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Flex heaters, also known as flexible heaters, are thin, lightweight and highly flexible heating elements designed to provide controlled and even heat distribution in various applications. Their flexibility allows them to conform to curved or irregularly shaped...

At All Flex Solutions, we’re often asked about the cost of rigid flex circuits, namely the reasons behind their higher price point compared to traditional options. For context, a typical hybrid PCB will cost about seven times that of the same design in a hard board,...

Rigid-flex PCBs (printed circuit boards) are a hybrid type of PCB that combine elements of both rigid and flexible circuit technologies to provide new advantages and offer suitability for new applications. The benefits of PCBs fabricated with both rigid and flexible...

Application: What Tooled methods to use when excising parts from a panel. In the flexible circuit and flexible heater industry parts are processed in panel form through the majority of the build process to help keep unit prices low. When it comes time to remove the...

Application: What Tool-Less Methods To Use When Excising Parts From A Panel.   Tool-Less Methods   Laser The most common and the most accurate tool-less method for excising a flexible circuit/heater is laser cutting. Laser cutting is done by an optically...

This article is the third and final part of methods for imaging etches resist. The first part discussed screen printing; the second part discussed traditional photo exposing. The third part discusses laser direct imaging (LDI).The basic process sequence for LDI is...

While a well-designed flexible circuit will eliminate many connectors, ultimately most flexible circuits need to connect to something. Probably the most common entity that a flex circuit connects to is a rigid printed circuit board, but cable harnesses, polyester...

Plating copper through holes or vias is a requirement for double sided and multilayer circuits. In a previous blog we discussed the plating process; specifically copper seed coating using electroless copper and shadow® plating, which is then followed with an electro...

There are many reasons an end user will specify the copper thickness of a printed circuit. The most obvious reason would be for current carrying capacity, but copper thickness also directly impacts thermal performance and impedance. All these are vital properties...