Method of manufacturing an identification card and an identification manufactured, for example, by this method

• US 4,483,067 A
• Filed: 09/10/1982
• Issued: 11/20/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Parmentier, Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Goldberg, Howard N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Arbes, Carl J.
• Application Number:
  US06/416,791
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 29/825, 29/827, 29/830, 29/832, 29/836, 29/841, 29/840, 29/588, 361/386, 174/52 PE, 235/492
• US Class Current: 29/840
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07745 Mounting details of integrated circuit chips
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/05599 Material
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/32057 in side view
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/32225 the item being non-metallic, e.g. insulating substrate with or without metallisation
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/45099 Material
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48091 Arched
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48227 connecting the wire to a bond pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/48465 the other connecting portion not on the bonding area being a wedge bond, i.e. ball-to-wedge, regular stitch
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/73265 Layer and wire connectors
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/83385 Shape, e.g. interlocking features
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/13 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/4828 Conductive organic material or pastes, e.g. conductive adhesives, inks
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/5384 Conductive vias through the substrate with or without pins, e.g. buried coaxial conductors H01L23/5383, H01L23/5385 take precedence; pins attached to insulating substrates H01L23/49811
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/32 of an individual layer connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/48 of an individual wire connector
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00012 Relevant to the scope of the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00014 the subject-matter covered by the group, the symbol of which is combined with the symbol of this group, being disclosed without further technical details
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01078 Platinum [Pt]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/14 Integrated circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/15151 : the die mounting substrate comprising an aperture, e.g. for underfilling, outgassing, window type wire connections
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/15153 : the die mounting substrate comprising a recess for hosting the device
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/15165 : Monolayer substrate
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/181 : Encapsulation
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/182 : associated with components mounted in the printed circuit board, e.g. insert mounted components [IMC]
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/184 : Components including terminals inserted in holes through the printed circuit board and connected to printed contacts on the walls of the holes or at the edges thereof or protruding over or into the holes
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/0094 : Filling or covering plated through-holes or blind plated vias, e.g. for masking or for mechanical reinforcement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 283/904 : Credit card
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49144 : by metal fusion

Abstract

An identification card with an integrated semiconductor circuit (13) which is mounted on a secondary carrier (11) and which is electrically connected to conductor patterns (3, 5) on both sides of the secondary carrier (11). The secondary carrier (11) is mounted in a primary carrier (29) together with the integrated semiconductor circuit (13). The secondary carrier (11) comprises a plated-through hole (7) which is partly removed in order to form a recess (15) in the secondary carrier (11) in which the semiconductor circuit (13) is accommodated. The semiconductor circuit (13) is electrically connected, by means of connection wires (23, 25), to a conductor pattern (3) on the secondary carrier (11) and, also using an electrically conductive glue (21) and the metal hole plating (18) of the remainder (17) of the plate-through hole (7), to the other conductor pattern (5) on the secondary carrier (11).

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing an identification card in which an integrated semiconductor circuit is brought into electrical contact on both sides with conductor patterns on at least one side of a secondary carrier which is subsequently mounted, together with the integrated circuit, in a primary carrier, the integrated circuit being enclosed by a quantity of electrically insulating material which fills a recess in one of said carriers, comprising the steps of:

providing the secondary carrier (11) which comprises a conductor pattern (3,

     5) on both sides with at least one plated-through hole (7);

providing a recess (15) subsequently at the area of said hole (7) in the secondary carrier (11);

said recess (15) opening into the part (17) of the plated-through hole (7) which remains after the formation of the recess (15);

arranging the integrated circuit (13) subsequently in the recess (15) and connecting it on one side, by means of an electrically conductive bonding medium (21) and the metal hole plating (18), to the conductor pattern (5) on one side of the secondary carrier (11), and connecting its other sidesubsequently to the conductor pattern (3) on the other side of the secondary carrier (11).