Ex Parte GEDNEY et al - Page 73



              Appeal 2006-1454                                                                                         
              Application 09/004,524                                                                                   
              Patent 5,483,421                                                                                         

                    providing a pattern of conductors on said chip carrier connected to                                
              accommodate said input/output pads;                                                                      
                    forming a first set of solder connections between the input/output pads on                         
              the chip and said first set of bonding pads on the chip carrier;                                         
                    an encapsulation material encapsulating said first set of solder connections;                      
                    forming a second set of bonding pads on the second surface of the chip                             
              carrier arranged in an array;                                                                            
                    forming electrically conducting vias through the chip carrier to connect said                      
              first set of bonding pads to the second set of bonding pads;                                             
                    providing a circuit board formed of an organic material having a coefficient                       
              of thermal expansion similar to the chip carrier;                                                        
                    forming a set of electrical connection sites on said circuit board arranged in a                   
              pattern corresponding to the pattern of the array of the second bonding pads on                          
              said chip carrier;                                                                                       
                    forming a second set of solder connections between the pads of said second                         
              set of bonding pads on the chip carrier and the connection sites on the circuit                          
              board; and                                                                                               
                    forming wiring on said circuit board connected to said second set of bonding                       
              pads.                                                                                                    
                    8. The method of claim 7 wherein said chip carrier and said circuit board are                      
              formed of the same material.                                                                             
                    9. (Cancelled)                                                                                     
                    10. The method as defined in claim 7 wherein said first set of solder                              
              connections is formed of a higher melting point solder than said second set of                           
              solder connections.                                                                                      
                    11. The method as defined in claim 7 further characterized by first bonding                        
              pads being more closely spaced to each other than said second bonding pads.                              
                    12. The method as defined in claim 7 wherein the thermal coefficient of                            
              expansions of the material of the chip carrier and the material of the circuit board                     
              do not differ by more than about 20%.                                                                    

                                                        - 73 -                                                         

Page:  Previous  66  67  68  69  70  71  72  73  74  75  76  77  78  79  80  Next

Last modified: September 9, 2013