This application relates to the field of power supply packaging technologies, and in particular, to a PCB-pinout based packaged module, including a packaged module and a pin exposed outside the packaged module. The packaged module includes a PCB and a power component. The PCB has a first surface and a second surface that are disposed opposite to each other, and the power component is disposed on the first surface or the second surface of the PCB. The power component performs communication connection with a pin located on one side of the first surface or one side of the second surface of the PCB through surface-layer copper of the PCB. The pin located on one side of the first surface or one side of the second surface of the PCB is a surface-layer copper etching pattern that is located on the PCB and that is exposed outside the packaged module.

Provided is a method for populating printed circuit boards, which includes the steps of acquiring jobs, in each case relating to populating printed circuit boards of a printed circuit board type on the pick-and-place line, and associated probabilities by a job is to be executed in each case, assigning printed circuit board types of the jobs to set-up families, determining for each set-up family the characteristic number which comprises the sum of probabilities of those jobs, the printed circuit board types of which are comprised by the set-up family, optimizing the assignment in such a way that the characteristic numbers of different set-up families are as different as possible, providing a set-up from one of the determined set-up families on the pick-and-place line, and populating printed circuit boards on the pick-and place line.

A circuit module may include a circuit board and an overmold. The circuit board may have a first surface from which an electronic component extends and a second surface opposite the first surface. The circuit board may be characterized by a width across the circuit board. The circuit board may include a tie-bar residual extending from a sidewall of the circuit board beyond the width across the circuit board. The overmold may at least partially encapsulate the first surface of the circuit board and the second surface of the circuit board. The overmold may extend laterally beyond the width of the circuit board along a length of the circuit board. The overmold may define a region about the tie-bar residual characterized by a first recessed height with respect to the first surface and a second recessed height with respect to the second surface. The overmold may define a notch within the region recessed from an outer edge of the overmold.

A method for manufacturing a wiring board includes forming on a first support plate a first laminated wiring portion including conductor and insulating layers such that the first portion has a first surface on first support plate side and a second surface, separating the first portion from the first plate, forming a conductor layer exposed on the first surface and including pads, laminating the first portion on a second support plate such that the second surface of the first portion faces second support plate side, forming on the first surface of the first portion a second laminated wiring portion including conductor and insulating layers such that the second portion has a third surface on second support plate side and a fourth surface, forming cavity in the second portion on the second plate such that the cavity exposes the pads, and separating the first and second portions from the second plate.

Embodiments of the invention include LED lighting systems and methods. For example, in some embodiments, an LED lighting system is included. The LED lighting system can include a flexible layered circuit structure that can include a top thermally conductive layer, a middle electrically insulating layer, a bottom thermally conductive layer, and a plurality of light emitting diodes mounted on the top layer. The LED lighting system can further include a housing substrate and a mounting structure. The mounting structure can be configured to suspend the layered circuit structure above the housing substrate with an air gap disposed in between the bottom thermally conductive layer of the flexible layered circuit structure and the housing substrate. The distance between the layered circuit structure and the support layer can be at least about 0.5 mm. Other embodiments are also included herein.

A modular deformable electronics platform is attachable to a deformable surface, such as skin. The platform is tolerant to surface deformation and motion, can flex in and out of a plane of the platform without hindering operability of electrical components included on the platform, and is formed via arrangement of discrete flexible tiles, with corners of adjacent tiles connected by a flexible connection material so that individual tiles can translate and rotate relative to each other. Interconnects disposed on bases of separate tiles electrically connect adjacent tiles via their connected corners, and electrically connect components disposed on different tiles. Each pair of adjacent corner connections defines an axis about which at least a portion of the platform can flex without deformation and without hindering connections between tiles. The flexible material and/or bases of the tiles can include Parylene.

The manufacturing method includes (a) preparing first printed circuit board and second printed circuit board, the first printed circuit board being provided with a plurality of first terminals, the second printed circuit board being provided with a plurality of second terminals, and the first terminals or the second terminals being coated with solders; and (b) connecting the first terminals and the second terminals, respectively, via respective solders by performing thermocompression on connecting portions of the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board. Each second terminal includes a first end portion and a second end portion in a long axis direction, and in the step (b), pressure is applied to each second terminal such that the height of each of the first end portion and second end portion is larger than the height in another portion of the second terminal.

An electronic component module includes a substrate; at least one electronic component mounted on an electronic component mounting surface of the substrate; an insulating body covering the electronic component on the electronic component mounting surface of the substrate; and a metal film formed by sputtering, the metal film covering at least one exterior surface of the insulating body and at least one side surface of the substrate. The substrate has a recess portion formed on a periphery of the surface of the substrate that is opposite to the electronic component mounting surface, and the recess portion has a top surface parallel to the electronic component mounting surface and a side surface perpendicular to the top surface, and the metal film is extended to cover the top surface of the recess portion, without covering the side surface thereof. It obtains improved electromagnetic wave shielding effect and improved manufacturing efficiency.

The invention relates to a component carrier for an electronic device, the component carrier comprising at least one heat-releasing component that is embedded within at least one carrier layer of the component carrier, and wherein the at least one embedded heat-releasing component is thermoconductively coupled to a heat spreader layer, characterized in that the heat spreader layer forms at least an outside section of a casing of said electronic device. Also an electronic device that comprises at least one component carrier according to the invention, as well as a method to produce a respective component carrier are indicated.

A method for manufacturing a combined wiring board includes preparing multiple wiring boards, preparing a metal frame having opening portions which accommodate the boards, respectively, positioning the boards in the opening portions of the frame, respectively, and forming multiple crimped portions in the frame by plastic deformation such that the sidewalls of the boards bond to sidewalls of the opening portions in the frame. The preparing of the boards includes forming the sidewalls of the boards such that when the boards are positioned in the opening portions of the frame, the sidewalls of the boards form wide-space portions and narrow-space portions with respect to the sidewalls of the opening portions in the frame, and the forming of the crimped portions includes generating the deformation such that the sidewalls of the opening portions in the frame abut the narrow-space portions of the boards before the wide-space portions of the boards.