Component carrier for arranging electrical components on a circuit board

A component carrier made of an electrically insulating material, the component carrier comprising a base region with one or more supporting surfaces for electrical and mechanical connection to a circuit board, and having at least one substantially flat connecting portion, which extends substantially at a right angle to the base region and possesses at least one planar lateral surface as an assembly surface, on which one or more electrical components can be assembled, and which furthermore possesses a top surface, which is arranged an at end of the connecting portion which is remote from the base region, which top surface is aligned parallel to the base region and serves as a suction surface for automated circuit board population as well as being usable as a further assembly surface for the assembly of one or more further electrical components,

• wherein the component carrier is provided with a plurality of traces, which, on the circuit board connection side, are guided along at least one of the supporting surfaces of the base region and end there in order to be soldered to the circuit board by their respective circuit board connection regions and, at their other end in each case, are guided to the respective assembly position of at least one of the electrical components and end in each case with their component connection regions in the vicinity of the electrical connections of the electrical component which is to be assembled there.