Electronic package and accessory component assembly

Abstract

Common printed circuit board area usage is provided for electronic packages and accessory components by the provision of an assembly including a receptacle stacking a package and accessory component and having electrical contact elements with fixed portions selectively connected to component contacts and other portions for engaging package contacts. In a preferred embodiment, the assembly includes one or more dual-in-line packages (DIP) and the accessory component is a capacitive decoupling assembly.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. An electronic assembly comprising: an electronic package having electrical contacts;   accessory component means for said package having electrical contacts for connection with said package contacts, said component means including a substrate and a component supported by said substrate, said substrate defining said component means contacts;   receptacle means having an upstanding housing defining a top opening removably receiving said package, a bottom opening removably receiving said component .[.means.]. and a channel extending between such top and bottom openings providing for residence of said package and said component .[.means.]. in vertically spaced relation in said receptacle means, said substrate being juxtaposed with a housing surface adjacent said bottom opening;   a plurality of contact elements having first portions fixedly supported in said housing, said first portions extending through said bottom opening and exteriorly thereof for engagement externally of said assembly and second portions vertically spaced from said first portions and electrically engaging said package contacts;   said substrate further including ear portions extending horizontally outwardly thereof, said contact element first portions including horizontally extending lands adjacent said housing surface, said substrate ear portions and said lands being electrically connected adjacent said housing surface.   
     
     
       2. The assembly claimed in claim 1 wherein said substrate includes electrically conductive strips constituting said component means contacts and connected to said component. 
     
     
       3. The assembly claimed in claim 1 wherein said contact elements further include stem portions extending downwardly of said lands for electrical connection of said package and said component means to a printed circuit board. 
     
     
       4. The assembly claimed in claim 1 wherein said component means is a capacitive decoupling means. 
     
     
       5. The assembly claimed in claim 4 wherein said capacitive decoupling means includes at least one capacitor having a body and terminals disposed in said housing in vertically spaced relation to said electronic package. 
     
     
       6. The assembly claimed in claim 5 wherein said capacitive decoupling means further includes said substrate bearing electrically conductive strips connected separately to said capacitor terminals and constituting said component means contacts. 
     
     
       7. The assembly as claimed in claim 4 wherein said capacitive coupling means includes plural capacitors, each for providing capacitive decoupling for an individual one of plural supply voltages required by said package. .Iadd. 
     
     
       8.  In an electrical assembly of the type including an electrical package having a row of contacts, accessory component means in electrical interconnection with said package contacts, comprising: a substrate of insulative material, a plurality of spaced conductive strips on said substrate and an electrical component supported by said substrate and electrically connected to selected conductive strips; and   plural ear portions, each including a portion of one of said selected conductive strips, projecting outwardly from one side edge of said substrate at spaced locations and defining therebetween an open region within which reside contacts of said package that are not connected to said component means, said ear portions being electrically connected to selected contacts in said row that are not adjacent to each other. .Iaddend. .Iadd.9. The invention claimed in claim 8 wherein said substrate includes spaced portions projecting outwardly from said one side edge thereof, each corresponding in location with and supporting a respective portion of said selected conductive strips. .Iaddend. .Iadd.10. The invention claimed in claim 8 further including plural ear portions projecting outwardly from another side edge of said substrate opposite said one side edge, said further plural ear portions each including a portion of others of said plurality of conductive strips on said substrate, said further ear portions being electrically connected to other selected contacts of said package that extend in another row spaced from and parallel to said row of contacts..Iaddend.