Electronic package assembly
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsLawrence R. Cutting, Michael A. Gaynes, Eric A. Johnson, Cynthia S. Milkovich, Jeffrey S. Perkins, Mark V. Pierson, Steven E. Poetzinger, Jerzy Zalesinski
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Abstract
A screen printing fixture holds a flexible circuit board having components attached to one side, to allow screening a pattern of solder paste onto the second side for subsequent attachment of components to that side. In an electronic package assembly a flexible circuit board with components is wound about a heat spreader assembly having a cavity so that at least one component on the flexible circuit board is positioned within the cavity and in thermal connection to the heat spreader.
Claims4
An electronic package assembly, comprising:
- at least one heat spreader assembly including a first surface having a cavity therein and a second surface having a cavity therein, wherein said first and second surfaces of said heat spreader assembly are located on opposite sides of said heat spreader assembly;
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- a flexible circuit board including first and second thick portions and at least one thin flexible portion interconnecting said first and second thick portions, and including at least two electronic components thereon with at least one of said two electronic components and said second electronic component positioned on said first and second thick portions respectively, said flexible circuit board substantially wound about said at least one heat spreader assembly such that one component on said flexible circuit board is positioned within said cavity in said first surface of said heat spreader assembly in thermal connection to said heat spreader assembly and another component is positioned within said cavity in said second surface of said heat spreader assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.