Electrical component package

Claim 1

A packaged electrical component comprising: a leadless carrier body of passive dielectric material, said body comprising a stacked plurality of laminations defining a base layer, a contact layer and a top layer, said layers lying in respective axially-spaced planes, the base layer having a central area on which the electrical component is mounted, the contact layer having deposited thereon a pattern of outwardly extending, discrete conductive paths extending continuously and in the same plane from adjacent said central area to a peripheral point outside of said top layer, conductor means connected between the component and at least some of the conductive paths, and a socket of dielectric material operatively receiving the carrier body in supported relation therewith, said socket having an interior volume receiving the carrier substantially totally therewithin, the socket including discrete, metallic electrical connectors having first terminal ends within said interior volume and arranged in a pattern corresponding at least in part to the pattern of conductive paths on said carrier body, said carrier being disposed in the interior volume of the socket establishing electrical contact between the conductive paths of said carrier and the connectors of said socket, the connectors having second terminal ends extending externally frOm the socket for external connection thereof.