Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Helmut Hadwiger

Hans Schmidt

Eddy Roelants

Hans-Fr Schmidt

Milan Prochazka

A solder resist and a positively-acting photoresist are successively applied on a surface-wide basis onto a printed circuit board, whereupon the photoresist is selectively exposed and developed in the region of plated-through holes and/or solder pads of a printed conductor pattern carried on the printed circuit board, preferably with the assistance of laser beams. Subsequently, the solder resist is stripped in the regions not protected by the photoresist, i.e. in the regions of plated-through holes and/or solder pads and, as a last step, the remaining photoresist is likewise stripped. The method is particularly suited for the application of a solder resist layer onto three-dimensional printed circuit boards since traditional mask techniques for structuring the solder resist cannot be employed with respect to three-dimensional printed circuit boards.

Method for applying a solder resist layer to a printed circuit board

A method for the manufacturing of a metal core pc board which provides for manufacturing of two or three dimensional metal core pc boards of any form. The manufacturing of such pc boards can occur by injection molding, injection/compression methods or by a pressing method. High-heat resistant thermoplastics, as well as thermoset plastics are preferably used as pc board materials. A metal with good thermal conductibility is used for the core. The material is selected such that the thermal expansion coefficients of the metal core and the pc board material are optimally equal. The manufacturing contains the following steps: lamination of the metal plate with a plastic foil on one or both sides; placing of such prepared metal core in an injection molding tool; and thermoforming the plastic on the laminated core over the plastic foil.

Method for manufacturing metal core printed circuit boards

A method for the manufacturing of a metal core pc board which provides for manufacturing of two or three dimensional metal core pc boards of any form with or without throughplating. The manufacturing of such pc boards can occur by injection molding, injection/compressing molding or by a pressing method. High-heat resistant thermoplastics, as well as duroplastics are preferably employed as pc board materials. A metal with good thermal conductibility is used for the core. The material is selected such that the thermal expansion coefficients of the metal core and the pc board material are optimally equal. The manufacturing contains the following steps: lamination of the metal plate with a plastic foil on one or both sides; introduction of the desired hole pattern with a corresponding over dimension into the laminated metal plate; placing of such prepared metal core in an injection molding tool; and thermoforming the plastic on the laminated core over the plastic foil and simultaneously filling out the holes to a final dimension with the plastic.

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Munich, Germany

Helmut Hadwiger