Patent ID: 7432213

Claim:
A method for improving electrical connection layout efficiency in an electronic panel having a first electronic device and a second electronic device, wherein the first device comprises a plurality of first electrically conductive strip segments and a plurality of first electrically conductive pads, and the second device having a plurality of second electrically conductive strip segments complementary to the first electrically conductive strip segments and a plurality of second electrically conductive pads complementary to the first electrically conductive pads, such that when the first pads are superimposed on corresponding second pads to form a plurality of pad stacks, the pad stacks together with the first strip segments and the second strip segments form a connection pattern between the first device and the second device, and wherein each pad stack has an area bound by a first pad side and a second pad side in a first direction, and by a first pad edge and a second pad edge in a second direction, and each of the first and second strip segments has a first strip edge and an opposing second strip edge, each pad stack electrically connected to one first strip segment on the first pad side and to one second strip segment on the second pad side, said method comprising the steps of: arranging the pad stacks in the connection pattern into a plurality of stack groups, at least some of the stack groups having at least three pad stacks; and on each pad stack in said at least some of the stack groups, arranging the first and second strip segments relative to the pad stack so that the first strip segment, the pad stack and the second strip segment form a connector pattern, such that the first strip edge of the second strip segment is substantially aligned with the first pad edge, and the second strip edge of the first strip segment is aligned with the second pad edge; and displacing said at least three pad stacks from each other both in the first direction and in the second direction such that a gap is formed in the first direction between the second pad side of one pad stack and the first pad side of an adjacent pad stack, and a further gap is formed in the second direction between the second pad edge of said pad stack and the first strip edge of the first strip segment connected to said adjacent pad stack.