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 three-dimensional circuit board, including a ceramic substrate and multiple circuits, is provided. The ceramic substrate has a first plane, a second plane, a third plane located between the first plane and the second plane, a first side surface connecting the first plane and the second plane, and a second side surface connecting the first plane and the third plane and opposite to the first side surface. A first height of the first side surface is greater than a second height of the second side surface. The circuits are separately embedded on the first plane of the ceramic substrate and extend along the first side surface to be embedded on the second plane.

The invention relates to a motor vehicle component support, in particular a motor vehicle door lock (1), and to a method for the production thereof. Said motor vehicle component support is equipped with a strip conductor structure (3) composed of several strip conductors (7). According to the invention, the strip conductor structure (3) comprises at least two conductor strip sub-structures (3a, 3b) which are electrically interconnected by means of at least one connecting element (8) which is applied later.

A device including an electrically conducting track arranged on a support includes a step of supply of the support, and a step of formation of the electrically conducting track on the support including a step of supply of a solution intended to be deposited on the support, a step of deposition of the solution by printing on the support. The step of supply of the solution is such that the solution supplied includes a mixture of a solvent, of a set of metal particles and of a metallic material having a melting point below that of the metal particles of the set of metal particles, and the method includes a step of melting of the metallic material which results in the formation of a solder of metallic material between metal particles of the set of metal particles.

A sensing device for a vehicular sensing system includes a housing having a front housing portion and a metallic rear housing portion. A first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board are disposed in the housing. The second printed circuit board is electrically connected to the first printed circuit board, which has an electrical connector for electrically connecting the sensing device to a vehicle wire harness. The second printed circuit board has circuitry thereat, with the circuitry generating heat when the sensing device is operating. The rear housing portion comprises a thermally conductive element that extends through an aperture of the first printed circuit board and is thermally coupled at the second printed circuit board. The thermally conductive element conducts heat generated by the circuitry of the second printed circuit board to the rear housing portion to dissipate the heat from the sensing device.

A method for manufacturing an electromechanical structure, including producing conductors on a flat film; estimating a strain a plurality of locations of the flat film will undergo during formation thereof into a three-dimensional film; attaching electronic elements on the flat film at selected locations of the plurality of locations of the flat film, wherein the estimated strain of the selected locations of the plurality of locations is less than the estimated strain in other locations of the plurality of locations; forming the flat film into the three-dimensional film; and injection molding material on the three-dimensional film.

A module for a networking node is disclosed. The module includes a Printed Circuit Board (“PCB”), one or more circuits mounted to the PCB and a faceplate. The faceplate includes a middle plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The first side plate extends from the middle plate at an obtuse angle relative to the middle plate towards a first side and back of the module. The second side plate extends from the middle plate, opposite to the first side plate, at an obtuse angle relative to the middle plate towards a second side and the back of the module.

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 stacked body includes a first resin layer including a thermoplastic first resin as a main material, a pattern including a conductor layer on one principal surface of the first resin layer, and a second resin layer including a thermoplastic second resin as a main material. The first resin layer is softer than the second resin layer. The first resin layer has a lower dielectric constant than the second resin layer. A pattern including the conductor layer is at least partially embedded in the first resin layer, and includes a portion in contact with the first resin layer along a layer direction (X-Y plane) of the first resin layer and a portion in contact with the first resin layer along a stacking direction (X-Z plane) of the first resin layer, the second resin layer, and the pattern including the conductor layer.

The invention deals with a support for light source(s) for a light module, notably for a motor vehicle, comprising a substrate; at least one surface light source of the organic light-emitting diode type supported by the substrate, the at least one surface light source comprising, at one or more edges, at least two electrical contact zones; electrical tracks deposited on the substrate; and electrical contacts between the electrical contact zones of the light source or sources and the electrical tracks. The electrical contacts comprise elastic blades, in contact under pressure with the contact zone or zones of the surface light source or sources and with the electrical tracks on the substrate.