Patent ID: 7409661

Claim:
A computer-aided thermal relief pad design system, comprising: a depicting unit for depicting an elongated oval pattern of a thermal relief pad, the elongated oval pattern having two perpendicular axes intersecting at a center point, the two perpendicular axes dividing the elongated oval pattern into four isometric parts, each two neighboring isometric parts being spaced by a thermal channel, and each isometric part comprising a plurality of terminals; a memory unit for storing formulae defining predetermined relationships between lengths of the two perpendicular axes and coordinates of the plurality of terminals of one of the four isometric parts, the coordinates of the plurality of terminals defining positions of the one of the four isometric parts relative to the center point; and a calculating unit for receiving the lengths of the two perpendicular axes, and calculating the coordinates of the plurality of terminals of the one of the four isometric parts based on the formulae stored in the memory unit, and calculating coordinates of a plurality of terminals of the other three isometric parts according to symmetrical rules; wherein the depicting unit depicts the four isometric parts of the elongated oval pattern based on the coordinates of the plurality of terminals of each isometric part.