Abstract: with the upgrading of electronic products, FPC (flexible
circuit board), owning its unique advantages ,cater to the electronic products development trend : lighter, thinner, shorter, smaller, which has played an important cornerstone in the field of electronic information industry . In this paper, through the analysis of FPC in practical applications, we analyzes the application of especially on the three areas like mobile phones, automotive, health care equipment of FPC ,to make a prospect of the development in the future.
Key words:FPC FPCA FPC,application ,Automotive electronics,Health care equipment,SMT,Mobile phone
Firstly,Summary of the flexible circuit board
Flexible Circuit board (Flexible Printed Circuit, FPC), also known as soft Circuit boards, Flexible Circuit board, or FPC soft board for short.With the advantages of high density of wiring, light weight, thin thickness, less wiring space limitations, high flexibility, etc.Completely accords with the development trend of electronic products ,lighter, thinner, shorter, smaller,which is the effective solution to satisfy the requirement of miniaturization of electronic products and mobile .FPC can be freely bended, coiled, folded, and can withstand millions of times dynamic bending ,without damage to the wire.Any arrangement in accordance with the spatial layout requirements is ok.It can arbitrarily move in three-dimensional space and scale, so as to achieve the effect of the integration components assembly and wire connection.FPC can greatly reduce the volume and weight of the electronic products,which match the electronic products needs of the development of high density, miniaturization, high reliability direction.Therefore, FPC is widely used in PC and peripheral products, automotive electronics, medical equipment, communication products and consumer electronics and other fields.
FPCA(Flexible Printed Circuit Assembly) is FPC components,FPC industry chain extension.One of the main techniques is the SMT industry.SMT(Surface Mount Technology)is electronic circuits Surface mount technology,SMT or surface mount technology.It is SMC/SMD for short, there can be no pin or wire surface components installed on the surface of printed circuit board assembly or other substrate surface.Through the reflow soldering or welding methods, it is welding assembly of electronic circuit technology.Application of SMT technology has the following advantages:
Firstly, it is with the high density for assembly electronic products,small volume, light weight.The volume and weight of the patch element is only about 1/10 of the traditional instrumentation components.After using SMT, electronic products is smaller by 40% ~ 60% in volume, 60% ~ 80% reduction in weight.Secondly, it own high reliability,strong the aseismic capability, low solder joint defect rate , good high frequency characteristics.Thirdly, it reduce the electromagnetic and radio frequency interference.Fourthly, it is easily to realize automation,and to improve production efficiency.Fifthly, that can save material, energy, equipment, manpower, time, etc.
Secondly, the application of the flexible circuit board
Electronic products, light, thin, short, small demand trend, turn to the FPC rapidly from civil, to consumer electronics.In recent years, a large number of the high-tech electronics are Emerged ,and mostly have been adopted the flexible circuit board. What does Japanese scholars say in "the high density flexible printed circuit board", is that almost all the internal of the electrical products have been brought in the flexible circuit board,and Now I'm afraid it's hard to find electronic products
without the use of the flexible circuit board .
Thirdly, the market prospect of the flexible circuit board.
With the advancement of informatization, intelligent building, the market demand for the flexible circuit board will be bigger and bigger.
(1)The mobile phone market.In terms of mobile phones, FPC exist mainly as the connection parts between folding part signal and rotating parts signal in the mobile phone .Now,the general mobile phone should be with more than 3 piece of FPC .As being light, thin, short, small ,high feature phones are in popular, which is driving the FPC demand.The ministry of industry and information technology released 2014 communication operators statistical bulletin shows,mobile phone users Net increase 56.98 million ,and the total is 1.286 billion.Mobile phone users universality rate reach 94.5 telephones/one hundred people.That is 3.7 telephones/one hundred people higher then the last year.2018 smartphone users index represents half of the global mobile phone users,which means that the feature phones will become the minority in the field of electronic communications.Smart phone FPC content is higher than that of general electronic products, using 5 ~ 12 pieces of FPC.That is Higher than that of feature phones 1 ~ 5,and Each smart phone FPC output value is about 2 ~ 3 times that of feature phones.Such a huge market will inevitably drive the rapid development of the related fields.Smartphones phase module, antenna, monitor, USB line cannot leave the figure of FPC.
(2) The car electronic market.Under the FPC trend of precision components,based on the three-dimensional structure of the car body while Wiring area is Narrow and bent,we Using FPC components can meet the design requirements more.
(3) The medical monitoring equipment.In the past ten years,China's medical equipment market Sales scale ,has been Increased from 17.9 billion yuan of 2001 to 212 billion yuan of 2013.That has increased by 11.84 times ,Eliminating price factors.With the rapid development of economy in our country,our government pay more attention to County, township, community and other grassroots medical and health system construction.Aging, two-child policy, consumption upgrade, the health investment, policy support and so on work together to promote Health care equipment to a sizable development space,based on the overall level of the domestic is remaining at low levels at present .The domestic medical equipment industry development prospects is worth looking forward to.
To sum up, along with the social demand for information, intelligent has been enhanced unceasingly,and Almost been penetrated into all walks of life.It is hard to find slightly more complex electronics without the use of FPC and FPC components.As the country will further invest in various fields of electronic information construction,and the quickening pace will be in downstream areas of electronic information construction,the FPC and FPC components development must be drived up .