subject: The Complexity And Benefits Of Flex Circuits [print this page] Electronics industry has revolutionized over the years and due to the technological advancements and researches made flex circuits came into existence. These circuits allow electronic goods to become smaller and lighter so that they offer excellent working efficiency and strong heat resistance. These circuits form the core component of all electronics like cameras, computers, peripheral devices, and mobile phones, video and audio units, camcorders, printers, DVD, satellite equipment, military equipment and medical instruments. These circuits reduce the weight and space as well as meet the dynamic flexing requirements. Easy to install they eliminate the use of connectors and also reduce the assembly cost. These circuits can easily withstand the harshest of environments and are absolutely robust and durable. These components are monitored from the production stage to ensure accuracy and quality.
These products have excellent capabilities and are robust enough to withstand the flexing cycles while carrying signal and power without a break. These components save the maintenance costs and down time as well. The rigid-flex pcb reduces the impact upon itself and solders joints and provides ruggedness necessary for high reliability applications. This PCB is chosen based on several properties and factors which make them ideal for use in various industries. Physical properties like circuit size, layers, conductor width, outline dimensions and hole to border tolerance, cluster to cluster tolerance, bend radius, temperature and chemical resistance. Apart from these properties this component is also chosen based on the type of materials like cover, conductor, adhesive and stiffener. These printed circuit boards are used in radar systems, military radio, cardiac pacemakers, space shuttle engines, surgical tools, nerve stimulators, and several other equipments.
All the production processes of these boards are inspected and monitored for thermal cycling, humidity cleaning, elongation, tensile strength, resistance, ringer, inductance, insulation resistance, moisture resistance, solderability testing and several other parameters to ensure that they easily meet the set quality standards. These flexible circuits have high tolerance and are available in different types. Reliable they help in simplifying the designs without sacrificing the performance. All the circuits are carefully tested so that they can meet the demanding needs of medical, aerospace and defense applications. They also retain the precision density and repeatability of printed circuits.
