Flex and Rigid-Flex Circuits

Product Details

(Click to enlarge image) Flex and rigid-flex circuits have found wide use in electronics packaging.

Some of the benefits of this form of packaging are:
- High Reliability
- Repeatable installations
- Harsh environments
- High Vibration
- Conductor patterns maintain uniform electrical characteristics. Can predict and control noise, crosstalk and impedance
- Reduce assembly cost
- Replacement for a circuit board and wires
- Reduce weight and space
- Dynamic flexing

Some of the possible uses of flex are:
- Substitute flex for bulky wire harnesses
- Replace hardboard / connector / cable assemblies with rigid flex or flex with stiffeners
- Flexible shields or ground planes to reduce noise. Design conductor patterns to block specific types of electrical interference
- Enhance high-speed signal integrity with matched-impedance flex circuits
- Miniature jumpers on circuit boards
- Bend flex to fit where the smallest hardboards can’t go

ASC offers a variety of solutions including:
- Single Sided Flex
- Double Sided Flex
- Multi-layer Flex
- Rigid-Flex