nakasaka, Satoshi Noda, Kenichi Oohama
  • Patent number: 8724340
    Abstract: Data carrier for contactless data transmission comprising a substrate, a chip having at least one connection pad, wherein the chip is arranged by its side remote from the connection pad on the substrate and a first copper-coated prepreg layer is arranged on the chip and at least partly on the substrate and has a contact opening to the connection pad. A plated-through hole is situated within the contact opening for producing an electrically conductive connection between the connection pad of the chip and the copper layer of the first copper-coated prepreg layer, wherein a first antenna structure is formed in the copper layer of the first copper-coated prepreg layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Juergen Hoegerl, Martin Buchsbaum, Frank Pueschner, Stephan Rampetzreiter
  • Patent number: 8717774
    Abstract: A capacitive interposer, electronic package having the capacitive interposer and electronic device with the electronic package is described. The interposer has a first planar face and a second planar face. An array of upper connections is on the first planar face and opposing lower connections are on the second planar face with conduction paths between each upper connection of the upper connections and a lower connection of the lower connections. At least one power feed-through capacitor is provided. The capacitor is mounted on the first planar face with the first external termination in direct electrical contact with a first upper connection and the second external termination is in direct electrical contact with a second upper connection. At least one upper connection, first external termination and second external termination are arranged for direct electrical contact with element contact pads of a common element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Kemet Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Michael S. Randall, Garry Renner, John D. Prymak, Azizuddin Tajuddin
  • Patent number: 8717777
    Abstract: The present technology relates to fused capacitor structures provided with a leadframe design configured to accepting a plurality of selectively placed fuses. The leadframe and fuse configuration enables construction of fused capacitors exhibiting low Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) and allows construction of a variety of fuse configuration using a single leadframe design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: AVX Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas Mark Edson, James Allen Fife, Glenn Maurice Vaillancourt, David Allen Wadler
  • Patent number: 8717772
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a core substrate having an opening portion, an electronic component provided in the opening portion of the core substrate and including a dielectric body, a first electrode formed over the dielectric body, and a second electrode formed over the dielectric body such that the dielectric body is interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a resin filling a gap between the core substrate and the electronic component in the opening portion of the core substrate. The resin filling the gap includes a filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Ibiden Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Inagaki, Motoo Asai, Dongdong Wang, Hideo Yabashi, Seiji Shirai
  • Patent number: 8717773
    Abstract: A printed wiring board (PWB) including one or more embedded capacitors. The PWB defines a planar area and includes a plurality of first conductive plates that are substantially parallel to the planar area and extend from a first normal axis towards a second normal axis. The first normal axis and the second normal axis extend substantially perpendicularly through the planar area. The PWB also includes one or more second conductive plates that are substantially parallel to the planar area and extend from the second normal axis towards the first normal axis. The second conductive plates are positioned between the first conductive plates. A non-conductive material is positioned between the first and second conductive plates. At least one first conductive via extends substantially collinear with the first normal axis in contact with the first conductive plates. A plurality of second conductive vias extends substantially collinear with the second normal axis in contact with the second conductive plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Daniel Z. Abawi
  • Publication number: 20140118976
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a core substrate having opening, an electronic component device accommodated in the opening of the substrate and including inductor and passive components, a wiring structure connecting the inductor and passive components in the electronic device, a filler resin body filling space formed between the substrate and electronic device in the opening of the substrate, a first buildup layer including a first interlayer insulation layer on first surface of the substrate, a first conductive layer on the first insulation layer, and a first via conductor in the first insulation layer, and a second buildup layer including a second interlayer insulation layer on second surface of the substrate on the opposite side of the first surface of the substrate, a second conductive layer on the second insulation layer, and a second via conductor in the second insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro YOSHIKAWA, Liyi CHEN, Toshiki FURUTANI
  • Patent number: 8711572
    Abstract: A circuit board having a semiconductor chip embedded therein includes: a core board having opposing first and second surfaces and a through-hole; a semiconductor chip received in the through-hole and having a first active surface and an opposing second active surface, wherein first electrode pads comprising signal pads, power pads, and ground pads are provided on the first active surface; a first dielectric layer provided on the first surface of the core board and the first active surface of the semiconductor chip and configured to fill a gap between the through-hole and the semiconductor chip so as to secure the semiconductor chip in position to the through-hole; and a first circuit layer disposed in the first dielectric layer so as to be flush with the first dielectric layer, provided with first conductive vias disposed in the first dielectric layer, and electrically connected to the first electrode pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Unimicron Technology Corp.
    Inventor: Shih-Ping Hsu