U.S. Philips Corporation

Philips Electronics N.v.

Werner Uggowitzer

Helmut Bruckner

Siegfried Kopnick

Rudolf Drabek

Process for manufacturing a printed circuit board and printed circuit

Two-layer or multilayer printed circuit board, method of manufacturing such a printed circuit board, and laminate for the manufacture of such a printed circuit board by such a method. A two-layer or multilayer printed circuit board (1) comprises a support plate (2) which consists of a basic material and which carries a first conductor pattern (3) and a second conductor pattern (17) connected to the support plate (2) via an adhesive layer (11)consisting of an electrically insulating adhesive material. At least one opening (12, 13) is provided in the adhesive layer (1 1), which opening leads to a connecting section (4, 5) of the first conductor pattern (3) and to which a connecting section (18, 19) of the second conductor pattern (17) extends, and by means of which the connecting sections (4, 5, 18, 19) of the two conductor patterns (3, 17) can be electrically interconnected by means of an electrically conducting material connection (28, 29). The adhesive layer (11) consists of an adhesive material which in a certain temperature range has a higher hardness than the region (2a) of the support plate (2) adjoining the first conductor pattern (3 ), and the first conductor pattern (3) is pressed into the support plate (2) by the adhesive layer (11) exclusively in its region covered by the adhesive layer (11) as a result of a pressing process for joining together the adhesive layer (11) and the support plate (2), while the region of each connecting section (4, 5) of the first conductor pattern (3) surrounded by an opening (12, 13) is given a curved shape in the direction of a connecting section (18, 19) of the second conductor pattern (17).

Method of manufacturing a multilayer printed circuit board having first

A two-layer or multilayer printed circuit board (1) comprises a support plate (2) carrying a first conductor pattern (3) and a second conductor pattern (21) which is connected to the support plate (2) via an adhesive layer (13) consisting of adhesive material, a solder-stop layer (30) being applied to the second conductor pattern. A hole (14, 15) is formed in the adhesive layer (13), via which hole a solder section (4, 5) of the first conductor pattern (3) can be electrically connected to a solder section (22, 23) of the second conductor pattern (21) via a soldered joint (37, 38), a further hole (31, 32) being formed in the solder-stop layer (30), which hole communicates with the hole (14, 15) in the adhesive layer (13), the cross-sectional area of the further hole being divisible in two areas of equal shape and equal surface content, one of the areas being coincident with the cross-sectional area of the hole (14, 15) in the adhesive layer (13) and the other area being situated completely inside a closed area of the solder section (22, 23) of the second conductor pattern (21).

Two-layer or multilayer printed circuit board

A two-layer or multilayer printed circuit board (1) comprises a support plate (2) which consists of a basic material and which carries a first conductor pattern (3) and a second conductor pattern (17) connected to the support plate (2) via an adhesive layer (11) consisting of an electrically insulating adhesive material. At least one opening (12, 13) is provided in the adhesive layer (11), which opening leads to a connecting section (4, 5) of the first conductor pattern (3) and to which a connecting section (18, 19) of the second conductor pattern (17) extends, and by means of which the connecting sections (4, 5, 18, 19) of the two conductor patterns (3, 17) can be electrically interconnected by means of an electrically conducting material connection (28, 29). The adhesive layer (11) consists of an adhesive material which in a certain temperature range has a higher hardness than the region (2a) of the support plate (2) adjoining the first conductor pattern (3 ), and the first conductor pattern (3) is pressed into the support plate (2) by the adhesive layer (11) exclusively in its region covered by the adhesive layer (11) as a result of a pressing process for joining together the adhesive layer (11) and the support plate (2), while the region of each connecting section (4, 5) of the first conductor pattern (3) surrounded by an opening (12, 13) is given a curved shape in the direction of a connecting section (18, 19) of the second conductor pattern (17).

A printed circuit board, in which the substrate (1) and interconnections (2) are masked by a solder-resistant lacquer mask consisting of two layers of lacquer (4,5), the lands (3) being left unmasked, one layer of lacquer (4), which extends to the edges of the lands (3) and directly masks the substrate (1), is provided at least in the region of the lands (3), and the other layer of lacquer (5) masks the interconnections (2), while leaving the lands (3) unmasked, and extends to the region occupied by the layer of lacquer (4) extending to the edges of the lands (3) the two layers overlapping.

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