ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,011, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hitachi Astemo Ltd. (Hitachinaka, Japan).
"Electronic control device" was invented by Takeshi Igarashi (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Katsuya Oyama (Hitachinaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic control device capable of improving the connection life and reliability of solder connecting a printed circuit board and a QFN type semiconductor package. For this purpose, a printed circuit board 106 includes a first land 109 connected to a first metal terminal 104 via a solder 107, a second land 110 connected to a second metal terminal 105 v...