Patent 7109590 was granted and assigned to Osram on September, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention relates to a semiconductor component comprising surface metallization and having at least one semiconductor body (3) and a package base body (2) on whose surface conductor path structures (7) are formed by means of surface metallization. A subregion of the conductor path structure (7) constitutes the solder connections of the semiconductor component. The solder connections (1) are combined to form rows, the individual rows of solder connections being arranged at a very small, predetermined spacing from one another.