Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Xinglong Gong

Seiji Oda

Hiroshi Uehara

Susumu Negishi

Tatsunobu Shibuya

Yasuo Sakaba

Toshikatsu Makuta

There is provided a crystal oscillator in which a crystal blank and an integrated circuit (IC) chip are accommodated in a vessel and the IC chip is fixed through a bump to the bottom surface of the vessel by means of ultrasonic thermocompression bonding. The IC chip contains an oscillation circuit utilizing the crystal blank and has a plurality of terminal electrodes on a major surface thereof. A plurality of connection terminal portions are formed on the bottom surface of the concave portion of the vessel so that each of the connection terminal portions corresponds to one of the terminal electrodes. Each of the connection terminal portions is formed into a rectangular shape and the width of each connection terminal portion is identical. The terminal electrodes and the connection terminal portions are bonded to each other through a bump by means of ultrasonic thermocompression bonding. Thus, the IC chip is fixed to the bottom surface of the concave portion of the vessel.

Crystal oscillator and method of bonding IC chip useful for fabricating crystal oscillator

There is provided a crystal oscillator including a vessel main body having a concave portion, a cover bonded to the vessel main body so as to form an encapsulated vessel together with the vessel main body, a crystal blank held within the vessel, an IC (integrated circuit) chip containing an oscillating circuit utilizing the crystal blank and having a plurality of IC terminals on a major surface thereof, a plurality of circuit terminals formed on a bottom surface of the concave portion of the vessel main body at positions corresponding to the positions of the IC terminals, respectively. The IC chip is fixed to the bottom surface of the concave portion of the vessel main body by effecting face down bonding so that the IC terminals are bonded to the circuit terminals through bumps. At least one of the IC terminals is a group-arranged terminal including a plurality of unit terminals commonly connected to one another, and the plurality of unit terminals are s connected to corresponding circuit terminals through respective bumps.

Crystal oscillator and method of fabricating the same

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