INTRODUCTION

Diversity is a trademark of flexible circuits and also they are as varied in their application as they remain in their design. Flex PCB have, for long right into the past and also proceeding today, offered in a variety of demanding applications. As an affiliation technique, they are unparalleled in terms of their versatility. The pattern is anticipated to proceed as an increasing number of developers end up being familiar with flex circuit technology’s lots of advantages.
The transformative path of Flex PCB modern technology has actually not been without challenges, and numerous very early customers suffered problems. The very first customers of flexible circuits experienced problems as well as failings due to a mix of variables. As an example, early flex materials did not meet the same criteria these days. Enhancement- ally, customers did not have a basic understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the technology in regards to the item design and/or the design policies that had to be followed to make sure success. With each other, these elements made the development path rocky for some individuals. For us today, Flex PCB innovation endured its infancy to end up being the vitally essential option it is today in the arena of digital product packaging modern technologies.
According to Prismark Partners, equally as this 4th edition of Flex PCB Technology prepares to go to press in 2011, the largest application market for Flex PCB is presents at a 28% share, complied with by computers at 27%, communications at 20%, consumer electronic devices 12%, automotive 5%, industrial/medical 4%, armed forces flex 3% and also the final 1%, incorporated circuit (IC) packing applications. Display screens are a crossover application and also are represented in almost each of the more frequently pointed out applications and markets determined in table 3-1.
The table provides a little tasting of products in the diverse electronics market that have been efficiently offered by as well as benefited from flexible circuits as well as gives an indication of merely exactly how extensively Flex PCB modern technology is being made use of to address electronic packing problems.

Automotive

• Instrument panels
• Underhood controls
• Headliner circuits
• ABS systems

Computers & Peripherals

• Dot matrix print heads
• Disk drives
• Ink jet print heads
• Printer head cables

Consumer

• Digital & video cameras
• Personal entertainment
• Exercise monitors
• Hand-held calculators

Industrial Controls

• Laser measuring
• Inductor coil pickups
• Copy machines
• Heater coils

Medical

• Hearing aids
• Heart pacemakers
• Defibrillators
• Ultrasound probe heads

Instruments

• NMR analyzers
• X-ray equipment
• Particle counters
• Infrared analyzers

Telecom

• Cell phones
• High speed cables
• Base stations
• Smart cards & RFID

Military & Aerospace

• Satellites
• Instrumentation panels
• Plasma displays
• Radar systems
• Jet engine controls
• Night vision systems
• Smart weapons
• Laser gyroscopes
• Torpedoes
• Electronic shielding
• Radio communications

• Surveillance systems