Patent ID: 6531664
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: H01L,H05K,Y02P,Y10T

Abstract:
An assembly comprising:a circuit board; conductors that define a conductor pattern on the circuit board, each of the conductors having a reduced-width portion; a mask overlying the conductor pattern, the mask having an opening that exposes at least a portion of the reduced-width portion of each conductor, the exposed portion of each reduced-width portion having opposing first and second ends; a circuit device attached to the exposed portions of the conductors with solder connections, the solder connections of every other conductor in the conductor pattern being wider at the first ends of the exposed portions thereof than at the second ends thereof, the solder connections of intervening conductors being wider at the second ends of the exposed portions thereof than at the first ends thereof, wherein the solder connections of the intervening conductors alternate with the solder connections of every other conductor of the conductor pattern.