Panel assembly structure capable of connecting wiring line with electrode at fine pitch

• US 5,668,700 A
• Filed: 07/24/1995
• Issued: 09/16/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tagusa, Yasunobu, Nakabu, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vigushin, John B.
• Application Number:
  US08/505,844
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 361/760, 361/767, 361/769, 361/771, 361/777, 361/779, 174/259, 439/66, 439/67, 439/91, 349/149, 349/150, 349/152
• US Class Current: 361/779
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13452 Conductors connecting driver circuitry and terminals of panels
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/5387 Flexible insulating substrates H01L23/5388 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/50 Tape automated bonding [TAB] connectors, i.e. film carriers; Manufacturing methods related thereto thin flexible metallic tape with or without a film carrier H01L23/49572, flexible insulating substrates H01L23/4985, H01L23/5387
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/79 Apparatus for Tape Automated Bonding [TAB]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/86 using tape automated bonding [TAB]
• 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 2924/01004 Beryllium [Be]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01005 Boron [B]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01006 Carbon [C]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01013 Aluminum [Al]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01023 Vanadium [V]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01029 Copper [Cu]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01033 Arsenic [As]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01042 Molybdenum [Mo]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01049 Indium [In]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01057 Lanthanum [La]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01073 Tantalum [Ta]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01079 Gold [Au]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/01082 Lead [Pb]
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/014 Solder alloys
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/04953 : TaN
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/12042 : LASER
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/14 : Integrated circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/351 : Thermal stress
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/14 : Structural association of two or more printed circuits providing electric connection to or between printed circuits H05K1/11, H01R12/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/361 : Assembling flexible printed circuits with other printed circuits

Abstract

There is provided a highly reliable panel assembly structure capable of performing fine-pitch high-density assembling at a high yield and a low cost. A flexible wiring board has a film-like substrate with flexibility, and an IC chip is mounted in an area. In the area is provided a through hole that has plane dimensions smaller than plane dimensions of the chip and penetrates the substrate. Portions that belong respectively to an output side wiring line and an input side wiring line provided on a substrate surface and are connected respectively to an output side electrode and an input side electrode of the chip via second connection materials and are supported by the substrate surface. An output terminal of the flexible wiring board is connected to an electrode terminal formed at a peripheral portion of a panel via a first connection material, while an input terminal of the flexible wiring board is connected to an electrode terminal of a circuit board via a third connection material.

Claims

1. A panel assembly structure including:

a flexible wiring board provided with a film-like substrate having a flexibility;

an integrated circuit chip mounted in a specified area on a surface of the substrate, said integrated circuit chip having an output side electrode and an input side electrode connected respectively with an output side wiring line and an input side wiring line provided on the surface of the substrate each via a second connection material;

a panel of which a peripheral portion has an electrode terminal, said electrode terminal being connected with an output terminal comprised of a part of the output side wiring line of the flexible wiring board via a first connection material; and

a wiring board which has an electrode terminal for supplying a signal to the integrated circuit chip, said electrode terminal being connected with an input terminal comprised of a part of the input side wiring line of the flexible wiring board via a third connection material, wherein

an area which belongs to the surface of the substrate of the flexible wiring board and in which the integrated circuit chip is mounted is provided with a through hole which penetrates the substrate and has plane dimensions smaller than plane dimensions of the integrated circuit chip, and

portions which belong respectively to the output side wiring line and the input side wiring line and are connected respectively with the output side electrode and the input side electrode of the integrated circuit chip are supported by the surface of the substrate around the through hole.

2. A panel assembly structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the second connection material is solder.

3. A panel assembly structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the second connection material is an anisotropic conductive film.

4. A panel assembly structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the first, second and third connection materials are provided by a connection material of an identical sort.

5. A panel assembly structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the first, second and third connection materials are provided integratedly.

6. A panel assembly structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein

at least one of the area in which the integrated circuit chip is mounted and the area in which the output terminal is formed, said areas belonging to the substrate of the flexible wiring board, has a thickness smaller than a thickness of the other area of the substrate of the flexible wiring board.

7. A panel assembly structure as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the panel and the wiring board are formed integratedly.