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Lead frame having integral terminal tabs

  • US 4,158,745 A
  • Filed: 10/27/1977
  • Issued: 06/19/1979
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1977
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A continuous strip of stamped and formed lead frames, each lead frame of said strip being intended to receive, and establish electrical connections to, a chip having oppositely directed faces and having two contact areas on one of said faces and having one contact area on the other face, said strip comprising:

  • a continuous carrier strip means, said lead frames being integral with said carrier strip means at spaced-apart intervals,each of said lead frames having a chip receiving zone which is spaced from said carrier strip means, each of said lead frames comprising first, second, and third arms, said arms being integral with said carrier strip means,each of said arms having an integral terminal portion, each of said terminal portions being generally rectangular and comprising a plurality of thicknesses of sheet metal and being dimensioned to be mated with a complementary terminal device, said terminal portions radiating from said chip receiving zone of each lead frame,said second arm of each lead frame having integral chip supporting surface portions in said chip receiving zone, said first and third arms having contact members which extend at least partially across said chip supporting surface portions, said contact members of said first and third arms having contact tip portions for establishing electrical contact with said two contact areas on said one face of a chip whereby,upon placement of a chip on said chip supporting surface of one of said lead frames with said other face of said chip against said chip supporting surface and with said contact members extending across said one face of said chip, said chip supporting surface will be in electrical contact with said one contact area on said other face of said chip, and said contact tip portions of said contact members will be in electrical contact with said two contact areas on said one face of said chip, and upon severing said one lead frame from said strip and bending said terminal portions away from the plane of said strip in a common direction, said terminal portions will surround said chip receiving zone and external conductors can be connected to said chip by mating terminals in said external conductors with said terminal portions of said arms.

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