The concepts, systems, circuits and techniques described herein are directed toward a spiral antenna which may be provided using additive manufacturing technology so as to provide an antenna capable of operation at frequencies which are higher than spiral antennas manufactured using standard photo-etch or printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing processes.

A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer having a through hole, and a via disposed to fill the through hole and to be extended to at least one surface of the first insulating layer, wherein the via includes a plating layer having an inner wall part disposed on an inner wall of the through hole and a land part extended from the inner wall part and disposed on the at least one surface of the first insulating layer, and a metal paste layer including metal particles, and filled in the rest of the through hole and disposed on the plating layer.

An apparatus and a method are disclosed for producing an electric terminal contact on a coated sheet, whose coating has at least one electric conductor path covered by an electrical insulation layer, in which apparatus and method a recess is produced extending through the insulation layer at least to the electrical conductor path and in this recess, an electrically conductive contact element is provided, one end of which is electrically connected to the conductor path and at the other end of which forms the electrical terminal contact. In order to increase the reproducibility, the proposal is made for the recess to be produced with the aid of a hollow needle, which is advanced in the direction toward the conductor path and which, as it is withdrawn from the recess, introduces an electrically conductive, viscous compound into this recess in order to produce the contact element.

A method of making an electronic device may include forming at least one circuit layer that includes solder pads on a substrate and forming at least one liquid crystal polymer (LCP) solder mask having mask openings therein. The method may also include forming at least one thin film resistor on the LCP solder mask and coupling the at least one LCP solder mask to the substrate so that the at least one thin film resistor is coupled to the at least one circuit layer and so that the solder pads are aligned with the mask openings.

To provide a manufacturing method of a laminate body, including: a step of forming onto a supporting body a curable resin composition layer formed from a thermosetting resin composition to obtain a curable resin composition layer with a supporting body; a step of laminating the curable resin composition onto a substrate on a curable resin composition layer forming surface side to obtain a pre-cured composite with a supporting body formed from a substrate and a curable resin composition layer with a supporting body; a step of performing a first heating of the pre-cured composite and thermally curing the curable resin composition layer to obtain a cured composite with a supporting body formed from a substrate and a cured resin layer with a supporting body; a step of performing hole punching from the supporting body side of the cured composite with a supporting body to form a via hole in the cured resin layer; step of removing resin residue in the via hole of the cured composite with a supporting body; a step of peeling the supporting body from the cured composite with a supporting body to obtain a cured composite formed from a substrate and a cured resin layer, and a step of forming a dry plated conductor layer by dry plating on an inner wall surface of the via hole of the cured composite and on the cured resin layer.

A method includes forming one or more vias in a first layer, forming one or more vias in at least a second layer different than the first layer, aligning at least a first via in the first layer with at least a second via in the second layer, and bonding the first layer to the second layer by filling the first via and the second via with solder material using injection molded soldering.

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.

A substrate for a printed circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a base film having insulating properties and a sintered layer formed of a plurality of metal particles, the sintered layer being stacked on at least one surface of the base film, in which a region of the sintered layer extending from an interface between the sintered layer and the base film to a position 500 nm or less from the interface has a porosity of 1% or more and 50% or less.

Provided are a light board, a method for manufacturing the same, a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight module and an LED backlight device. The light board includes a substrate and a LED device. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface disposed opposite to each other. The first surface and the second surface are each provided with a wiring area and a non-wiring area. A first heat sink assembly and multiple first reinforcement ribs are disposed in the non-wiring area of the first surface. The multiple first reinforcement ribs intersect to form a first encircled area. The first heat sink assembly is disposed in the first encircled area. The LED device is disposed in the wiring area of the second surface.

A component carrier with an asymmetric build-up, which includes (a) a core; (b) a first stack at a first main surface of the core, the first stack having at least one first electrically conductive layer structure and a plurality of first electrically insulating layer structures; and (c) a second stack at a second main surface of the core, the second stack having at least one second electrically conductive layer structure and a plurality of second electrically insulating layer structures. At least two of the second electrically insulating layer structures are in direct contact with each other and each one of these electrically insulating layer structures has a smaller thickness than and/or includes a different material property than one of the first electrically insulating layer structures. Further described are methods for designing and manufacturing such an asymmetric component carrier.