Industry’s first ultra thin, ultra long Flexible Printed Circuit
FPC is used to enable the thin wiring possessing to its thin, light, highly flexible and highly dense characteristics. But due to unavailability of thin FPCs, thin cables have been used instead as a wiring material for narrow and long places. The conventional thin wire has inherent issues namely that the thinner the cable the more complex harness-making process becomes which increases the chances for incorrect wiring. Based on this OKI Electric Cable has announced the development of an ultra thin, ultra long flexible printed circuit (FPC). The new FPC has achieved a narrow width of 2mm and a length of up to 3 meter which was so far difficult to make. The new FPC offers a wiring pitch of 180 m doubling the density of conventional thin cables. The ultra thin and long FPC with highly flexible characteristic enables high speed data transfer as well as offering flexibility during the product design. The newly developed FPC due to these characteristics can be targeted for applications such as microscopes, robots, as well as the sensor application in medical and industrial equipments. With the use of new FPC it will be now easier to make functional and modular devices by employing surface mounting of low profile connectors as well as components packaging such as for LEDs and CCDs (Charged Coupled Device). The new FPC comes in a one or two sided structure. In case of two-sided structure, impedance matching can be done upon requests enabling the FPC to be used as a thin coaxial cable for transferring image data at high speed. Finally, the new FPC has achieved bending specification of over 100million times (1.5R). The sale of new FPC has started as of June10th.
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