Flexible substrate, mounting method of flexible substrate, and lighting system
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsHideo Kawabe, Yoichi Toriumi, Kenichi Kabasawa, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hirokazu Imai, Masatoshi Ueno
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Abstract
A flexible substrate includes a stripe-shaped substrate main body portion; a comb-like portion composed of a plurality of protrusions that extends from one end in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the substrate main body portion, in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and electronic devices that are arranged on the plurality of protrusions, respectively, in which the substrate main body portion and the comb-like portion are bendable.
Claims15
A flexible substrate comprising:
- a stripe-shaped substrate main body portion;
- a comb-like portion composed of a plurality of protrusions that extends from one end in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the substrate main body portion, in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction;
- and
- electronic devices that are arranged on the plurality of protrusions, respectively,
- wherein the substrate main body portion and the comb-like portion are bendable.
A mounting method of a flexible substrate, which includes a stripe-shaped substrate main body portion, a comb-like portion composed of a plurality of protrusions that extends from one end in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the substrate main body portion, in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and electronic devices that are arranged on the plurality of protrusions, respectively, in which the substrate main body portion and the comb-like portion are bendable,
- the method comprising:
- bonding the substrate main body portion of the flexible substrate in the circumferential direction of a cylindrical portion of a chassis, which has the cylindrical portion and a conical portion connected to one end in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion and has a cross-section having a certain shape when the cylindrical portion is cut in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction, such that the comb-like portion faces the conical portion, and
- bending the protrusions of the comb-like portion along the conical surface of the conical portion.
A lighting system comprising:
- a flexible substrate, which includes a stripe-shaped substrate main body portion, a comb-like portion composed of a plurality of protrusions that extends from one end in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the substrate main body portion, in the direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and electronic devices that are arranged on the plurality of protrusions, respectively, in which the substrate main body portion and the comb-like portion are bendable;
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- a chassis that has a cylindrical portion and a conical portion connected to one end in the axial direction of the cylindrical portion and has a cross-section having a certain shape when the cylindrical portion is cut in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction,
- wherein the substrate main body portion of the flexible substrate is bonded in the circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion of the chassis such that the comb-like portion faces the conical portion while the protrusions of the comb-like portion are bonded along the conical surface of the conical portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.