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Rigid flex printed circuit boards, or PCBs, serve a vital role across multiple industries where reliability is a must in less-than-ideal situations. They are an excellent go-between between the high-density circuitry of hardboards and the durability and flexibility of...

Heating elements are a requirement for a diverse number of industries, each needing its own set of performance requirements. Sometimes, the parts and places that need heating need to be bigger or more compact than traditional heating elements. Enter flexible heaters....

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,...

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...