To provide a wiring substrate, an electronic device, and an electronic module the size of which can be easily reduced and the strength of which can be maintained. A wiring substrate includes an insulation substrate and an electrical wiring structure. The insulation substrate includes a recess section in one surface. A frame portion of the insulation substrate that forms a side surface which connects an opened surface and a bottom surface of the recess section to each other includes a first conductive portion having a plate shape in the frame portion.

A component carrier includes a stack having at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure and a magnetic element assembled to the stack. The magnetic element includes a magnetic matrix and an inductive element. The inductive element is at least partially enclosed by the magnetic matrix, so that an electric current flow direction through the inductive element is essentially in a horizontal direction with respect to the stack. Further, a magnetic inlay and a manufacturing method are described.

To provide a wiring substrate, an electronic device, and an electronic module the size of which can be easily reduced and the strength of which can be maintained. A wiring substrate includes an insulation substrate and an electrical wiring structure. The insulation substrate includes a recess section in one surface. A frame portion of the insulation substrate that forms a side surface which connects an opened surface and a bottom surface of the recess section to each other includes a first conductive portion having a plate shape in the frame portion.

A wiring circuit board includes two insulating layers, a wiring layer, a pad portion, and a conductive connection portion. The wiring layer is on one side in a thickness direction of the first insulating layer, and has a contact portion. The second insulating layer is on one side in the thickness direction of the first insulating layer to cover the wiring layer. The pad portion is on one side in the thickness direction of the second insulating layer. The second insulating layer has a through opening portion and having an opening along at least a part of a peripheral end portion of the pad portion. The contact portion of the wiring layer faces the through opening portion. The conductive connection portion, is connected to at least the peripheral end portion of the pad portion, and the contact portion, and electrically connects the wiring layer to the pad portion.

A printed circuit board includes: a first insulating layer having a recess portion in one surface of the first insulating layer; a first circuit pattern embedded in the first insulating layer and being in contact with a lower surface of the recess portion; a second insulating layer disposed on the one surface of the first insulating layer to be disposed in at least a portion of the recess portion; and a via penetrating through at least a portion of the second insulating layer, disposed in the recess portion, and connected to the first circuit pattern.

A multiple layer printed circuit board including a plurality of layers, vertical interconnect accesses (VIAs), and a vertical interconnect access (VIA) bridge. The layers may include signal layers, prepreg substrate layers disposed between the signal layers, ground plane layers, wherein each of the ground plane layers abuts one of the prepreg substrate layers, inner signal layers, wherein each of the inner signal layers abuts one of the prepreg substrate layers, and a core substrate layer disposed between the signal layers, wherein two of the inner signal layers abut opposed sides of the core substrate layer. The VIAs extend through at least some of the layers, wherein each of the VIAs is formed by aligned apertures through adjoining ones of the prepreg substrate layers, ground plane layers, and inner signal layers. The VIA bridge is coupled to the VIAs to convey heat to a heat sink.

A flexible printed circuit board includes a base film having an insulating property and a conductive pattern laminated on one surface of the base film, and has a terminal connecting area toward one end edge of the conductive pattern, the flexible printed circuit board including a reinforcement member laminated on an opposite surface of the base film and situated at least at a position opposite the terminal connecting area, wherein the reinforcement member has one or more lines of hollow holes aligning with a width direction thereof.

A component carrier includes an electrically insulating layer structure having a first main surface and a second main surface with a through hole extending through the electrically insulating layer structure between the first main surface and the second main surface. An electrically conductive bridge structure connects opposing sidewalls of the electrically insulating layer structure delimiting the through hole. A vertical thickness of the electrically insulating layer structure is not more than 200 μm and a narrowest vertical thickness of the bridge structure is at least 20 μm.

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 printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including attachment layers and routing layers; and via patterns formed in the plurality of layers, each of the via patterns including first and second signal vias forming a differential signal pair, the first and second signal vias extending through at least the attachment layers; ground vias extending through at least the attachment layers, the ground vias including ground conductors; and shadow vias located adjacent to each of the first and second signal vias, wherein the shadow vias are free of conductive material in the attachment layers. The printed circuit board may further include slot vias extending through the attachment layers and located between via patterns.