Electrical connector on a flexible carrier
AssigneeNeoconix, Inc.
InventorJohn D. Williams
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Abstract
A compliant, scalable, thermal-electrical-mechanical, flexible electrical connector. In one configuration, the flexible electrical connector comprises a flexible substrate, a first and second conductive layer, and a plating contiguously applied over the conductive layers and holes through the substrate. The first and second conductive layers are adhered to opposite sides of the flexible substrate and have a plurality of raised contact elements in registration with at least a subset of the holes. At least some contact elements on the first and second conductive layers that oppose each other are in electrical communication with one another by way of the plating.
Claims25
A flexible electrical connector, comprising:
- a flexible substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the flexible substrate defining a plurality of through holes from the first surface to the second surface;
- a first conductive layer adhered to the first surface of the flexible substrate;
- a second conductive layer adhered to the second surface of the flexible substrate,
- each of the first and second conductive layers having a plurality of raised contact elements in registration with at least a subset of the plurality of through holes;
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- a plating contiguously applied over the first conductive layer, the plurality of through holes in the flexible substrate, and the second conductive layer such that at least some contact elements on the first and second conductive layers that oppose each other are in electrical communication with one another by way of the plating.
A flexible electrical connector, comprising:
- a flexible substrate;
- a first set of chemically singulated contacts adhered to a first surface of the flexible substrate;
- a second set of chemically singulated contacts adhered to a second surface of the flexible substrate, the second surface being opposite the first surface;
- respective ones of at least some of the first set and second set of singulated contacts being in electrical contact with each other by plating contiguously applied over the respective ones of at least some of the first set and second set of singulated contacts and over through holes in the flexible substrate that are in registration with the respective ones of at least some of the first set and second set of singulated contacts, and
- the singulated contacts comprising contact elements extending above the flexible substrate and towards a center of a corresponding through hole.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.