Component Carrier Layout With Local High-Density Interconnects

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Solution Overview

Problem

Efficient electrical connection and heat removal in component carriers with high-density components is challenging due to increasing miniaturization and the need for mechanical robustness and electrical reliability, especially under harsh conditions.

Innovation Solution

A component carrier with a stack comprising electrically conductive layer structures and insulating layers, featuring higher and lower density connection regions, allows for direct connection of surface-mounted components with increased density where needed, ensuring efficient signal integrity and heat removal without separate connecting members.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If high density connection regions are used to connect surface mounted components, then electrical connection efficiency and signal quality are improved, but manufacturing complexity and risk of delamination increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveelectrical connection efficiencyVSAvoidmanufacturing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements connection regions with spatially varying density characteristics. High density connection regions are localized at specific areas where surface mounted components are positioned, while other areas maintain lower connection density. This local differentiation optimizes electrical connection efficiency at component interfaces without uniformly increasing manufacturing complexity across the entire substrate, thereby resolving the contradiction between connection reliability and manufacturing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If high density connection regions are used to connect surface mounted components, then signal quality is improved, but risk of delamination and warpage increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesignal qualityVSAvoidstructural stability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent concentrates high connection density regions specifically at locations where surface mounted components are mounted, rather than distributing high density connections uniformly across the entire substrate. This localized approach enhances signal quality at critical component interfaces while minimizing the overall structural disturbance that causes delamination and warpage, thus resolving the contradiction between signal quality and structural stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Ease of manufacture

If conventional connection methods are used for surface mounted components, then manufacturing is simpler, but electrical connection efficiency and heat removal are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoidelectrical connection efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent maintains conventional manufacturing processes for the majority of the substrate while introducing localized high density connection regions specifically at areas where surface mounted components are positioned. This approach preserves manufacturing simplicity for standard areas while achieving superior electrical connection efficiency and heat removal performance at critical component interfaces, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing ease and connection reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12463124B2Component carrier with surface mounted components connected by high density connection region
Publication Date: 2025.11.04 AT & S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AG
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AI summary

A component carrier includes a stack with electrically conductive layer structures and at least one electrically insulating layer structure. The electrically conductive layer structures have a higher density connection region and a lower density connection region, and a first component and a second component which are surface-mounted on the stack. The first component and the second component are electrically coupled with each other by the higher density connection region.