Robert Boschgmbh

Klaus Kuttner

Gunter Kruger

Fedor Modic

Erich Leinauer

Manfred Widmaier

A thin film path of medium resistivity provided by a strip of tantalum by which a design parameter of an electronic component is determined is modified by making contact with the path by an electrode having an electrolyte at its tip in passing an anodizing current into the path through the electrode that is much smaller in value than the normal current flowing through the path under design conditions of operation. In consequence, the current injected to produce chemical change in the resistance has a negligible effect on the characteristics of operation of the component and the component can have operating conditions applied to it during the trimming process can be carried while the component is under operating conditions and the parameter to be adjusted is being measured, so that the measurements of the parameter can control the current injected through the electrode so as to shut it off when the desired value of the measured parameter is reached. When the difference between actual and desired values reaches a certain small value, it is advantageous to switch over the current source for the electrode to a lower value of current in order to make possible a closer approach to the design value.

Method of trimming electronic components having an integrated circuit to

After a valve metal layer on an insulating substrate has been metallized by sputtering on two layers of copper separated by an intermediate layer of iron, nickel or cobalt, and the combined circuit and component pattern has been etched out, followed by selectively etching away the metallization over the resistance components of the circuit, electroless deposited nickel and gold layers are successively applied to the remaining metallization and a solder layer is then applied on top by contact with liquid solder.

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