Use for "ceramic dual flatpack"?

Greetings dwellers of SED: I was recently going through a datasheet and came across an oddity of a package. It's called a "ceramic dual flatpack" (page 11:

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It does not appear to be surface mountable, as the leads would have to be bent down to touch the PCB. It is not through hole mountable, as the leads go straight out.

Can anybody tell me what this package type is used for?

Thanks,

-Michael

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Michael
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This is a military-grade package going back to the 60s. You used a special die in a press to form the leads and then you weld, yes, weld, the leads to the PCB. Early digital computers in missiles were built out packages like these.

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The last one has a link to a fascinating powerpoint presentation.

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Wirewrap?

Martin

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Martin Griffith

When I used these packages back around 1990 we used our own special die to shorten and form the leads for surface mounting, then just soldered the package to our PCB as if it was a regular surface mount package. It worked fine.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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bill.sloman

Yeah, I guess I should have said you *may* weld them if your application needs it. Apparently missiles needed it, or maybe soldering wasn't judged reliable enough at the time. It's a pretty serious heavy-duty package at any rate.

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No.

Cheers! Rich

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Rich Grise

Michael snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

Presuming that you are talking about the "W" package, that is the old standard "flat-pack" without preformed leads. It is intended for surface mount after lead forming. It is an out of date package style dating back to the early 1970's or so.

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JosephKK

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