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US 2006/0189179 A1Published application
Flat flex cable (FFC) with embedded spring contacts for connecting to a PCB or like electronic device
AssigneeNeoconix, Inc.
InventorsLarry Dittmann, John Williams, William Long
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Abstract
This invention pertains to flat flex cable (FFC) with embedded spring contacts at one or both ends, and in between the ends as needed, to engage electrical devices by inserting the spring contacts on an end of the FFC into a clamp or receptacle that secures the spring contacts into engagement with electrical contacts on the electrical device and with electrical contacts on a camera module as used in cell phones.
Claims11
A flat flex cable (FFC) comprising:
- one or more electrical traces embedded in flexible insulating material;
- one or more spring contacts electrically connected at one end of the FFC to one or more electrical traces;
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- one or more electrical contacts electrically connected to electrical traces at the other end of the FFC.
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The steps of making a FFC having spring contacts on an end comprising:
- exposing electrical traces in a FFC;
- bonding a sheet of conductive material to the exposed electrical traces;
- masking the sheet of conductive material to define shapes of contacts;
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- etching the conductive material to singulate the shaped contacts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.