End connecting portion of a planar circuit body, and method of making same
AssigneeYazaki Corporation
InventorsYoshinobu Akiha, Hitoshi Ushijima
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Abstract
A connecting end portion of a planar circuit body and method of making same in which an end portion is directly formed into a terminal thereby improving conductivity and simplifying the connection. According to one embodiment, a connecting end portion of a flat cable is formed by laminating a rectangular circuit conductor with an insulating cover material, a terminal member is fixedly secured to the planar circuit conductor at an end portion of the circuit conductor with a conductive adhesive agent, and plated metal layer is formed thereon.
Claims10
A method of manufacturing an end connecting portion of a planar circuit which contains a circuit conductor, comprising:
- exposing a circuit conductor at an end portion of the planar circuit by removing a portion of an insulatiing cover member of the circuit conductor from one end of the circuit conductor;
- forming a layer of thermo-setting conductive adhesive agent on a surface of the exposed circuit conductor;
- connecting a terminal member to said layer of conductive adhesive agent;
- thermally solidifying said layer of conductive adhesive agent thereby fixedly securing said connected terminal member;
- and
- masking a portion of said terminal member and placing said terminal member in a plating tank for plating unmasked portions of said terminal member with copper.
A method of manufacturing a planar circuit which contains a circuit conductor, comprising:
- applying a conductive paste on an insulating film member by screen printing;
- connecting a terminal member to an end portion of said conductive paste, prior to solidification of said conductive paste;
- solidifying said conductive paste forming a circuit conductor, thereby fixedly securing said terminal member to an end portion of said circuit conductor;
- and
- masking a portion of said terminal member and placing said terminal member in a plating tank for plating unmasked portions of said terminal member with copper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.