WO2000036559A1 - Chip card with soldered chip module and method of its manufacturing - Google Patents

Chip card with soldered chip module and method of its manufacturing Download PDF

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WO2000036559A1
WO2000036559A1 PCT/CZ1998/000053 CZ9800053W WO0036559A1 WO 2000036559 A1 WO2000036559 A1 WO 2000036559A1 CZ 9800053 W CZ9800053 W CZ 9800053W WO 0036559 A1 WO0036559 A1 WO 0036559A1
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Lubomír SLUNSKÝ
Judita SLUNSKÁ
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Slunska Judita
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Priority to AU14323/99A priority patent/AU1432399A/en
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
    • G06K19/07—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips
    • G06K19/077—Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
    • G06K19/07745—Mounting details of integrated circuit chips
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
    • H05K3/00—Apparatus or processes for manufacturing printed circuits
    • H05K3/30—Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor
    • H05K3/32—Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits
    • H05K3/34—Assembling printed circuits with electric components, e.g. with resistor electrically connecting electric components or wires to printed circuits by soldering
    • H05K3/341—Surface mounted components
    • H05K3/3421—Leaded components
    • H05K3/3426—Leaded components characterised by the leads
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L2224/00—Indexing scheme for arrangements for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies and methods related thereto as covered by H01L24/00
    • H01L2224/01—Means for bonding being attached to, or being formed on, the surface to be connected, e.g. chip-to-package, die-attach, "first-level" interconnects; Manufacturing methods related thereto
    • H01L2224/42—Wire connectors; Manufacturing methods related thereto
    • H01L2224/47—Structure, shape, material or disposition of the wire connectors after the connecting process
    • H01L2224/48—Structure, shape, material or disposition of the wire connectors after the connecting process of an individual wire connector
    • H01L2224/481—Disposition
    • H01L2224/48151—Connecting between a semiconductor or solid-state body and an item not being a semiconductor or solid-state body, e.g. chip-to-substrate, chip-to-passive
    • H01L2224/48221—Connecting between a semiconductor or solid-state body and an item not being a semiconductor or solid-state body, e.g. chip-to-substrate, chip-to-passive the body and the item being stacked
    • H01L2224/48225—Connecting between a semiconductor or solid-state body and an item not being a semiconductor or solid-state body, e.g. chip-to-substrate, chip-to-passive the body and the item being stacked the item being non-metallic, e.g. insulating substrate with or without metallisation
    • H01L2224/48227—Connecting between a semiconductor or solid-state body and an item not being a semiconductor or solid-state body, e.g. chip-to-substrate, chip-to-passive the body and the item being stacked the item being non-metallic, e.g. insulating substrate with or without metallisation connecting the wire to a bond pad of the item
    • H01L2224/48228—Connecting between a semiconductor or solid-state body and an item not being a semiconductor or solid-state body, e.g. chip-to-substrate, chip-to-passive the body and the item being stacked the item being non-metallic, e.g. insulating substrate with or without metallisation connecting the wire to a bond pad of the item the bond pad being disposed in a recess of the surface of the item
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L2224/00—Indexing scheme for arrangements for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies and methods related thereto as covered by H01L24/00
    • H01L2224/01—Means for bonding being attached to, or being formed on, the surface to be connected, e.g. chip-to-package, die-attach, "first-level" interconnects; Manufacturing methods related thereto
    • H01L2224/42—Wire connectors; Manufacturing methods related thereto
    • H01L2224/47—Structure, shape, material or disposition of the wire connectors after the connecting process
    • H01L2224/48—Structure, shape, material or disposition of the wire connectors after the connecting process of an individual wire connector
    • H01L2224/484—Connecting portions
    • H01L2224/4847—Connecting portions the connecting portion on the bonding area of the semiconductor or solid-state body being a wedge bond
    • H01L2224/48472—Connecting portions the connecting portion on the bonding area of the semiconductor or solid-state body being a wedge bond the other connecting portion not on the bonding area also being a wedge bond, i.e. wedge-to-wedge
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
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    • Y02P70/00—Climate change mitigation technologies in the production process for final industrial or consumer products
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  • Chip card with soldered chip module and method of its manufacturing.
  • the invention is related to contact or combined plastic chip card provided with one chip module, and method of manufacturing the same .
  • chip cards provided with one or two chip modules are commonly produced and used in a number of areas, for instance as credit cards, chip permanent tickets, company identification cards and passes etc. According to the electronic unit utilized in the card and the resulting functional capabilities, these are contact, contactless, and combined chip cards.
  • Chip cards comprise at least one plastic core provided, as the case may be, with surface foils on the surface, and a chip module.
  • Chip module consists of encapsulated chip, supporting substrate, electrically conductive surface foil creating contacting areas and of connecting contacts.
  • Substrate is in the form of flexible printed circuit board, it is embedded under electrically conductive surface foil and it is provided with connecting openings. Contacting areas on the electrically conducting surface foil are created with the help of connecting openings.
  • By means of connecting openings it is possible to interconnect contacting areas located on one side of substrate with the chip which is located on the other side of the substrate. Interconnection is realized by means of contacts generally designed in the shape of contacting wires.
  • Contactless chip cards contain additionally an antenna which is connected onto contacting areas and additional contacts distributed on the plastic core.
  • Antenna is usually in the shape of coil or printed circuit, when it is printed on the surface plane of the plastic core or etched into the surface conducting layer located on the plastic core plane or it is in the shape of at least one conductive string wound or otherwise adapted into the needed shape.
  • Base is usually created from synthetic core.
  • Existing combined chip cards contain identical elements as contactless cards and generally contain also 2nd chip module. Both chip modules are then independent, unable to communicate with each other. Method of manufacturing chip cards is different according to type of the card, it conforms particularly to the method of mounting of the chip module. Manufacturing methods are described by Christine Lesher (Advanced Smart Card Manufacturing Techniques and Methods, Conference Freedings - Card Tech ' 97, 1997, vol.1 , 139-148).
  • chip module In the case of contact chip card, chip module is embedded into pocket corresponding to its shape, created in the card beforehand in order to allow its deposition. This pocket is produced either by milling into laminated card or by injection moulding of hot plastic into appropriate mould of the card shape where pocket shape is delimited by the shape of mould. Chip module is than mounted into the card by gluing using liquid adhesive, mostly based on cyanoacrylate, or it is assembled by sticking under high temperature and pressure using adhesive foil. Adhesive foil in needed shape is inserted between bottom side of the chip module and adequate face of the pocket. Milling of pockets is relatively manipulation demanding, casting into moulds requires special manufacturing equipment and precisely shaped moulds, in the case of contactless chip cards, where antenna serves for information and energy transfer, this antenna is connected with the chip module at first.
  • Chip module specially adapted for this purpose is by its contacting areas interconnected with antenna either by soldering, generally on two contact places, or by gluing with conductive adhesive. Then, this assembly is seated on appropriate plastic core which is provided with seating opening for encapsulated chip of the chip module and together with the chip module, it is embedded and subsequently laminated in-between surface foils or, as the case may be, additional layers of plastic cores are also laminated simultaneously. Lamination is performed as already common operation of pressworking or moulding with the effect of pressure and heat. Finally the whole electronic part is embedded into the material of the card, it isn't visible at all, and it is accessible only by the way of electromagnetic field.
  • State-of-the-art combined chip cards are manufactured using one chip module for contact as well as contactless part of the card, and it is characteristic for them that the chip module has substrate made as double-sided printed circuit board with metalized-through openings. It means that the contacting areas are created on two layers of electrically conductive foil of the chip module, one from the side of the chip, the second one on opposed side of the substrate. According to majority of mentioned methods, it is necessary to produce plastic cards in a card by card process. That means, that manufacturing equipment executes given operation just on one, maximum two cards simultaneously. Accordingly, the manufacturing capacity is very low and it is possible to increase it only by parallel arrangement of key manufacturing units, ft is demanding economically, spatially as well as regarding manipulation.
  • This card as well as existing chip cards, consists of the chip module, upper and lower surface foils, at least one plastic core with necessary contacts and, as the case may be, antenna, where the plastic core is provided with seating opening for encapsulated chip, as well as at least one additional contact on the surface, and chip module contains substrate, fitted with connecting openings for bonding of contacting areas of this chip module with contacts of the chip, while connecting openings disembogue toward seating opening of the plastic core and are encapsulated together with the chip.
  • Essence of the invention consists in that the substrate of the chip module is provided with at least one auxiliary opening leading off the seating opening of the plastic core and encapsulation of the chip, namely on auxiliary contact suitably located on the plastic core, while this additional opening contains conducting solder-created connection between contacting area of the chip module and additional contact on the plastic core. All the contacting areas are hereat created by single layer of electrically conductive foil. Thereby, it is accomplished that the chip module is firmly fixed to the plastic core by joint created by solder, without necessity of application of adhesive or glue.
  • the proposed solution according to the invention ensures full functionality of the chip contact as well as combined card with one chip module, with only single layer of electrically conductive foil and allows significant simplification of the manufacturing process, which is subsequently exhibited by possibility of substantial enhancement of the manufacturing productivity.
  • Plastic contact or combined chip card with soldered chip module according to the invention is produced in a process, when, similarly as in the case of present process used for manufacturing of contactless chip cards, chip module is seated on a synthetic core so that the encapsulated chip will fit into seating opening, or, as the case may be, it is fitted with antenna, contingent additional plastic cores are enclosed, upper surface foil fitted, as the case may be, with opening for chip module, and lower surface foil, whereupon the said layers are laminated together and than the product is machined by common methods to its final shape.
  • the proposed card and the method of its manufacturing are suitable for exploitation in manufacturing of contact as well as combined plastic chip cards.
  • Method according to the invention allows significant increase of manufacturing productivity and economic effectiveness of manufacturing. Necessity of milling the pocket for seating of the chip module is eliminated. It is possible to produce as much as several tens of cards in the course of manufacture on one sheet simultaneously, where there is cardinal advantage that the operation of printing as well as mounting of cards can run on plates with several tens of cards at once.
  • the suggested method allows manufacturing of combined cards fitted with only one module, which is simultaneously used by contact as well as contactless subsystem of these cards.
  • Fig.1 illustrates the essence of the invention on detailed cross-section across exemplary plastic contact chip card, made by a process according to the invention.
  • Exemplary embodiment of the invention is in the plastic contact chip card, on which the essence of the invention is graphically demonstrated by means of detail, illustrated in cross-section on Fig.1.
  • This plastic card has chip module 1, seated on plastic core 2, which is on its upper side provided with upper surface foil 3 and on lower side it is provided with lower surface foil 4.
  • Upper surface foil 3 is printed on its surface and has access opening 5 cut out in the place for access to the chip module 1 .
  • Chip module 1 is mounted in the card so that its single electrically conductive foil creating contacting areas 6 is located at the top. Under the said foil, substrate 7 is located, fitted with not only connecting openings 8, but also with additional openings 9.
  • Additional opening 9 must be at least one, but in this particular case, the card has been favourably provided with several, namely six additional openings 9 (only one of them is illustrated on the picture, in detail).
  • Connecting openings 8 allow interconnection of the contacting area 6 and the chip 10, namely by means of contacts in the shape of contacting wire 11
  • Connecting openings 8 are together with the chip 10 encapsulated by plastic package.
  • This encapsulation 12 is created by synthetic filling-in paste.
  • Encapsulated chip 1_0 fits into seating opening 13 in the plastic core 2.
  • Each additional opening 9 is situated so, that it leads out off seating opening 13 and encapsulation 12 of the chip 10, namely on adequately located additional contact 14, which is for that purpose set on the surface of the plastic core 2.
  • Additional opening 9 is filled with solder, which creates joint 1_5 of the contacting area 6 of the chip module 1_ and corresponding additional contact 14.
  • All elements consist of materials common in the given field and are used for identical purpose.
  • plastic core 2 and surface foils 3,4 of the card are made from common plastic - PVC (polyvinylchloride), however, other materials, as ABS (polyacrylonitrilebutadienestyrene), PET (polyethylene), PC (polycarbonate) or PI (polyimide), etc. can be used as well.
  • Substrate 7 of the chip module 1 which is in the form of one-sided printed circuit board with shaped external contacts for outside contacting system (not illustrated on the figure, because it is not relevant to the essence of the solution), has been, already during its manufacture, provided with connecting openings 8, which are situated near the centre of the substrate 7, as well as other, additional openings 9, located near edge of the substrate 7.
  • Chip module 1 has been assembled and manufactured by common method on the substrate 7. Both openings 8 and 9 were manufactured so, that they lead in the completed chip module through substrate 7 to the electrically conductive foil, creating contacting areas 6.
  • plastic core 2 has been prepared simultaneously.
  • This card differs from previous one only so that it contains antenna on the plastic core surface, attached to additional contacts 14 of the plastic core 2 which are connected by soldered joint 9 with contacting areas 6 of the chip module 1.
  • the card fulfills all the functions of the combined plastic chip card, while it contains only one chip module 1 This card is the preferable embodiment of the invention.

Abstract

Plastic contact or combined chip card, which is provided with chip module (1), soldered to plastic core (2) through at least one additional opening (9), made in the substrate (7) of the chip module (1) and situated out of the chip encapsulation (10) and seating opening (12), utilizing at least one additional contact (14), adequately seated on plastic core (2). Plastic card is produced by laminating together, after the appropriately adapted substrate (7) has been mounted into the chip module (1), or, as the case may be, antenna is soldered on, chip module (1) and possibly antenna are seated and additional contacts (14) are soldered on.

Description

Chip card with soldered chip module and method of its manufacturing.
Field of the invention
The invention is related to contact or combined plastic chip card provided with one chip module, and method of manufacturing the same .
Present state of the art
At present, chip cards provided with one or two chip modules are commonly produced and used in a number of areas, for instance as credit cards, chip permanent tickets, company identification cards and passes etc. According to the electronic unit utilized in the card and the resulting functional capabilities, these are contact, contactless, and combined chip cards.
All chip cards comprise at least one plastic core provided, as the case may be, with surface foils on the surface, and a chip module. Chip module consists of encapsulated chip, supporting substrate, electrically conductive surface foil creating contacting areas and of connecting contacts. Substrate is in the form of flexible printed circuit board, it is embedded under electrically conductive surface foil and it is provided with connecting openings. Contacting areas on the electrically conducting surface foil are created with the help of connecting openings. By means of connecting openings, it is possible to interconnect contacting areas located on one side of substrate with the chip which is located on the other side of the substrate. Interconnection is realized by means of contacts generally designed in the shape of contacting wires. Contactless chip cards contain additionally an antenna which is connected onto contacting areas and additional contacts distributed on the plastic core. Antenna is usually in the shape of coil or printed circuit, when it is printed on the surface plane of the plastic core or etched into the surface conducting layer located on the plastic core plane or it is in the shape of at least one conductive string wound or otherwise adapted into the needed shape. Base is usually created from synthetic core. Existing combined chip cards contain identical elements as contactless cards and generally contain also 2nd chip module. Both chip modules are then independent, unable to communicate with each other. Method of manufacturing chip cards is different according to type of the card, it conforms particularly to the method of mounting of the chip module. Manufacturing methods are described by Christine Lesher (Advanced Smart Card Manufacturing Techniques and Methods, Conference Freedings - Card Tech '97, 1997, vol.1 , 139-148). In the case of contact chip card, chip module is embedded into pocket corresponding to its shape, created in the card beforehand in order to allow its deposition. This pocket is produced either by milling into laminated card or by injection moulding of hot plastic into appropriate mould of the card shape where pocket shape is delimited by the shape of mould. Chip module is than mounted into the card by gluing using liquid adhesive, mostly based on cyanoacrylate, or it is assembled by sticking under high temperature and pressure using adhesive foil. Adhesive foil in needed shape is inserted between bottom side of the chip module and adequate face of the pocket. Milling of pockets is relatively manipulation demanding, casting into moulds requires special manufacturing equipment and precisely shaped moulds, in the case of contactless chip cards, where antenna serves for information and energy transfer, this antenna is connected with the chip module at first. Chip module specially adapted for this purpose is by its contacting areas interconnected with antenna either by soldering, generally on two contact places, or by gluing with conductive adhesive. Then, this assembly is seated on appropriate plastic core which is provided with seating opening for encapsulated chip of the chip module and together with the chip module, it is embedded and subsequently laminated in-between surface foils or, as the case may be, additional layers of plastic cores are also laminated simultaneously. Lamination is performed as already common operation of pressworking or moulding with the effect of pressure and heat. Finally the whole electronic part is embedded into the material of the card, it isn't visible at all, and it is accessible only by the way of electromagnetic field.
In the case of combined chip cards, the above-mentioned process is used for the contactless part, and other independent chip module is glued for the contact part by one or another process already described .Resulting card contains two independent chip modules, incapable to communicate to each other without assistance of the outside electronic unit allowing simultaneous contact as well as contactless communication.
State-of-the-art combined chip cards are manufactured using one chip module for contact as well as contactless part of the card, and it is characteristic for them that the chip module has substrate made as double-sided printed circuit board with metalized-through openings. It means that the contacting areas are created on two layers of electrically conductive foil of the chip module, one from the side of the chip, the second one on opposed side of the substrate. According to majority of mentioned methods, it is necessary to produce plastic cards in a card by card process. That means, that manufacturing equipment executes given operation just on one, maximum two cards simultaneously. Accordingly, the manufacturing capacity is very low and it is possible to increase it only by parallel arrangement of key manufacturing units, ft is demanding economically, spatially as well as regarding manipulation.
Essence of the invention
Drawbacks mentioned above are eliminated by the solution according to the invention, in which contact or combined plastic chip card with soldered chip module is proposed. This card, as well as existing chip cards, consists of the chip module, upper and lower surface foils, at least one plastic core with necessary contacts and, as the case may be, antenna, where the plastic core is provided with seating opening for encapsulated chip, as well as at least one additional contact on the surface, and chip module contains substrate, fitted with connecting openings for bonding of contacting areas of this chip module with contacts of the chip, while connecting openings disembogue toward seating opening of the plastic core and are encapsulated together with the chip. Essence of the invention consists in that the substrate of the chip module is provided with at least one auxiliary opening leading off the seating opening of the plastic core and encapsulation of the chip, namely on auxiliary contact suitably located on the plastic core, while this additional opening contains conducting solder-created connection between contacting area of the chip module and additional contact on the plastic core. All the contacting areas are hereat created by single layer of electrically conductive foil. Thereby, it is accomplished that the chip module is firmly fixed to the plastic core by joint created by solder, without necessity of application of adhesive or glue. The proposed solution according to the invention ensures full functionality of the chip contact as well as combined card with one chip module, with only single layer of electrically conductive foil and allows significant simplification of the manufacturing process, which is subsequently exhibited by possibility of substantial enhancement of the manufacturing productivity.
Plastic contact or combined chip card with soldered chip module according to the invention is produced in a process, when, similarly as in the case of present process used for manufacturing of contactless chip cards, chip module is seated on a synthetic core so that the encapsulated chip will fit into seating opening, or, as the case may be, it is fitted with antenna, contingent additional plastic cores are enclosed, upper surface foil fitted, as the case may be, with opening for chip module, and lower surface foil, whereupon the said layers are laminated together and than the product is machined by common methods to its final shape. Completely newly the following is inserted into the process, that before mounting of the chip module, preferably as early as during its manufacture, its substrate is provided with at least one additional opening, located in such way that after seating of the chip module, this additional opening should lead out off encapsulation of the chip, whereas plastic core is provided with at least one adequately embedded additional contact and after placing the chip module onto plastic core, adequately placed additional contact is soldered to the contacting area of the chip module so, that the joint of additional contact and contacting area is mounted in the additional opening.
The proposed card and the method of its manufacturing are suitable for exploitation in manufacturing of contact as well as combined plastic chip cards. Method according to the invention allows significant increase of manufacturing productivity and economic effectiveness of manufacturing. Necessity of milling the pocket for seating of the chip module is eliminated. It is possible to produce as much as several tens of cards in the course of manufacture on one sheet simultaneously, where there is cardinal advantage that the operation of printing as well as mounting of cards can run on plates with several tens of cards at once. At the same time, the suggested method allows manufacturing of combined cards fitted with only one module, which is simultaneously used by contact as well as contactless subsystem of these cards.
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Invention is explained in details with the help of drawing, where Fig.1 illustrates the essence of the invention on detailed cross-section across exemplary plastic contact chip card, made by a process according to the invention.
Examples of embodiment of the invention Example 1
Exemplary embodiment of the invention is in the plastic contact chip card, on which the essence of the invention is graphically demonstrated by means of detail, illustrated in cross-section on Fig.1. This plastic card has chip module 1, seated on plastic core 2, which is on its upper side provided with upper surface foil 3 and on lower side it is provided with lower surface foil 4. Upper surface foil 3 is printed on its surface and has access opening 5 cut out in the place for access to the chip module 1 .Chip module 1 is mounted in the card so that its single electrically conductive foil creating contacting areas 6 is located at the top. Under the said foil, substrate 7 is located, fitted with not only connecting openings 8, but also with additional openings 9. Additional opening 9 must be at least one, but in this particular case, the card has been favourably provided with several, namely six additional openings 9 (only one of them is illustrated on the picture, in detail). Connecting openings 8 allow interconnection of the contacting area 6 and the chip 10, namely by means of contacts in the shape of contacting wire 11 Connecting openings 8 are together with the chip 10 encapsulated by plastic package. This encapsulation 12 is created by synthetic filling-in paste. Encapsulated chip 1_0 fits into seating opening 13 in the plastic core 2. Each additional opening 9 is situated so, that it leads out off seating opening 13 and encapsulation 12 of the chip 10, namely on adequately located additional contact 14, which is for that purpose set on the surface of the plastic core 2. Additional opening 9 is filled with solder, which creates joint 1_5 of the contacting area 6 of the chip module 1_ and corresponding additional contact 14. All elements consist of materials common in the given field and are used for identical purpose. For example plastic core 2 and surface foils 3,4 of the card are made from common plastic - PVC (polyvinylchloride), however, other materials, as ABS (polyacrylonitrilebutadienestyrene), PET (polyethylene), PC (polycarbonate) or PI (polyimide), etc. can be used as well.
Card has been manufactured in a process according to the invention. Substrate 7 of the chip module 1, which is in the form of one-sided printed circuit board with shaped external contacts for outside contacting system (not illustrated on the figure, because it is not relevant to the essence of the solution), has been, already during its manufacture, provided with connecting openings 8, which are situated near the centre of the substrate 7, as well as other, additional openings 9, located near edge of the substrate 7. Chip module 1 has been assembled and manufactured by common method on the substrate 7. Both openings 8 and 9 were manufactured so, that they lead in the completed chip module through substrate 7 to the electrically conductive foil, creating contacting areas 6. For mounting of the chip module 1 into the plastic card, plastic core 2 has been prepared simultaneously. As a plastic core, elastic printed joint has been used, fitted with seating opening 3, dimensionally congruent with the future plastic card. Preparation consisted in fitting the surface of this plastic core 2 with additional contacts 14 with surface finishing suitably for soldering. These additional contacts 14 were manufactured in a process common for working of printed circuits and they were situated so, that after matching together, they correspond to positions of additional openings 9, prepared in the substrate 7. Than, chip module 1 has been mounted onto plastic core 2 and soldered to it by means of solder and additional openings 9. After it, upper and lower surface foils 3,4 were set and the card has been laminated together. Contacting area 6 of the chip module 1 has been electrically accessible for outer contacting system and approximately flushed with the card surface plane. Finally card has been finished by common method, which means in this particular case, that it has been cut off from mother plate containing other cards made simultaneously and located in the lines.
Example 2
Other exemplary embodiment of the invention is combined plastic chip card with soldered chip module, and made in a process according to the invention.
This card differs from previous one only so that it contains antenna on the plastic core surface, attached to additional contacts 14 of the plastic core 2 which are connected by soldered joint 9 with contacting areas 6 of the chip module 1.
Then, this whole unit has been mounted into the card by the same method as said above. The card fulfills all the functions of the combined plastic chip card, while it contains only one chip module 1 This card is the preferable embodiment of the invention.

Claims

C L A I M S
1. Chip card with soldered chip module in, which is plastic contact or combined chip card and consists of chip module, upper and lower plastic surface foils, at least one plastic core, necessary contacts and , as the case may be, antenna, where plastic core is provided with seating opening for encapsulated chip as well as at least one additional contact on the surface, and the said chip module comprise substrate fitted with connecting openings for bonding contacting areas of this chip module with contacts of the chip, while connecting openings lead out toward seating opening of the plastic core and they are encapsulated together with the chip, distinguished by that the substrate 111 of the chip module IM is provided with at least one additional opening /9/, leading at one side to contacting area 161 of single layer of electrically conductive foil of said chip module from the side of the chip /10/ and at the second side off the seating opening /13/ of the plastic core 121 and encapsulation /12/ of the chip /10/, namely onto additional contact /14/, created and adequately seated on a plastic core 121, while additional opening 19/ contains solder joint /15/ of contacting area /6/ of the chip module /1/ with additional contact /14/.
2. Method of manufacturing chip card with soldered chip module as claimed in claim 1 , when chip module is seated on plastic core so that the encapsulated chip fits into seating opening, and is provided, as the case may be, with antenna, possible additional plastic cores, upper surface foil fitted with opening for chip module and lower surface foil are set, whereupon the said layers are laminated together and than the product is finished by common method into its final shape, distinguished by that before mounting of the chip module hi, its substrate 111 is provided with at least one additional opening 191, situated so that, after seating the chip module IM, it should lead into this additional opening 191 outside the encapsulation /12/ of the chip /10/, while plastic core 121 is provided with at least one adequately located additional contact /14/ and after seating of the chip module IM onto plastic core 121, it is soldered on adequately seated additional contact /14/ near contacting area /6/ of the chip module IM through the additional opening 191.
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