The display module includes first and second FPC substrates disposed on top of each other. The first substrate has an IC mounted on it. The second FPC substrate has a cutout inside which the IC is disposed.

A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer, a stack including wiring layers and photosensitive-resin insulating layers on a first surface of the insulating layer, a wiring layer on a second surface of the insulating layer, having a lower wiring density than the wiring layers, a metal core plate buried in the insulating layer and positioned on the stack side with respect to the center of the insulating layer in its thickness direction, and a via wiring buried in the insulating layer to have a first end face exposed at the first surface and joined to the lowermost one of the wiring layers, and a second end face joined to the metal core plate. The first surface and the first end face are substantially flush with each other. The wiring layers include a signal line, and a ground line concentrically formed around the signal line, with a predetermined interval therebetween.

A connector includes a metal cylinder with three or more slots cut from a first end and three or more slots cut from a second end which are intercalated between the slots from the first end, whereby the connector is radially compressible along its entire length. The connector is adapted for insertion at one end into a hole in a circuit board, thereby making electrical contact to traces in the circuit board.

An image pickup apparatus for an endoscope of the present invention includes a first circuit board on which a lead portion, a window portion in which a part of the lead portion is exposed, and a second circuit board on which a circuit pattern is fixed by soldering to the lead portion exposed on the window portion, and the lead portion that is exposed on the window portion extends from one end side of the window portion to the other end side, and has an enlarged end portion of the lead portion that is placed between two or more insulating layers and is formed with a larger width than a width of the lead portion in the window portion, at the other end side.

Disclosed embodiments include alignment apparatuses for circuit boards, inverter assemblies, and methods for fabricating an assembly with a circuit board placed on an alignment apparatus. An illustrative apparatus includes an electrically insulative substrate having a first substantially planar surface and a second substantially planar surface forming an opposing side of the first substantially planar surface. The second substantially planar surface defines therein self-aligning features that are configured to align at least one power module pin with the electrically insulative substrate. The first substantially planar surface has at least one alignment feature configured to align a printed circuit board with the electrically insulative substrate. The apparatus also includes a routing feature coupled to the electrically insulative substrate. The routing feature is configured to route at least one low voltage conductor.

A display panel including: a substrate; a plurality of first connecting wires in a first portion of the substrate and connected to a first flexible printed circuit board; a plurality of second connecting wires in a second portion of the substrate and connected to a second flexible printed circuit board, the second portion being adjacent to the first portion; first and second test pads provided between the first and second portions of the substrate, the first test pad being connected to an endmost first connecting wire adjacent to the second portion, the second test pad being connected to an endmost second connecting wire adjacent to the first portion; and an electrical circuit in which the endmost first and second connecting wires are included in different power supply nodes.

A multi layer interconnecting substrate has at least two spaced apart metal layers with a conductive pad on each one of the metal layers. Two different types of insulating layers are placed between the metal layers. The placement is such that one of the two different types of insulating layers is placed between the conductive pads and the other type of insulating layer is placed between the two spaced apart metal layers.

Disclosed is an adapter panel and a method of manufacturing the same comprising a panel body having a first surface and an opposing second surface, wherein a through-hole in a frustrum shape is formed through the panel body and filled by a conical electrical conductor between the first and second surface. The conical electrical conductor has a plane end flush with the first surface and a tip end protruding from the second surface. The panel body further comprises a wiring structure on the first surface electrically connected to the plane end of the conical electrical conductor. Bonding to a dielectric plate can be achieved by directly inserting the tip end of the conical electrical conductor into a solder ball.

Example human-machine interface (HMI) assemblies are disclosed. One example HMI assembly includes a fascia, a touch film having a first raised contact, a PCB having a second raised contact, and a piercing member passing through the first and second contacts to electrically couple the first and second contacts.

A soldering alloy includes an alloy composition consisting of 13-22 mass % of In, 0.5-2.8 mass % of Ag, 0.5-5.0 mass % of Bi, 0.002-0.05 mass % of Ni, and a balance Sn. A soldering alloy, a soldering paste, a preform solder, a soldering ball, a wire solder, a resin flux cored solder and a solder joint, each of which is composed of the soldering alloy. An electronic circuit board and a multi-layer electronic circuit board joined by using the solder joint.