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Reliability and Durability. Flex circuits can absorb and reduce effects of shock and vibration.
Heat Dissipation. Flex circuits can dissipate heat at much better rates than do other dielectric materials.
Economical. Designers can reduce the packaging and material costs because the thin and flexible polyimide film requires a far smaller area.
Flexibility. The elastic nature of flex circuits allows them to be packaged, folded, and positioned around folds and edges.
Weight and Space Savings. Typically, flex circuit boards take up only 10% of the weight and space of wires within a device. Flex circuits also can decrease the dimensions and weight of devices by up to 60%.
Bending Cycles. Flexible circuit boards are made with polyimide as the standard base material, capable of as many as 200,000 bending cycles.
Types of flex circuits:
Single-Sided Flexible Circuits: Single copper conductor layer on a flexible dielectric film.
Double-Sided Flexible Circuits: Double-sided copper clad material with top and bottom cover films. The two conductive layers have an insulating layer between.
Multi-Layer Flexible Circuit Boards: A combination of single and/or double-sided flex circuits laminated with adhesive onto a single and/or double-sided material.
Rigid Flex Circuits: Used to accommodate the entire conductor pattern of electric circuit within one component.
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Summit Interconnect is one of the leading providers of complex, rigid, and flexible printed circuit boards in North America, offering solutions ranging from advanced prototyping to high mix, low-to-mid volume production. Summit serves customers across the aerospace, defense, and other highly demanding commercial sectors and has facilities in California, Illinois, and Toronto, Canada. Summit is a recognized industry leader in quick-turn manufacturing and has expertise with a wide range of materials like high-speed digital, RF/microwave, and mixed constructions.