Patent ID: 8304338

Claim:
A method of joining an electronic component, when bonding resin containing conductive particles is disposed between a substrate and the component, the bonding resin retained in a gap between first electrodes of the substrate and second electrodes of the component is heated and flows to cause the conductive particles melted between the first electrodes and the second electrodes to self-assemble, and then the substrate and the component are cooled to a temperature not higher than a solidification temperature of the conductive particles to mount the component on the substrate, the method comprising: arranging first dummy electrodes adjacent to the first electrodes and second dummy electrodes adjacent to the first dummy electrodes at shorter intervals than the first electrodes on the substrate, outside a junction region containing all of the first electrodes and the second electrodes and in the bonding resin, the first and second dummy electrodes being arranged as dummy electrodes not being involved in electrical connection between the substrate and the component; and causing the conductive particles melted between the first electrodes and the second electrodes and on the dummy electrodes to self-assemble by a flow of the heated bonding resin and solidify.