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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. 02, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 19, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard J August, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
216 16 ; 338 42 ;
Abstract
An electronic component includes a substrate (201) with a surface (202), a resistor structure (210) supported by the substrate, and a passivation layer (300, 805) over the resistor and the surface of the substrate where the passivation layer has a hole (311, 312, 611, 612, 613, 614, 711, 811), where the surface of the substrate has a compressive portion and a tensile portion, and where the resistor is located between the compressive and tensile portions of the surface.