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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:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joseph A. Abys, Warren, NJ (US);
Chonglun Fan, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Brian T. Smith, Somerville, NJ (US);
Bruce F. Stacy, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Chen Xu, New Providence, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 5/12 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D 5/12 ;
Abstract
A printed wiring board (PWB) and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the PWB includes: (1) a substrate having a conductive trace located thereon and (2) a multi-purpose finish including palladium alloy where palladium is alloyed with cobalt or a platinum group metal and is located on at least a portion of the conductive trace, which forms both a non-contact finish and a contact finish for the PWB.