Disclosed is an electronic card, in the form of a flexible smart card provided with a flexible circuit, that includes a bottom face receiving electronic components and a top face provided with contact tabs intended to be connected to conductive tracks of a garment textile. The flexible circuit being covered on its bottom face with at least one bottom layer of bonding adhesive, first polymer layers provided with cutouts for receiving components and second polymer layers for encapsulating the components, and covered on its top face with a top layer of bonding adhesive and at least one top layer forming an outer face of the card made from polymer material provided with cutouts for accessing the contact tabs, in which at least some of the contact tabs are produced on the rim of the card and provided with an end part on the edge of the card.

A circuit board according to an embodiment includes an insulating layer; a second outer circuit pattern disposed on an upper surface of the insulating layer; and a via disposed in the insulating layer and connected to the second outer circuit pattern; wherein the second outer circuit pattern includes: a first pattern embedded in the insulating layer and having a first width; and a second pattern protruding on the upper surface of the insulating layer, having a second width greater than the first width, and connected to the first pattern through the via.

There is provided a method for manufacturing a component interconnect board (150) comprising a conductor structure for providing electrical circuitry to at least one component (114) when mounted on the component board, the method comprising providing a conductor sheet (100) with a first predetermined pattern (115), providing a solder resist sheet (112) with a second predetermined pattern for defining solder areas (125) of the component board, forming a subassembly (120) by laminating the solder resist sheet on top of the conductor sheet, applying solder onto the subassembly, placing the at least one component onto the subassembly, performing soldering, and laminating the subassembly to a substrate (130). The solder resist sheet is further arranged to act as a carrier for the conductor sheet.

A circuit carrier board structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an adhesive layer, and a plurality of contact pads. The first substrate includes a first surface and a second surface, and also includes a plurality of first build-up layers sequentially stacked. The first build-up layers include a first dielectric layer and a first circuit layer. The second substrate includes a third surface and a fourth surface, and also includes a plurality of second build-up layers sequentially stacked. The second build-up layers include a second dielectric layer and a second circuit layer. The second surface is combined to the third surface. The connection pads are on the first surface and electrically connected to the first circuit layer. The first substrate is electrically connected to the second substrate. A manufacturing method of the circuit carrier board structure is also provided.

Techniques are disclosed for forming a package substrate with integrated stiffener. A panel of package substrates are provided. An adhesion layer is then formed on each package substrate of the panel of package substrates. A panel of stiffeners are then attached to the panel of package substrates by the adhesion layer, each stiffener corresponding to a respective package substrate. The panel of package substrates is then singulated into individual package substrates with integrated stiffeners. The stiffeners on the singulated package substrates include tabs that extend to the edges of the package substrates.

A circuit board is described which includes a layer composite with at least one dielectric layer which includes a planar extension in parallel with respect to an xy-plane which is spanned by an x-axis and a y-axis perpendicular thereto, and which includes a layer thickness along a z-axis which is perpendicular with respect to the x-axis and to the y-axis; and at least one metallic layer which is attached to the dielectric layer in a planar manner. The layer composite along the z-axis is free from a symmetry plane which is oriented in parallel with respect to the xy-plane, and the dielectric layer includes a dielectric material which has an elastic modulus E in a range between 1 and 20 GPa and along the x-axis and along the y-axis a coefficient of thermal expansion in a range between 0 and 17 ppm/K. A method of manufacturing such a circuit board is also described. Further, a method of manufacturing a circuit board structure comprising two asymmetric circuit boards and a method of manufacturing two processed asymmetric circuit boards from a larger circuit board structure is described.

A circuit board and a method of manufacturing a circuit board or two circuit boards are illustrated and described. The circuit board includes (a) a dielectric layer with a planar extension in parallel with respect to an xy-plane which is spanned by an x-axis and a y-axis perpendicular thereto and a layer thickness along a z-direction which is perpendicular with respect to the x-axis and to the y-axis; (b) a metallic layer which is attached to the dielectric layer in a planar manner; and (c) a component which is embedded in the dielectric layer and/or in a dielectric core-layer of the circuit board. The dielectric layer includes a dielectric material which has (i) an elastic modulus E in a range between 1 and 20 GPa and (ii) a coefficient of thermal expansion in a range between 0 and 17 ppm/K along the x-axis and along the y-axis.

A tool for supporting multilayer printed circuit boards during manufacture having a frame in which there is fixed a pretensed, non-electrically conductive fabric which has a thickness less than 0.1 mm and which can be accessed by its two faces. The tool allows the induction bonding of the layers at internal points of the bundle following a method in which the bundle is placed on the tool and at least one of the welding electrodes used in the welding operation is applied on the lower face of a fabric of the tool supporting the bundle. A machine especially suitable for putting the method into practice includes C-shaped magnetic cores, the arms of which are long enough to reach the internal points of the bundle.

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 planar transformer employing an insulating structure for performance improvement includes: a pair of ferrite cores (110) including an upper core (110-1) and a lower core (110-2); a printed circuit board (120), which is disposed between the pair of ferrite cores (110), one end of which has primary via holes (121) electrically connecting primary coil patterns, and the other end of which has secondary via holes (123) electrically connecting secondary coil patterns; an insulating block (130-1) for receiving one side of the pair of ferrite cores (110); and an insulating base (130-2) disposed in the pair of ferrite cores (110) and fittedly coupled to the insulating block (130-1), wherein the insulating block (130-1) and the insulating base (130-2) receive a given region of the printed circuit board (120) at one side at which the secondary via holes (123) is disposed.