An IC unit unloading system including a chute and a drawer. The chute has a plurality of channels each arranged to receive a unit. The drawer is arranged to move along the chute and has a gate with a unit contact face proximate a top surface of the chute. The contact face is arranged to draw the units along the respective channel as the drawer moves along the chute, and to allow the units to slide laterally across the contact face from a first pitch of each channel to a second pitch. A method for washing a plurality of PCB units, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of PCB units, said PCB units arranged with a bump face projecting downwards; washing the bump face of the PCB units, then; flipping the PCB units so as to project the ball face downwards, then; washing the ball face.

An IC unit unloading system including a chute and a drawer. The chute has a plurality of channels each arranged to receive a unit. The drawer is arranged to move along the chute and has a gate with a unit contact face proximate a top surface of the chute. The contact face is arranged to draw the units along the respective channel as the drawer moves along the chute, and to allow the units to slide laterally across the contact face from a first pitch of each channel to a second pitch. A method for washing a plurality of PCB units, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of PCB units, said PCB units arranged with a bump face projecting downwards; washing the bump face of the PCB units, then; flipping the PCB units so as to project the ball face downwards, then; washing the ball face.

The present disclosure generally relates to printed circuit boards or printed circuit board assemblies for fiber optic communications. In one example, an optoelectronic assembly may include a printed circuit board including a laser-roughened area, at least one optoelectronic component coupled to a surface of the printed circuit board, and an optical component attached to the printed circuit board. The coupling area may be defined by the optical component contacting the printed circuit board, and the laser-roughened area may be positioned entirely within the coupling area defined by the optical component contacting the printed circuit board.

A display device includes: a display substrate including a display area and a pad area disposed around the display area; a signal wiring disposed over the display area and the pad area on the display substrate; at least one wiring pad including: a pad pattern portion disposed on the pad area of the display substrate and electrically connected to the signal wiring; and a separation pattern portion separated from the pad pattern portion by a separation space; and a printed circuit board attached to the pad area of the display substrate, the printed circuit board including a lead wiring connected to the at least one wiring pad.

A display device includes: a display substrate including a display area and a pad area disposed around the display area; a signal wiring disposed over the display area and the pad area on the display substrate; at least one wiring pad including: a pad pattern portion disposed on the pad area of the display substrate and electrically connected to the signal wiring; and a separation pattern portion separated from the pad pattern portion by a separation space; and a printed circuit board attached to the pad area of the display substrate, the printed circuit board including a lead wiring connected to the at least one wiring pad.

The invention pertains to a method for the bonding of a component embedded into a printed circuit board exhibiting the following steps: Provision of a core exhibiting at least one insulating layer and at least one conductor layer applied to the insulating layer, Embedding of at least one component into a recess of the insulating layer, wherein the contacts of the component are essentially situated in the plane of an outer surface of the core exhibiting the at least one conductor layer, Application of a photoimageable resist onto the one outer surface of the core on which the component is arranged, while filling the spaces between the contacts of the component, Clearing of end faces of the contacts and of the areas of the conductor layer covered by the photoimageable resist by exposing and developing the photoimageable resist, by application of a semi-additive process, deposition of a layer of conductor material onto the cleared end faces of the contacts and the cleared areas of the conductor layer and formation of a conductor pattern on at least the one outer surface of the core on which the component is arranged, as well as the interconnecting paths between the contacts and the conductor pattern, and Removal of the areas of the conductor layer not belonging to the conductor pattern.

The invention pertains to a method for the bonding of a component embedded into a printed circuit board exhibiting the following steps: Provision of a core exhibiting at least one insulating layer and at least one conductor layer applied to the insulating layer, Embedding of at least one component into a recess of the insulating layer, wherein the contacts of the component are essentially situated in the plane of an outer surface of the core exhibiting the at least one conductor layer, Application of a photoimageable resist onto the one outer surface of the core on which the component is arranged, while filling the spaces between the contacts of the component, Clearing of end faces of the contacts and of the areas of the conductor layer covered by the photoimageable resist by exposing and developing the photoimageable resist, by application of a semi-additive process, deposition of a layer of conductor material onto the cleared end faces of the contacts and the cleared areas of the conductor layer and formation of a conductor pattern on at least the one outer surface of the core on which the component is arranged, as well as the interconnecting paths between the contacts and the conductor pattern, and Removal of the areas of the conductor layer not belonging to the conductor pattern.

A method for manufacturing a wiring substrate includes forming a plating film on a metal foil laminated on a surface of an insulating layer, forming an etching resist on the plating film such that the etching resist has an opening for forming a conductor pattern, conducting a first etching process such that part of the plating film exposed from the opening of the etching resist is removed and that part of the metal foil is exposed, removing the etching resist from the plating film on the metal foil laminated on the surface of an insulating layer, and conducting a second etching process such that the part of the metal foil exposed by the first etching process is removed and that a conductor layer having the conductor pattern is formed on the surface of the insulating layer.

A method for manufacturing a wiring substrate includes forming a plating film on a metal foil laminated on a surface of an insulating layer, forming an etching resist on the plating film such that the etching resist has an opening for forming a conductor pattern, conducting a first etching process such that part of the plating film exposed from the opening of the etching resist is removed and that part of the metal foil is exposed, removing the etching resist from the plating film on the metal foil laminated on the surface of an insulating layer, and conducting a second etching process such that the part of the metal foil exposed by the first etching process is removed and that a conductor layer having the conductor pattern is formed on the surface of the insulating layer.

A method of the invention is a method of processing a wiring substrate that includes a configuration in which conductors locally disposed on a substrate are coated with resin having inorganic members that form a filler and are dispersed in an organic member, the method including: removing the organic member from a surface layer side of the resin by use of an ashing method; and removing, by use of a wet cleaning method, the inorganic members remaining the surface layer side of the resin from which the organic member is removed.