Nec Corporation

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Eiichi Ogawa

Hiroshi Komano

Kazuaki Utsumi

Koji Matsui

Toshimi Aoyama

Mitsuru Kimura

An integrated circuit connecting method that includes connecting electrode pads on an integrated circuit device to electrode terminals on a base with metal bumps interposed, the electrode terminals being formed in registry with the electrode pads. The method includes the steps of forming metal bumps on a surface of at least one of the electrode pads and the electrode terminals; covering the surface on at least one of the integrated circuit device side and the base side with a resin that cures upon exposure to active energy rays; patterning the resin to strip selectively the coating of the resin over one of the electrode pads and the electrode terminals; bringing the electrode pads and the electrode terminals into a face-to-face relationship, allowing the metal bumps to contact one of the opposing electrode pads and electrode terminals, performing thermocompressing so that the resin coating will adhere closely to one of the integrated circuit device and the base while, at the same time, the electrode pads are connected to the electrode terminals with the metal bumps interposed; and performing at least one of heat treatment and exposure to active energy rays.

Method of bonding circuit boards

A method of bonding first and second circuit boards includes applying a light-sensitive adhesive over the first electrodes on a first circuit board and the areas where the first electrodes are not formed, and drying the applied adhesive to form a light-sensitive adhesive layer having the light-sensitive adhesive layer exposed selectively to active rays of light and performing development to remove only the light-sensitive adhesive layer on the first electrodes, and then performing a heat treatment to impart bonding quality to the light-sensitive adhesive layer remaining between adjacent first electrodes, placing the first and second circuit boards one on top of the other and thermocompressing the two circuit boards to have the first electrodes connected electrically to the second electrodes to form a single circuit board; and performing a heat treatment and/or exposure to active rays of light on the formed single circuit board.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Eiichi Ogawa