An electrical contact pad for electrically contacting a connector includes first, second and third regions. The first region is connected to a trace. The second region is adjacent to the first region and has a width less than the first region. The third region is adjacent to the second region and has a width that is greater than the second region. The third region is sized to make contact with a connector. Having the width of the second region be smaller than the width of the first and third regions increases an impedance of the electrical contact pad.

A package including an electronic leadless module having a top side, a bottom side and side faces between the top side and the bottom side, the electronic leadless module having an electronic circuit, a plurality of electrical contact pads at the bottom side of the electronic leadless module which are electrically conductively coupled to the electronic circuit, and encapsulation material which partially encapsulates the electronic circuit, wherein the electrical contact pads are at least partially free from encapsulation material and the electronic leadless module have an anchoring region on at least one side face. The package may also include a carrier frame which carries the electronic leadless module, with the side face extending further in the direction of the carrier frame below the anchoring region than in the anchoring region, and filler material in the anchoring region for fastening the electronic leadless module to the carrier frame.

One embodiment provides a circuit board having a substrate and an electrode portion which is provided on the substrate. The electrode portion includes: a quadrangular land which is provided on a front surface of the substrate; a solder layer which is laminated on the whole of a front surface of the land; and a pad which is joined to a front surface of the solder layer. When the electrode portion is seen from thereabove, an outer circumferential line of the pad touches each of four sides of the land. Exposed portions where the solder layer is exposed are formed individually at four corners of a front surface of the electrode portion. And, the exposed portions are formed to have the same shape.

A package includes a conductive pad, with a plurality of openings penetrating through the conductive pad. A dielectric layer encircles the conductive pad. The dielectric layer has portions filling the plurality of openings. An Under-Bump Metallurgy (UBM) includes a via portion extending into the dielectric layer to contact the conductive pad. A solder region is overlying and contacting the UBM. An integrated passive device is bonded to the UBM through the solder region.

An apparatus includes a printed circuit board and a flexible printed circuit. A rigid structure component is on a first side of the printed circuit board. An interconnection interface is on a second side of the printed circuit board opposite to the rigid structure component and is configured to interconnect the flexible printed circuit and the printed circuit board. A conductive interconnection material is at the interconnection interface between the flexible printed circuit and the printed circuit board.

A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer, and a conductor layer formed on the insulating layer and including a mesh-like conductor pattern and conductor pads such that the mesh-like conductor pattern has openings exposing the insulating layer and that the conductor pads are formed at substantially centers of selected ones or all of the openings respectively. The conductor layer is formed such that each of the openings has a polygonal shape, that gaps are formed between the conductor pads and the conductor pattern surrounding the conductor pads, and that each of the conductor pads has a curved outer edge.

Systems and methods for magnetic coupling. One system includes an external computing device and a connector having a conductive end. The system also includes a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a connector side opposite a back side. The connector side has a contact pad with an aperture. The printed circuit board also includes a magnet positioned on the back side of the printed circuit board. The magnet provides a magnetic field configured to provide magnetic attraction forces to a connector contacting the contact pad. The printed circuit board also includes a communication terminal. The system also includes a circuit in communication with the printed circuit board through the connector and contact pad.

An electronic package assembly is provided. The electronic package assembly includes a package substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite thereto. A plurality of conductive pads is disposed on the first surface. A chip is mounted onto the first surface of the package substrate. A circuit board is mounted onto the second surface of the package substrate, and includes an electrical connector. A plurality of electrical contact components is electrically connected to the electrical connector and is in contact with the plurality of conductive pads.

A wiring board manufacturing method includes forming a conductor pattern within a waste board section of a wiring board including a product section and the waste board section, the conductor pattern in which a plurality of polygonal lands made of a conductor are arranged along a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the plurality of polygonal lands making contact with an adjacent one of the plurality of polygonal lands at each apex of the plurality of polygonal lands; and selectively removing the conductor at the apex of at least part of the plurality of polygonal lands.

Various exemplary embodiments relate to a printed circuit board (PCB) for electrically connecting a surface mount component including: a plurality of metal pads on the surface of one side of the PCB corresponding to connection points on the component, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of metal pads have stubs which extend outside the boundary of the surface mount component when the surface mount component is mounted to the PCB; and wherein the stubs have sufficient thermal conductivity to facilitate at least one of the set of dismounting and reattaching of the surface mount component.