A circuit board includes a plurality of circuit board areas, wherein the individual circuit board areas include at least one layer made of an in insulating base material and a conducting pattern located on or in, the base material, the following is provided: a substrate material, at least one registration mark formed in the substrate material, a first circuit board area arranged on the substrate material, at least one additional circuit board area, which substantially adjoins the first circuit board area or at least partially overlaps the first circuit board, the additional circuit board areas being oriented relative to the registration mark, and a plurality of connections of the conducting patterns of the first circuit board area and of the at least one additional circuit board area. Thus improved registration and orientation can be achieved when circuit board areas are coupled.

A substrate position detection device includes: an irradiator that irradiates a predetermined range of a substrate with a predetermined light; an imager that takes an image of the predetermined range of the substrate irradiated with the predetermined light; a moving mechanism that causes a relative movement of the imager and the substrate; and a controller that: detects a position of the substrate by sequentially executing to a plurality of recognition objects on the substrate: a moving process of relatively moving the imager to a position corresponding to a predetermined recognition object among the plurality of recognition objects on the substrate; an imaging process of taking an image of the predetermined recognition object under a predetermined imaging condition; and a recognition process of recognizing the predetermined recognition object based on image data obtained by the imaging process.

A method for enabling self-aligning light-emitting diodes is provided. The method includes printing a die architecture including solders having a bond line thickness according to a printed circuit board design and placing light-emitting diodes in corresponding placement positions onto the solders. The method includes implementing a reflow process that includes a self-alignment effect for the light-emitting diodes. The self-alignment effect comprises creating surface tension forces while the solders are molten that pull or hold the light-emitting diodes to or at final positions.

A display device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, which is on the periphery of the display area, a light-emitting element disposed on the first substrate and in the display area, a display signal line which is disposed on the first substrate and in the display area, extends in a first direction, and transmits a signal to the light-emitting element, a common voltage supply line disposed on the first substrate and in the non-display area, a pad disposed on the first substrate and in the non-display area, and electrically connected to the display signal line, and an indentation pad disposed on the first substrate and in the non-display area, and electrically connected to the common voltage supply line, where the indentation pad is disposed closer than the pad to edges of the first substrate in a second direction, which intersects the first direction.

In one embodiment, a motherboard to be cut, includes: a motherboard body provided, on a surface thereof, with a cutting line comprising a special-shaped cutting line section, wherein, a plurality of positional marker groups are provided on a portion of the surface where the special-shaped cutting line section is provided; each positional marker group includes a first marker assembly and a second marker assembly provided at both sides of the special-shaped cutting line section; and, in the arrangement direction of the first marker assembly and the second marker assembly, size of the first marker assembly is not less than tolerance size of a side of the special-shaped cutting line section where the first marker assembly is in, and size of the second marker assembly is not less than tolerance size of a side of the special-shaped cutting line section where the second marker assembly is in.

In a device for producing and/or processing a workpiece, in particular circuit boards, in a work station, in particular for printing a corresponding blank or for checking finished circuit boards, at least one mark is provided on the workpiece. In this arrangement, at least one reference, which can be brought into alignment with the mark, is provided in the work station.

LEDs for an illumination system may be mounted on a PCB. The PCB may be provided with alignment features such as oversized holes for connection to a support surface. Using optical sensing of the position of the mounted LEDs, the space made available by the alignment features may be reduced and aligned to create modified alignment features. The modified alignment features may be created by adding a modifying component and aligned based on the sensed positions of the mounted LEDs. The positioning of the modifying component may offset misalignment of the LEDs with the PCB. An opening in the modified alignment feature may receive a bolt or alignment pin for connection to the support surface. The support surface may be aligned with the secondary optics, resulting in the LEDs being aligned with the secondary optics irrespective of misalignment of the LEDs with respect to the PCB.

The disclosure discloses a display panel, a detection method thereof, a flexible printed circuit, and a display device. The flexible printed circuit includes a second bonding area, a plurality of contact pins and at least one test pin group are arranged in the second bonding area; the contact pins are configured to be bonded respectively with corresponding contact pads in the first bonding area; the test pin group is configured to be bonded with a corresponding test pad group in the first bonding area; the test pin group includes test pins; and the test pin group is configured so that after bonding, bonding states of the contact pins with the contact pads are determined by detecting conducting or non-conducting state between the test pins and the corresponding test pads.

An electronic component includes a multilayer body including insulating base materials laminated on each other and including first and second main surfaces perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a lamination direction, and an alignment mark is defined by a conductor on one of the insulating base materials. The multilayer body includes a first layer area at a side of the first main surface and a second layer area at a side of the second main surface with respect to the alignment mark. An insulating base material in the first layer area has higher translucency than an insulating base material in the second layer area. The alignment mark is a trapezoidal cross-sectional shape including a first base at the side of the first main surface and a second base at the side of second main surface, the first base being longer than the second base.

A display device includes: a display panel including a display area and a non-display area; a flexible printed circuit board overlapping and attached to the display panel; a pair of first alignment indicia disposed in the non-display area; a pair of second alignment indicia adjacent to the first alignment indicia; a pair of third alignment indicia disposed on the flexible printed circuit board.