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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
John F Haarde, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ; H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
174 685 ; 29843 ; 361403 ;
Abstract
A printed wiring board is disclosed which has one or more solder pads of special configuration which receive and contain excess solder which might otherwise bridge adjacent downstream leads of a component having closely spaced leads when the component is mounted to the printed circuit board in a wave-soldering process. The special solder pad configuration may be viewed as an extra solder pad (a 'robber pad') at the downstream end of a linear array of solder pads which is connected to the adjacent upstream solder pad by a solder-wettable bridge.