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Minco, a designer and manufacturer of critical components for critical applications, has a Flex Circuits Design Kit that lets you see first hand if these compact, high density circuits can help make your designs lighter, smaller and more reliable. The kit gives you the tools and information you need to go from flex circuit inception to physical mock-up. You'll quickly learn how to integrate different types of flex circuits into your application to help improve performance.

The kit includes a start-up guide, two sheets of polyester film to make your mock-up, a design kit sample case, a reference materials CD and an offer for a free mechanical sample of your design with actual flex circuit stack-up materials. The kit can be ordered online or by calling Minco at 763-571-3121. If you would like more information before ordering the kit, you can get a free copy the Flex Circuit Design Guide.

Minco flex circuits offer a number of benefits:

• Space and weight savings: A single flex circuit can replace several hardboards, cables and connectors. Think of how your designs can improve when you can save up to 75% of the space and weight of traditional wiring.

• Highly repeatable and fast to install: They fit only one way, so you'll see highly repeatable routing paths in your assembly. This eliminates wire routing errors and reduces testing, rework and rejects. No labor-intensive wiring harnesses.

• Ideal in harsh environments: Encased in polyimide, this dielectric layer protects the wiring and connectors far better than soldermasks.

• Long duty cycles: Thin and robust to withstand thousands to millions of flexing cycles without breaking. This reduces maintenance and downtime.

• Can withstand high vibration: High ductility and low mass withstands high vibrations and accelerations. Ideal for high reliability applications.

Different styles of flex circuits offer different advantages and benefits. In addition to simpler, single layer flex circuits, Minco can design and manufacture double layer, multilayer, multilayer with no plated through-holes, rigid flex, Flex-Coils™ and integrated flex circuits that incorporate sensors or Thermofoil™ flexible heaters.

In addition to a wide number of flex circuit styles, Minco offers many flex circuit design options including rigid-flex hybrid circuits, stiffeners, factory-forming, wave solder carriers, pins, coils, shielding, special electronics populations, selective bonding and integral connectors, heaters and sensors.

Minco's Quality Management System is certified to ISO 9001:2000/AS9100B. Minco flex circuits are proven. Successful installations can be found in the space shuttle engine controls, pacemakers, laser gyros, surgical tools, security detectors, the Trident II missile, and Mark 46 torpedoes. Minco documents, monitors and verifies all processes. Optional testing, cycling and micro-sectioning are available.

The Minco Engineer2Engineer Community gives you ready access to engineers at Minco who are happy to discuss your flex circuit requirements. You can access this community via the website or phone 763-571-3121 for more information.