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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7362111 | Device for evaluating at least one electrical conducting structure of an electronic component An apparatus and method for evaluating the integrity of each contact pin of an electronic component having multiple contact pins. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a test device and a measuring instrument. The test device comprises a component fixture config... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7331797 | Electrical connector and a manufacturing method thereof A manufacturing method for an electrical connector is provided. The electrical connector includes a main portion and a plurality of supporting members that are connected with the main portion. The supporting members are applied with a plurality of metal layers there... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325303 | Three-dimensional flexible interposer A generally planar interposer having a plurality of interposer contact pads to contact a plurality of first contacts of a first electronic device on one side of the interposer, and a plurality of electrical connections between the interposer contact pads and a plura... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7280372 | Stair step printed circuit board structures for high speed signal transmissions Disclosed are stair stepped PCB structures which provide high performance, direct path, via-less interconnections between various elements of an electronic interconnection structure including, among others, IC packages and connectors. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7182605 | Land grid array socket having improved terminals A land grid array socket (1) in accordance with the present invention is provided. The socket comprises an insulative housing (2) having a plurality of passageways (24) extending throughout an upper mating surface (22) and a lower mountin... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7147490 | Fiber-optic endface cleaning assembly and method A cleaning apparatus (100) for cleaning an endface (202) of an optical fiber contained within an interface device (200) is provided. The cleaning apparatus includes a housing (110) having an interface portion (116) adapted to be re... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7122909 | Wiring board, stacked wiring board and method of manufacturing the same, semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same, circuit board, and electronic instrument A wiring board has a substrate and an interconnect pattern formed on the substrate. The interconnect pattern includes a plurality of lands. Each of the lands includes a base section and an additional section extending from the base section, the base section of each ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114960 | Compliant interconnect assembly An apparatus and method for making a compliant interconnect assembly adapted to electrically couple a first circuit member to a second circuit member. The first dielectric layer has a first major surface and a plurality of through openings. A plurality of electrical... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7070420 | Electrical interconnect system utilizing nonconductive elastomeric elements and continuous conductive elements An electrical interconnect system is provided including a substrate and an array of electrical contacts held in the substrate. Each of the electrical contacts includes a nonconductive elastomeric element and an associated conductive element. The nonconductive elemen... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7025607 | Capacitor material with metal component for use in circuitized substrates, circuitized substrate utilizing same, method of making said circuitized substrate, and information handling system utilizing said circuitized substrate A material for use as part of an internal capacitor within a circuitized substrate includes a polymer resin and a quantity of nano-powders including a mixture of at least one metal component and at least one ferroelectric ceramic component, the ferroelectric ceramic... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025601 | Interposer and method for making same An interposer and method for making same is disclosed. A metallic sheet is formed with a plurality of spring members. A first sheet of insulative material is provided on a top surface of the metallic sheet and a second sheet of insulative material is provided on a b... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6957963 | Compliant interconnect assembly An apparatus and method for making a compliant interconnect assembly. The compliant interconnect assembly includes a first carrier having a first major surface and a plurality of through openings. A first major surface of a first flexible circuit member having a plu... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6939143 | Flexible compliant interconnect assembly A method and apparatus for achieving a fine pitch interconnect between a flexible circuit member and another circuit member with co-planar electrical contacts that have a large range of compliance. The interconnect assembly includes a substrate with one or more comp... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6878014 | Electrical connector assembly and container An electrical connector assembly has live-phase conductive strips (5) potted in a solid polymer body (4). The strips are cut to provide transverse terminals (5a) on opposite sides. The polymer body (4) is confined within a housing ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6444920 | Thin film circuit with component The invention relates to a thin film circuit with component. The thin film circuit comprises a network of capacitors, or a network of capacitors and resistors, or a network of capacitors, resistors and inductances, or a network of capacitors and inductanc... | 09/03/2002 |
| 5917707 | Flexible contact structure with an electrically conductive shell An interconnection contact structure assembly including an electronic component having a surface and a conductive contact carried by the electronic component and accessible at the surface. The contact structure includes an internal flexible elongate membe... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5742484 | Flexible connector for circuit boards A surface mountable flexible interconnect (10) for connecting two circuit board (30, 32) consists of a flex circuit (12) with solderable runners (14) on one side, the runners traversing the flex circuit from one end to the other. There is a solderable pad... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5652553 | Signal transmission between modules connected to a common backplane In a system having modules (20), voltage supply (15), signal transmission via terminated signal lines (13) and signal ground (14), the impedance of the signal lines (13) with respect to both the signal ground (14) and the voltage supply (15) is identical,... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5480309 | Universal multilayer base board assembly for integrated circuits A universal laminated base board assembly for connecting an integrated circuit device to a pcb has a series of alternating, overlying, conductive and insulating layers with two of the conductive layers providing ground and current lines on respective oppo... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5477612 | Method of making high density conductive networks A supported conductive network (SCN), which can be flexible or rigid, can have self-aligning conductors which connect with corresponding conductors of other networks. The conductive network can be fabricated into densely packed contact clusters for use as... | 12/26/1995 |
| 5343616 | Method of making high density self-aligning conductive networks and contact clusters A conductive network, which can be flexible or rigid, can have self-aligning conductors which connect with corresponding conductors of other networks. The conductive network can be fabricated into densely packed contact clusters for use as electrical inte... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5057026 | Electric junction box To standardize electric junction boxes so that the internal circuits can be applied to various requirements without markedly changing parts, the junction box is divided into plural stackable distributing units each connectable to each subharness via each ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5047368 | Method of manufacturing a thick-film circuit arrangement The invention relates to a method of forming a thick-film circuit arrangement having an electronic circuit which is constructed on a surface (17) of a ceramic substrate plate (3) and which consists of conductor paths (5), resistors, capacitors and compone... | 09/10/1991 |
| 5044966 | Electrical panel for physically supporting and electrically connecting electrical components An electrical panel for particularly supporting and supplying electrical connections for a plurality of electrical components comprises a sandwich formed by a central conducting layer computer design to form a plurality of conducting paths which are laser... | 09/03/1991 |
| 4992059 | Ultra fine line cable and a method for fabricating the same The invention is a fine line electrical cable with two ends having a plurality of first conductor lines in a plane. The lines of the cable are embedded in an insulating laminate material, are closely spaced at one end to be compatible with the closely spa... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4944684 | Electrical junction box and method for its manufacture An improved electrical junction box includes a housing, a multilayer printed circuit board supported by the interior of the housing and an array of electrical connectors supported by the exterior of the housing. The electrical connectors make electrical c... | 07/31/1990 |
| 4906198 | Circuit board assembly and contact pin for use therein A circuit assembly (e.g., printed circuit board) including an insulative substrate having opposed surfaces each defining a walled opening therein. Each walled opening includes a layer of conductive material (e.g., copper) plated thereon, these openings be... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4894016 | Electrical connector A stepped electrical connector having a printed circuit board mounted in an electrically insulating housing. The board has a first collection of electrical contacts extending in a given direction and a second collection of contacts extending in the opposi... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4860088 | Electrical interconnect tape A flexible beam lead tape having three layers having trace conductors, a dielectric and a ground plane. Vias extend through the dielectric layer at the first and second ends of the electrical conductors for providing versatile connections to either ends o... | 08/22/1989 |
| 4781600 | Junction box and a process of assembling the same A watertight and leak-proof junction box for use, for example, in vehicles such as automobiles, and a process of assembling such a junction box are provided. The wiring board assembly comprising a plurality of insulating plates, wiring conductors strips a... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4767674 | Metal cored board and method for manufacturing same It is disclosed that a metal cored board which comprises an electrically conductive layer whose one surface at least composed of a hardly oxidizable metal, an insulating organic polymer layer baked on the surface of the hardly oxidizable metal, and a meta... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4736266 | Printed circuit board and a circuit assembly for a radio apparatus A printed circuit board comprises a baseboard having conductor patterns therein and ground layers on both surfaces thereof, and terminal pins mounted on the baseboard. The terminal pins have a root portion which does not project from the baseboard and a c... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4689103 | Method of manufacturing injection molded printed circuit boards in a common planar array A plurality of physically separate plastic substates are injection molded, each with at least one pattern of channels formed in a surface of thereof defining a conductive circuit to be formed. The plurality of substrates are then physically connected in a... | 08/25/1987 |
| 4656314 | Printed circuit An ultraviolet reactive ink is applied to a translucent substrate in the desired circuit image and partially cured to a tacky state with ultraviolet radiation. A resist material is then applied to the substrate in the negative circuit image and metallic p... | 04/07/1987 |
| 4648180 | Method of producing a wired circuit board A method for producing a wired circuit board is disclosed in which a wire mat is formed on a fixture and then mated with a circuit board having a specified conductive pad layout on the board surface. A continuous wire is routed on a fixture along a predet... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4647133 | Electrical interconnect system A corrosion resistant electrical interconnect system has a flexible circuit with buried conductor patterns in an insulative film coating which is juxtaposed to a feed-through connector having inlet/outlet electrical contact pins therethrough. Sharp ends a... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4626462 | Process for the manufacture of through-hole contacted flexible circuit boards for high bending stresses and the circuit boards made therefrom A multi-layer through-hole contacted flexible circuit board and method of manufacture thereof is presented having a laminar construction which is strictly symmetrical in the bending area; and which have no exposed adhesive. Registration holes are first in... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4623766 | Pressure-sensitive sheet material A sheet material for a pressure-sensitive detecting device has a corrugated and electrically conductive net having a multiplicity of corrugations on each side thereof and covered by an electrically insulating material. The net is embedded in an electrical... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4623768 | Foldable membrane switch with fold remote from contact-carrying panels Folded membrane switches (20, 50, 70) formed from foldable blanks (21, 51, 71) including two spaced contact-carrying panels (22,23) connected by an intermediate third panel (24). The blanks (21, 51, 71) are folded along the third panel (24) to position co... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4609241 | Programmable programmed socket A socket can be readily programmed to adapt the pin out configuration of an integrated circuit for convenient plug-in use or substitution in an environment, such as a socket, ordinarily intended for a similar integrated circuit with a different pin-out co... | 09/02/1986 |
