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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:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philip W. Doberenz, Tigard, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/204 ; H05K 1/11 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/204 ; H05K 1/11 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a circuit board having a plurality of voids in a conductive reference plane to increase the characteristic impedance of a signal trace. The circuit board of the present invention comprises a conductive reference plane having a plurality of voids formed therein, and a signal trace formed over the conductive reference plane.