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Item No.: flex rigid 7854
Application:Electronic device, Oem electronic, Telecommunication
Supplier Type:Factory, Manufacturer, Oem/odm
Surface Treatment: ENIG
Description Flex Fab Steps
Description
Flexible PCB

Flexible PCB is also called flexible printed circuit boards or FPCB. Compared with ordinary hard resin circuit boards, the flexible circuit board has the advantages of high wiring density, lightweight, thin thickness, less wiring space limitation, and high flexibility.

It adapts to the needs of today's electronic products towards the direction of high density and high reliability, miniaturization and lightweight. Meanwhile, flex PCB also meets the strict economic requirements and the need for market and technology competition.

  • Advantages of soft and hard combination boards compared to general PCBs:

1. Lightweight

2. Thin interlayer

3. Short transmission path
4. Small conduction aperture
5. Low noise and high reliability

  • Advantages of soft and hard combination boards compared to hard boards:

1. Flexible and flexible, capable of three-dimensional wiring, changing shape            according to space limitations

2. High and low temperature resistance, flame resistance

3. Foldable without affecting signal transmission function

4. It can prevent static interference

5. Stable chemical changes, stability, and high reliability

6. It is beneficial for the design of related products, reducing assembly time and        errors, and improving the service life of related products

7. Reduce the volume of application products, significantly reduce weight,                  increase functionality, and reduce costs

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Application of Soft and Hard Combination Board
1. Industrial use - Industrial use includes soft and hard boards used in industrial, military, and medical applications. Most industrial components require characteristics such as precision, safety, and non vulnerability to damage. Therefore, the characteristics required for soft and hard boards are: high reliability, high precision, low impedance loss, complete signal transmission quality, and durability. But due to the high complexity of the manufacturing process, the output is small and the unit price is quite high.

2. The application of soft and hard boards in mobile phones commonly includes the Hinge, Camera Module, Keypad, and RF Module of foldable phones. The advantages of using soft and hard boards in mobile phones are the integration of components in the phone and the consideration of signal transmission capacity. At present, mobile phone products use soft and hard boards to replace the original combination of two connectors and a soft board. Its greatest significance in the product is to increase the durability and long-term reliability of mobile phone folding points. Therefore, soft and hard boards are highly valued due to their high product stability. On the other hand, due to the popularity of camera phones and the integration of multimedia and IT functions inside the phone, the internal signal transmission volume of the phone has increased, Modular requirements arise accordingly.

3. Consumer Electronics - In consumer products, DSC and DV are representative of the development of soft and hard boards, and can be discussed on two main axes: performance and structure. In terms of performance, soft and hard boards can connect different PCB hard boards and components in a three-dimensional manner. Therefore, under the same circuit density, the total usage area of the PCB can be increased, which can relatively increase its circuit carrying capacity and reduce the signal transmission limit and assembly error rate of the contacts. On the other hand, due to the lightweight and thin nature of soft and hard boards, they can bend wiring, which is essentially beneficial for reducing volume and weight.

4. Automobile - The use of soft and hard boards in automobiles, commonly including buttons for connecting the steering wheel to the motherboard, connection between the vehicle's video system screen and control panel, operation connection of audio or function keys on side doors, reverse radar imaging system, sensors (including air quality, temperature and humidity, special gas regulation, etc.), vehicle communication system, satellite navigation, rear seat control panel, and front-end controller connection board External detection system and other purposes.

  • Flexible circuits are also used extensively in other applications and industries :

Communications

Consumer Electronics

Automotive

Medical

Industrial

Aerospace

Military

Transportation



























Flex Fab Steps
Flex Fab Steps
Step 1:Apply ADhesive/Seed coat

Apply an epoxy or acrylic adhesive, or use sputtering to create a thin copper layer for plated bonds.  lamination of roll-annealed copper as an alternative.

Step 2: Add Copper Foil  

Add copper foil by laminating to an adhesive (the more mainstream method) or electroless plating onto a seed layer. New manufacturing processes from material suppliers allow the use of adhesive-free. 

Step 3: Drill holes

Holes for vias and pads are usually mechanically drilled. Multiple plated flexible substrates can be drilled simultaneously by combining them from multiple reels on a drum, drilling between work plates, and rolling out to separate reels on the other side of the drill. Precut flexible panels can be bonded and drilled between rigid blanks in the same way that rigid cores are drilled, but it requires more careful registration and alignment accuracy is reduced. For ultra-small holes, laser drilling can be used, but the cost increases significantly because each layer of film must be drilled individually. Excimer (UV) or YAG (IR) laser machines are used for higher precision (micropores), CO2 lasers are used for mesopores (4+ mils). Large holes and cuts require drilling, but this is a separate step. 

Step 4: Through Hole Plating

Once the holes are drilled, the copper is deposited and electrolessly plated in the same manner as the rigid PCB core (often called Cuposit). It is recommended that through-hole plating thickness in flex circuits be at least 1 mil to add mechanical support to the pad or via, while a typical low-cost rigid PCB may only have a ½ mil plating thickness.

Step 5: Resist Etch Print 

 A photoresist is applied to the surface of the film and using the desired mask pattern, the resist is exposed and formed prior to chemical etching of the copper. 

Step 6: Etch and Strip 

After etching the exposed copper, the etch resist is chemically stripped from the flex circuit. 

Step 7: Overlay 

The top and bottom areas of the flexible circuit are protected by a covering layer that is cut and shaped. There may be components that are actually mounted on the portion of the flex circuit, in which case the overlay also acts as a solder mask. The most common overlay material is an attached polyimide film with an adhesive, but adhesive-free processes are also available. In the adhesiveless process, a photo-imaged solder mask (the same used on the rigid circuit board portion) is used to essentially print the overlay onto the flexible circuit. For rougher, less expensive designs, screen printing is also an option, with the overcoat ultimately cured by UV exposure. Basically, the difference is that overlays are laminated films, whereas overlays apply a coating of material that then needs to be cured. 

Step 8: Cut off the flex board
The final step in creating a flex circuit is to cut it off. This is often called "blanking." The cost-effective method of blanking high volumes is via hydraulic punch and die sets, which involve considerable tooling costs. However, this method can punch out many flex circuits simultaneously. For prototypes and low-volume runs, use a blanking knife. A die cutter is simply a long blade that is bent into the shape of the flex circuit outline and fixed into a routing groove on the backing board (MDF, plywood, or a thick plastic like Teflon). The flexible loop is then pressed into a punch cutter and cut.
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