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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:
Apr. 03, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiromitsu Hatano, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/304 ; B29C 4/526 ; H05K 7/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/304 ; B29C 4/526 ; H05K 7/20 ;
Abstract
An integrated circuit package is configured to host an electric circuit chip therein and have connected thereto a set of external terminals that provide electrical connections between the electric circuit chip and components that are external to the integrated circuit package. The set of external terminals is arranged in subsets, where each subset includes a predetermined number of external terminals that are arranged in a stepped configuration, so as to reduce an overall size of the integrated circuit package.