A connection FPC 75 includes a plurality of metal wires 750 between a support layer 751 and a covering layer 752, and an exposed region including contacts 753 serving as end portions of the metal wires 750 is exposed from the covering layer 752. A bending-position guide 760 is provided on the surface of the support layer 751 opposite from the surface on which the metal wires 750 are provided. An edge 760a of the bending-position guide 760 serves as a bending line along which the connection FPC 75 is bent and is disposed in a covering-layer projection area E where the covering layer 752 is projected on the support layer 751. The connection FPC 75 is bent at portions of the metal wires 750 covered with the covering layer 752, that is, at reinforced portions.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods using thermal vias to increase the current-carrying capacity of conductive traces on a multilayered printed circuit board (PCB). In various embodiments, parameters associated with vias may be selected to control various electrical and thermal properties of the conductive trace. Such parameters include the via diameter, a plating thickness, a number of vias, a placement of the vias, an amount of conductive material to be added or removed from the conductive trace, a change in the resistance of the conductive trace, a change in a fusing measurement of the conductive trace, and the like.

A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body and an external electrode. The ceramic body includes a first main surface and a second main surface that face in a first direction, internal electrodes laminated in the first direction, and a penetrating hole that has a diameter decreasing from the first main surface toward the second main surface and includes a tapered surface, the internal electrodes being exposed on the tapered surface. The external electrode includes a first conductive layer disposed along the tapered surface, and a second conductive layer disposed along the first main surface and connected to the first conductive layer.

A circuit board with improved heat dissipation function and a method for manufacturing the circuit board are provided. The circuit board includes a heat dissipation substrate, an insulating layer on the heat dissipation substrate, an electronic component, a base layer on the insulating layer, and a circuit layer on the base layer. The heat dissipation substrate includes a phase change structure and a heat conductive layer wrapping the phase change structure. The heat dissipation substrate defines a first through hole. The insulating layer defines a groove for receiving the electronic component. A second through hole is defined in the circuit layer, the base layer, and the insulating layer. A bottom of the second through hole corresponds to the heat conductive layer. A heat conductive portion is disposed in the second through hole.

A method of making leak tight electrical connections through the wall of a ceramic package, for example a ceramic package used on an image intensifier tube. The method comprises a hole metallisation step (500) to obtain vias, the metallisation step comprising the deposition of a bond layer (510), a diffusion barrier (520) acting as a metallic base layer and a wetting agent (530). For each via, a filler metal preform made of indium or a eutectic chosen from among InSn, AuSn, AuGe, AgSn is deposited (540) on each orifice and is heated to a temperature higher than its melting temperature (550) such that the molten filler metal closes off the via to make it leak tight.

A power conversion device includes a first electrical component, a second electrical component, a housing, a board, and a guide part. The first and second electrical components are accommodated in and fixed to the housing. The board has first through holes into which first signal terminals of the first electrical components are inserted, and second through holes into which second signal terminals of the second electrical components are inserted. The guide part is connected to the board so that guide holes formed therein are aligned with the second through holes. The first signal terminals are connected to the board through a first connection portion, and the second signal terminals are connected to the board through a second connection portion. A number of the first through holes disposed per unit area is greater than a number of second through holes disposed per unit area.

An electronic device with high density for component arrangement includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plural of passages formed through the first and the second substrates, a first contact arranged on the first face of the first substrate to conceal the corresponding one of the passages, a second contact arranged on the second substrate and adjacent to the corresponding one of the passages, and a conductor disposed in the passages. A first end of the conductor electrically connects the first contact, while a second end of the conductor electrically connects the second contact.

A circuit board with improved heat dissipation function and a method for manufacturing the circuit board are provided. The circuit board includes a heat dissipation substrate, an insulating layer on the heat dissipation substrate, an electronic component, a base layer on the insulating layer, and a circuit layer on the base layer. The heat dissipation substrate includes a phase change structure and a heat conductive layer wrapping the phase change structure. The heat dissipation substrate defines a first through hole. The insulating layer defines a groove for receiving the electronic component. A second through hole is defined in the circuit layer, the base layer, and the insulating layer. A bottom of the second through hole corresponds to the heat conductive layer. A heat conductive portion is disposed in the second through hole.

A flexible printed circuit for bridging is provided. The flexible printed circuit has at least one via, at least one overflow groove is provided at a first distance from an edge of the via, and the overflow groove is provided in a cover layer on a side of a soldering surface of the flexible printed circuit.

An apparatus includes a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes at least one conductive layer on top a first dielectric layer, wherein the at least one conductive layer comprises at least one of a ground plane and a power plane. The printed circuit board includes a second dielectric layer on top of the at least one conductive layer. The printed circuit board includes a thermal pad on top of the second dielectric layer. The printed circuit board is fabricated by forming at least one plated through hole for electrically coupling the thermal pad to the at least one conductive layer. The printed circuit board is fabricated by backdrilling the at least one plated through hole to remove a portion of the conductive material, wherein subsequent to the backdrilling the conductive material remaining in the at least one plated through hole electrically couples one or more of the at least one conductive layer to the thermal pad.