Flexible cables and flex PCBs are wonderful. You could choose to carefully make a cable bundle out of ten wires and try to squish them to have a thin footprint – or you could put an FFC connector onto ...

Myrtle Beach, S.C. – AVX Corp.'s Connector Division says that its flexible printed-circuit (FPC) connectors provide secure pc-board connections in handheld devices. Offering a low (0.9-mm) profile, ...

Connecting multiple printed circuit boards (PCBs)? When is rigid the right choice? And when should you opt for flexible? Hitaltech, the connecting technology specialists, share some general advice.

GTK is supplying through-hole and sirface-mount flexible jumper strips in a variety of pitches and lengths, with a choice of insulation type. “Flexible jumper strips offer OEMs a versatile method of ...

Building electronics in unconventional form factors with high packaging density is possible thanks to three-dimensional circuit designs using flex and rigid-flex printed circuit boards (PCBs).

Ness Ziona, Israel. Nano Dimension announced today that it has successfully 3D-printed a series of multilayered rigid PCBs, connected through printed flexible conductive connections. This process ...

Flexible printed circuit boards (PCBs) aren’t much different than rigid boards during the design phase, except that the designer must account for the mechanical complexity associated with flex ...

A while ago, [drygol] was asked to repair a few old Amiga keyboards. The key switches worked fine, but in the past decade or two, the flexible PCB ribbon connector has been mistreated, and was in an ...

Manufacturers of PCBs are under constant pressure to increase density, shrink footprints, diminish profiles, manage thermals, and enable higher data rates, all while improving reliability and lowering ...