Trace carrier

• US 8,044,303 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2008
• Issued: 10/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Qiu, Yu-Huan, Fan, Wen-Kang
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen; Xiaoliang
• Application Number:
  US12/098,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20090223702A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,296 Days
• Field of Search: 174/255, 174/15.5, 174/17.R, 174/34, 174/63, 174/113.R, 174/128.1, 174/36, 361/600, 361/679, 439/483
• US Class Current: 174/255
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/0237 High frequency adaptations H05K1/0216 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09236 Parallel layout
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/10265 Metallic coils or springs, e.g. as part of a connection element
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/0005 for designing circuits by computer
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/222 Completing of printed circuits by adding non-printed jumper connections printed jumper connections H05K3/4685

Abstract

A trace carrier is provided. The trace carrier includes a first insulating tube, a second insulating tube, a trace pair, and a sealed hollow insulating cylinder. The trace pair is passing through the first insulating tube and the second insulating tube, and is coiled up in an inner space of the first insulating tube and the second insulating tube. The sealed hollow insulating cylinder encapsulates the first insulating tube, the second insulating tube, and the trace pair, but the four terminals of the trace pair are exposed to the outside of the sealed hollow insulating cylinder.

Claims

1. A trace carrier, comprising:

a first insulating tube;

a second insulating tube;

a trace pair, passing through the first insulating tube and the second insulating tube, and being coiled up in an inner space of the first insulating tube and the second insulating tube; and

a sealed hollow insulating cylinder, encapsulating the first insulating tube, the second insulating tube, and the trace pair, but exposing four terminals of the trace pair to the outside of the sealed hollow insulating cylinder, wherein the outer surface of the sealed hollow insulating cylinder is further encapsulated with a metal reference layer, and the metal reference layer is not electrically connected to the four terminals of the trace pair exposed to the outside of the sealed hollow insulating cylinder.

2. The trace carrier according to claim 1, wherein major axes of the first insulating tube, the second insulating tube, and the sealed hollow insulating cylinder extend in a same direction, the first insulating tube and the second insulating tube are of a same size, a radius of the sealed hollow insulating cylinder is twice that of the first insulating tube, and the trace pair is coiled up against inner walls of the first insulating tube and the second insulating tube.

3. The trace carrier according to claim 2, wherein an outer surface of the sealed hollow insulating cylinder is further provided with four bonding pads, and each terminal of the trace pair is further exposed to the outside of the sealed hollow insulating cylinder via one of the four bonding pads.

4. The trace carrier according to claim 3, wherein the four bonding pads are all copper foils.

5. The trace carrier according to claim 3, wherein the first insulating tube is designed in a manner expressed by the following equation:

A=B+C+(½

)S,

where A denotes the radius of the first insulating tube, B denotes a thickness of the bonding pads, C denotes a wall thickness of the first insulating tube, and S denotes a required smallest spacing between the trace pair and other traces.

6. The trace carrier according to claim 5, wherein a pitch of coils formed by the trace pair is S.

7. The trace carrier according to claim 1, wherein insulating materials of the first insulating tube, the second insulating tube, and the sealed hollow insulating cylinder are all resins.

8. The trace carrier according to claim 1, wherein a material of the metal reference layer is an aluminum alloy.