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Electronic system including packaged integrated circuits with heat spreading standoff support members

US6008991A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 24, 1997
Grant dateDec 28, 1999
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Expiry dateJul 24, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L2924/0002
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic system such as a Board-Level-Product (BLP) includes at least one integrated circuit device which is mounted on a circuit board. Each integrated circuit device includes a thin dielectric substrate bearing a plurality of conductive leads and has a hole circumscribed by the substrate in which is positioned a die having pads that are bonded to ends of leads carried by the substrate and projecting into the hole for contact with the die pads. The leads include free outer ends that project laterally outwardly and downwardly away from the plane of the substrate for connection to contact pads on the circuit board. The free leads are isolated from pressure applied to the chip on tape assembly after it has been connected to a circuit board by means of a thin self-supporting thermally conductive heat spreader that contacts the side of the die opposite its pads and includes fixed standoff and/or alignment pins that extend through alignment holes in the thin substrate and are in physical contact with a surface of the printed circuit board. The arrangement enables transfer of force applied to the heat spreader directly to the circuit board, thereby isolating the die, thin substrate …

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