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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998

Filed:

Nov. 15, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:

Ku Ho Chong, Arlington Heights, IL (US);

Charles Hayden Crockett, Jr, Austin, TX (US);

Stephen Alan Dunn, deceased, late of Georgetown, TX (US);

Karl Grant Hoebener, Georgetown, TX (US);

Michael George McMaster, Vernonia, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K / ; H05K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29852 ; 29830 ; 29847 ; 29879 ; 148 24 ; 148 26 ; 174266 ; 216 18 ; 252500 ; 427 97 ;
Abstract

A method of manufacturing a multiple layer circuit board with stacked vias of fine dimension and pitch. A base laminate with conductive pattern is coated with a dielectric which is photolithographically processed to create holes exposing selected regions of the underlying conductive pattern. The holes through the dielectric are plated to form via connections between the surface and the conductive pattern on the base laminate. The recess created by the via is filled with a conductive and plateable polymer which upon curing forms a conductive plug. A second dielectric layer is deposited on the board structure and in succession photolithographically processed to expose the underlying plated via and plug. The hole in the second dielectric is plated and filled with conductive polymer so as to create a second via vertically aligned with and electrically connected to the underlying first via. The ability to form fine pitch stacked vias is particularly important for printed circuit board structures such as carriers of flip chip die, in that the fine pitch of the solder ball array of the flip chip needs to be expanded and/or disbursed through multiple board layers with minimum area and electrical degradation.


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