A riding lawn mower includes a seat, a frame, a mowing element, a deck surrounding, and forming a mowing space for accommodating at least part of the mowing element, and a first motor for driving the mowing element to rotate. The first motor includes a rotor assembly having a rotor shaft enabled to rotate about a rotation axis and a stator assembly, and a motor housing surrounding and forming an accommodation cavity for accommodating at least part of the stator assembly. The rotor shaft passes through the motor housing in a direction of the rotation axis and is at least partially located outside the motor housing. The deck is provided with a first through hole for the first motor to pass through so that the motor housing is at least partially located in the mowing space. The first motor of the riding lawn mower has a good cooling effect.

A method for producing an elastomeric component, preferably an elastomeric sealing component, including an elastomer body and a printed structure, preferably a printed electronic structure or circuit, on a surface of the elastomer body. The method includes: a. providing a planar foil of thermoplastic material having a printable surface; b. printing a structure onto the printable surface to obtain the printed structure; c. providing an elastomer substrate for forming the elastomer body; d. placing the planar foil with the printed structure onto the elastomer substrate; and e. laminating the combined planar foil and elastomer substrate by applying heat and pressure. The elastomeric component is obtained in that the elastomer substrate is formed to the shape of the elastomer body before step d); the elastomer substrate is formed to the shape of the elastomer body during lamination; or the elastomer substrate is formed to the shape of the elastomer body after lamination.

A method for manufacturing a circuit board includes providing a composite material film including a metal film and a polymeric film, disposing a dielectric layer on the polymeric film to form a stacked structure, forming a circuit layer with a contact pad on a substrate, bonding the stacked structure onto the substrate and the circuit layer, and forming a first opening extending through the metal film to form a patterned metal film. The dielectric layer directly contacts the substrate and entirely covers the circuit layer. The method further includes plasma etching the dielectric layer with the patterned metal film as a mask to form a second opening in the dielectric layer and expose the contact pad in the second opening, removing the composite material film, and depositing a conductive material in the second opening to form a conductive blind hole electrically connected to the contact pad.

A method for manufacturing a water resistant substrate comprises a first step of providing a substrate. The method proceeds with a step of populating at least one component onto the substrate. Next, the method includes a step of cleaning the substrate including the at least one component to form a cleaned substrate. Then, the method proceeds with depositing a multi-layered water resistant coating onto the cleaned substrate.

A method for protecting a substrate from corrosion, which method comprises in sequence: a first step including plasma polymerization of a precursor monomer and deposition of the resultant polymer onto at least one surface of a substrate; a second step including exposing the polymer to an inert gas in the presence of a plasma without further deposition of polymer onto the or each surface of the substrate; a third step including plasma polymerization of the precursor monomer used in the first step and deposition of the resultant polymer onto the polymer deposited in the first step so as to increase the thickness of the polymer; and optionally, a fourth step including exposing the polymer to an inert gas in the presence of a plasma without further deposition of polymer onto the or each surface of the substrate.

An interconnect substrate includes an insulating layer and an interconnect layer formed on a surface of the insulating layer, wherein the surface of the insulating layer has grooves formed therein, the grooves having a meander shape on an order of nanometers in a plan view, and wherein the interconnect layer has anchor portions fitted into the grooves.

Provided herein are methods for manufacturing a multilayer circuit structure having embedded circuits and the multilayer circuit structure made thereby. A substrate having at least one existing circuit on the surface is provided, then a dielectric layer is formed to cover the existing circuit. A metal layer is subsequently formed on the dielectric layer. The metal layer is made into a metal hard mask with a pattern by photoimaging, then the pattern is transferred to the dielectric layer underneath by plasma etching to create trenches and pads for vias at the same time. After vias are made on the pads, a conductive metal is deposited into the trenches and vias to form an embedded trace layer in the respective dielectric layer. The excess conductive metal is removed to obtain a new circuit embedded in the dielectric layer and is coplanar with the surface of the dielectric layer.

Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques for providing an apparatus with a substrate provided with plasma treatment. In some instances, the apparatus may include a substrate with a surface that comprises a metal layer to provide signal routing in the apparatus. The metal layer may be provided in response to a plasma treatment of the surface with a functional group containing a gas (e.g., nitrogen-based gas), to provide absorption of a transition metal catalyst into the surface, and subsequent electroless plating of the surface with a metal. The transition metal catalyst is to enhance electroless plating of the surface with the metal. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

A printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a base film having an insulating property, and a conductive pattern that is stacked on at least one surface of the base film and that includes a plurality of wiring parts arranged in parallel. The plurality of wiring parts have an average width of 5 μm or more and 15 μm or less. The plurality of wiring parts have an electroless plating layer and an electroplating layer stacked on the electroless plating layer. A void density at an interface between the electroless plating layer and the electroplating layer in a section of the plurality of wiring parts in a thickness direction is 0.01 μm.sup.2/μm or less.

The disclosure provides a three-dimensional circuit assembly including a printed circuit board comprising a top film surface and a bottom film surface opposite to the top film surface. The three-dimensional circuit assembly may also include a first layer of a composite material bonded or laminated on the top film surface. The three-dimensional circuit assembly may further include a second layer of the composite material bonded or laminated on the bottom film surface of the printed circuit board.