| US 7,511,966 B2 | ||
| Printed circuit board | ||
| Norikuni Noguchi, Kawaguchi (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 22, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/976,150. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-324803 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2008/0130255 A1, Jun. 05, 2008 | ||
| Int. Cl. H05K 7/10 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 361—771 [361/777] | 5 Claims |

| 1. A printed circuit board comprising:
a surface mounting area used to selectively mount thereon a first three-terminal regulator IC including an input terminal
pin, an output terminal pin and a ground terminal pin arranged in a certain pattern, and a second three-terminal regulator
IC including an input terminal pin, an output terminal pin and a ground terminal pin arranged in another pattern;
a pad device including first to fourth pads arranged on the surface mounting area along one side thereof, with a preset gap
defined between each pair of adjacent ones of the pads, the first to third pads forming a first land for mounting the first
three-terminal regulator IC, the second to fourth pads forming a second land for mounting the second three-terminal regulator
IC; and
a radiator-side pad device including a first radiator pad and a second radiator pad arranged on the surface mounting area
along another side thereof, with a preset gap defined therebetween, and a common radiator pad interposed between the first
and second radiator pads, the ground terminal pin being connected to the first radiator pad and the common radiator pad when
the first three-terminal regulator IC is mounted on the first land, the output terminal pin being connected to the second
radiator pad and the common radiator pad when the second three-terminal regulator IC is mounted on the first land.
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