An illustrative example embodiment of an antenna device includes a substrate, a plurality of antenna elements supported on the substrate, an integrated circuit supported on one side of the substrate, and a metallic waveguide antenna situated against the substrate. The metallic waveguide antenna includes a heat dissipation portion in a thermally conductive relationship with the integrated circuit. The heat dissipation portion is configured to reduce a temperature of the integrated circuit.

A component-embedded substrate includes: insulating layers each including a wiring pattern; an embedded component including a connection terminal; a plurality of vias that electrically connect the connection terminal to the wiring patterns adjacent to each other in a lamination direction. Each of the vias is composed of a via hole in the insulating layer and a conductive material in the via hole. One of the vias is a connection via connected to the connection terminal, and another of the vias is an adjacent via adjacent to the connection via in the lamination direction. The connection via and adjacent via overlap in a plan view. S1/A1≤0.61 and S1/A2≤0.61 are satisfied, where A1 is an average cross-sectional area of the connection via, A2 is an average cross-sectional area of the adjacent via, and S1 is an overlapping area of the connection via and adjacent via in the plan view.

A circuit board includes at least two circuit board units stacked together. Each circuit board unit includes a substrate and a circuit layer. The substrate defines a conductive hole penetrating therethrough. The conductive hole provided with a conductor therein. One side of the substrate further defines a groove, the groove including a concave portion aligned with the conductive hole. The circuit layer includes a connection pad located in the concave portion. The connection pad is shaped as a conductive protrusion, which surrounds and is electrically connected to the conductor. The circuit layer is located in the groove, and the conductive hole is electrically connecting the circuit layers of the circuit board units.

A circuit board structure includes a first sub-board including a plurality of circuit patterns, a second sub-board including a plurality of pads, and a connecting structure layer having a plurality of through holes and including an insulating layer, first and second adhesive layers, and a plurality of conductive blocks. The first adhesive layer is directly connected to the first sub-board. The second adhesive layer is directly connected to the second sub-board. The through holes penetrate through the first adhesive layer, the insulating layer, and the second adhesive layer. The conductive blocks are located in the through holes. An upper surface and a lower surface of each conductive block are respectively lower than a first surface of the first adhesive layer and a second surface of the second adhesive layer relatively away from the insulating layer. Each circuit pattern contacts the upper surface, and each pad contacts the lower surface.

A method is for making an electronic device that includes a multilayer circuit board having a non-planar three-dimensional shape defining a membrane switch recess therein. The multilayer circuit board may include at least one liquid crystal polymer (LCP) layer, and at least one electrically conductive pattern layer thereon defining at least one membrane switch electrode adjacent the membrane switch recess to define a membrane switch. The electronic may further include a compressible dielectric material filling the membrane switch recess. The electronic device may also include at least one spring member within the membrane switch recess.

Pastes are disclosed that are configured to coat a passage of a substrate. When the paste is sintered, the paste becomes electrically conductive so as to transmit electrical signals from a first end of the passage to a second end of the passage that is opposite the first end of the passage. The metallized paste contains a lead-free glass frit, and has a coefficient of thermal expansion sufficiently matched to the substrate so as to avoid cracking of the sintered paste, the substrate, or both, during sintering.

A composite wiring board includes a first wiring board including a first insulating layer, a first conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer, and metal elements penetrating the first insulating layer and the first conductor layer such that the metal elements are electrically connected to each other by the first conductor layer, and a second wiring board including a second insulating layer and a second conductor layer forming on the second insulating layer and including metal connection terminals such that the metal connection terminals are corresponding to and directly bonded to the metal elements of the first wiring board, respectively.

A printed circuit board including a set of five layers encompassing a breakout area is described. The set includes a first ground layer, a first signal layer having a first conductive layer within the breakout area, a second ground layer having conductive material, a second signal layer having a second conductive layer within the breakout area, and a third ground layer. The second ground layer having a void forming a differential pair being two parallel traces, and being separated into a first portion positioned within the breakout area and a second portion outside of the breakout area. The differential pair having a first width and a first spacing within the breakout area and a second width and second spacing outside of the breakout area, with the second width greater than the first width. The first and second conductive layers forming a first ground plane and a second ground plane.

A tolerance compensation element is for circuit configurations having a DCB (direct copper bonded) substrate and a PCB (printed circuit board). A circuit configuration further includes the tolerance compensation element. A tolerance compensation element is positioned in a targeted manner between the DCB substrate and PCB in a gap A for the contact-connection of components on the DCB substrate via additive manufacturing and is formed so as to close the gap.

A circuit board includes a plurality of first insulating base materials and a plurality of second insulating base materials that are alternately laminated, a first metal layer being formed into a pattern shape on a first surface of the first insulating base material, and a second metal layer being formed into a pattern shape on a second surface of the first insulating base material. The first metal layer is formed into a trapezoidal shape that is large in diameter on a first surface side of the first insulating base material. The second metal layer is formed into a trapezoidal shape that is large in diameter on a second surface side of the first insulating base material. The first metal layers and the second metal layers are laminated in such a manner that the trapezoidal shapes are alternately oriented.