Flexible printed circuit board mounting structure and recording/reproducing apparatus using the same
AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsTetsuya Nomura, Ryu Yunokuchi, Kouzou Onodera, Toru Sawada
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Abstract
Disclosed is an inexpensive structure for mounting a flexible printed circuit board to a hard circuit board without using a connector. The terminal section of the flexible printed circuit board is mounted to a holding member, which is secured to the hard circuit board to electrically connect the wiring pattern of the terminal section to the electric circuit of the hard circuit board, whereby it is possible to mount the flexible printed circuit board to the hard circuit board without using an expensive connector, thereby achieving an improvement in terms of cost and operability.
Claims16
A flexible printed circuit board mounting structure comprising a holding member which comprises a main body portion and a door portion rotatably provided on said main body portion, wherein terminal sections of flexible printed circuit boards are mounted to each of said main body portion and said door portion, said holding member being secured to a hard circuit board to thereby establish an electrical connection between wiring patterns of said terminal sections and an electric circuit of said hard circuit board, wherein said terminal sections of said flexible printed circuit boards are mounted to each of said main body portion and said door portion such that they are parallel and in the same direction with each other;
- and wherein a portion continuous to the terminal section of said flexible circuit board mounted to said main body portion extends in a direction parallel with a portion continuous to the terminal section of said flexible circuit board mounted to said door body portion.
A recording/reproducing apparatus, including a chassis;
- a hard circuit board including an electric circuit;
- a holding member;
- and a flexible printed circuit board including a terminal section having a wiring pattern thereon, and wherein said terminal section of the flexible printed circuit board, for transmitting recording/reproducing, is mounted to said holding member, wherein said hard circuit board is arranged on the chassis, and wherein said holding member is plugged into said hard circuit board, whereby the wiring pattern of said terminal section is brought into close contact with the electric circuit of said hard circuit board to thereby facilitate soldering the wiring pattern to the electric circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.