# US 2019/0357352 A1 · Flexible Conductor Track for Connecting Electronic Modules, Particularly Modules of a Camera to be Installed in a Vehicle > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0357352 A1 - Document ID: US20190357352A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/478,991 - Filed: 2017-12-05 - Published: 2019-11-21 - Earliest claimed: 2017-01-19 - Assignees: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH - Applicants: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH - Inventors: Konrad ROTHENHAEUSLER; Franz PFEIFFER; Thilo BERG; Jos BECHER; Andreas SCHLEINKOFER; Martin VALLENDOR; Matthias DROPMANN; Oscar TORRES ALSINA; Steffen GOERMER; Patrick ALBRECHT; Hendrik POWILEIT; Dieter KROEKEL - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190357352A1 ## CPC - H05K 1/0281: {Reinforcement details thereof} - H05K 1/147: {at least one of the printed circuits being bent or folded, e.g. by using a flexible printed circuit (H05K1/148 takes precedence)} - H05K 1/0393: {Flexible materials (H05K1/038 takes precedence; specific organic compositions are classified in H05K1/0313 and subgroups)} - H05K 3/361: {Assembling flexible printed circuits with other printed circuits} - H05K 2201/09063: Holes or slots in insulating substrate not used for electrical connections - H05K 2201/09236: Parallel layout - H05K 2201/10121: Optical component, e.g. opto-electronic component - H05K 2201/2009: Reinforced areas, e.g. for a specific part of a flexible printed circuit - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract A flexible conductor track (10) for connecting electronic modules, includes conductor track structures (12), two connecting regions (14, 16) for electrically connecting the conductor track structures (12) to corresponding conductor tracks of electronic modules, and at least one long slit (18, 20) in a region (11) in the conductor track (10) located between the two connecting regions. At least one of the connecting regions is designed to be connected to a corresponding connecting region of an electronic module by anisotropic conductive film adhesive (ACFA) bonding. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A flexible conductor track for connecting electronic modules, comprising: conductor track structures, two connecting regions configured to electrically connect the conductor track structures to corresponding conductor tracks of the electronic modules, and at least one long slit disposed in a region in the flexible conductor track located between the two connecting regions, wherein at least one of the connecting regions is configured to be connected to a corresponding connecting region of one of the electronic modules by anisotropic conductive film adhesive bonding. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The flexible conductor track according to claim 1, wherein a long slit among the at least one long slit ends at a predetermined distance before the connecting regions. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The flexible conductor track according to claim 1, wherein a long slit among the at least one long slit has a width that decreases toward at least one of the connecting regions. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The flexible conductor track according to claim 1, wherein neighboring ones of the conductor track structures are arranged with spacing distances therebetween and/or the conductor track structures have widths, which spacing distances and/or widths are smaller in a region of a long slit among the at least one long slit than in at least one of the connecting regions. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The flexible conductor track according to claim 1, having a laminated construction of multiple layers made of plastics, adhesives and metals, including a first covering plastic layer, a first adhesive layer, a first copper layer, a middle plastic layer, a second copper layer, a second adhesive layer and a second covering plastic layer. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The flexible conductor track according to claim 1, further comprising an additional reinforcing layer configured to counteract bending forces acting on the flexible conductor track. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The flexible conductor track according to claim 6, wherein the additional reinforcing layer is configured as a line grid, a dot pattern or a cross grid applied extensively to the flexible conductor track. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The flexible conductor track according to claim 6, wherein the additional reinforcing layer covers an entire surface of at least one of the connecting regions. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The flexible conductor track according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the connecting regions is wider than a region of the flexible conductor track comprising the at least one long slit. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The flexible conductor track according to claim 1, further having one or more inspection windows for alignment purposes in at least one of the connecting regions. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) An optical module for a camera configured to be installed in a vehicle, the optical module comprising an image sensor module, a lens, and a flexible conductor track according to claim 1, the image sensor module comprising an image sensor on a first one of the connecting regions of the flexible conductor track, which is connected to the conductor track structures by anisotropic conductive film adhesive bonding, and a backplate on which the image sensor rests, and the lens being fastened to the first connecting region of the flexible conductor track by adhesive so that the lens can produce optical imaging on the image sensor. ### Claim 12 An electronic arrangement comprising an electronic module, a flexible conductor track and an anisotropic conductive film adhesive, wherein: the flexible conductor track comprises a first connecting region, a second connecting region and plural longitudinally extending conductor track structures that each longitudinally extend from the first connecting region to the second connecting region and that each mechanically and electrically connect the first connecting region with the second connecting region; the conductor track structures are laterally spaced apart from one another, and a respective elongated longitudinally extending open slit is bounded between respective neighboring ones of the conductor track structures and extends longitudinally between the first connecting region and the second connecting region; and the anisotropic conductive film adhesive bonds the electronic module to the first connecting region of the flexible conductor track.