IP Library Granted Patent US 10,806,024
Granted Patent B2
US 10,806,024 · App. 16/774,867 · Granted Oct 13, 2020

Method of utilizing serpentine regions

Inventors: Bhyrav Murthy Mutnury (Austin, TX); Chun-Lin Liao (Taipei, TW)
Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
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Patent No.
US 10,806,024
App. No.
16/774,867
Granted
Oct 13, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one or more embodiments, a circuit board may include a trace pair and a serpentine region of the trace pair, which may include: a first subregion in which the first trace includes a first portion that has a third width and a first length and in which the second trace includes a second portion, at least substantially parallel to the first portion, that has a fourth width, greater than the second width, and a second length; and a second subregion, adjacent to the first subregion, in which the first trace includes a third portion that has the third width and a third length and in which the second trace includes a third portion that has the fourth width and a third length, different from the second length.

Claims (15)

1. A method, comprising:

providing a circuit board that includes a first board structure member, a second board structure member, a third board structure member, and a fourth board structure member;

forming a trace pair, which includes:

forming a first trace of the trace pair that extends between the first board member structure and the third board member structure; and

forming a second trace of the trace pair that extends between the second board member structure and the fourth board member structure;

forming a serpentine region of the trace pair, which extends the second trace and which includes:

forming a first subregion in which the first trace includes a first portion that has a third width and a first length and in which the second trace includes a second portion, at least substantially parallel to the first portion, that has a fourth width, greater than the second width, and a second length; and

forming a second subregion, adjacent to the first subregion, in which the first trace includes a third portion that has the third width and a third length and in which the second trace includes a third portion that has the fourth width and a third length, different from the second length.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second width is the first width.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the fourth width is the third width.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the trace pair further includes another region, different from the serpentine region, wherein the first trace and the second trace are at least substantially parallel.

5. The method of claim 4 ,

wherein, in the other region, the first trace and the second trace are at a first distance; and

wherein, in the first subregion, the first portion and the second portion are at a second distance, greater than the first distance.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein an impedance of the first subregion is different from an impedance of the second subregion.

Assignments (9)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053311/0169) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 060438/0742 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (053546/0001) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL MARKETING L.P. (ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND AS SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.); DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; DELL MARKETING CORPORATION (SUCCESSOR-IN-INTEREST TO FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC. AND WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.); EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 071642/0001 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL/FRAME (052216/0758) Recorded Jun 23, 2022
From: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS NOTES COLLATERAL AGENT
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 060438/0680 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST AF REEL 052243 FRAME 0773 Recorded Nov 2, 2021
From: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 058001/0152 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 5, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 053311/0169 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 22, 2020
From: CREDANT TECHNOLOGIES INC.; DELL INTERNATIONAL L.L.C.; DELL MARKETING L.P.; DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; DELL USA L.P.; EMC CORPORATION; FORCE10 NETWORKS, INC.; WYSE TECHNOLOGY L.L.C.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
Reel/Frame 053546/0001 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 26, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: CREDIT SUISSE AG, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
Reel/Frame 052243/0773 →
PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT (NOTES) Recorded Mar 24, 2020
From: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.; EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC
To: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 052216/0758 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 28, 2020
From: MUTNURY, BHYRAV MURTHY; LIAO, CHUN-LIN
To: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Reel/Frame 051646/0265 →