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US 7,022,547 B2Granted
Card manufacturing technique and resulting card
AssigneeSanDisk Corporation
InventorRobert F. Wallace
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Abstract
A card manufacturing technique and the resulting card are provided. The card has a ground and/or power layer extending to the edges of a circuit board for electrostatic discharge protection but also has gaps at the edge of the ground and/or power layer to avoid short circuiting with conductive segments of another layer deformed when the card is trimmed during manufacture.
Claims5
A method of making a multi-layer circuit board:
- forming a first conductive layer having conductive segments positioned along at least one edge of the circuit board;
- forming an insulative layer below the first conductive layer
- forming a second conductive layer below the first conductive layer and the insulative layer, said second conductive layer having gaps positioned along the at least one edge of the circuit board, at least one of said gaps larger than said conductive segments and aligned with said conductive segments;
- trimming the circuit board and the conductive segments such that any deformation of the segments extends into the gaps and does not make contact with the second conductive layer.
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A method of making a memory storage device comprising a circuit board, a cover, and a junction between an edge of the circuit board and the cover comprising:
- forming a first metallic layer comprising a first area, a bus, and a plurality of segments connecting the first area to the bus at the edge of the circuit board, the first area positioned within the circuit board, the bus positioned without the circuit board;
- forming an insulating layer below the first area of the first metallic layer;
- forming a second metallic layer below the insulating layer and separated from the first metallic layer by the insulating layer, the second metallic layer extending to the edge of the circuit board and having a plurality of gaps at the edge of the circuit board positioned below the plurality of segments;
- shearing the plurality of segments at the edge of the circuit board and removing the bus such that any deformation of the segments falls within the gaps of the second metallic layer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.