Electronic circuit laid flat and corresponding three-dimensional electronic circuit
AssigneeZodiac Aero Electric
InventorsVianney Pouget, Antonio Simao
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Abstract
This electronic circuit, includes a set of electronic boards intended to support components and linked together by joining elements. The joining elements include curved flexible printed circuits linking two opposing ends of two electronic boards running side by side, the said curved flexible printed circuits being foldable for erecting the electronic circuit into a volume so that the electronic circuit comprises electronic boards placed opposite one another.
Claims9
A flat electronic circuit, comprising a set of electronic boards intended to support components and linked together by joining elements, wherein the joining elements comprise curved flexible printed circuits linking two ends of two electronic boards of the set of electronic boards, the two electronic boards being arranged side by side, wherein the flat electronic circuit comprises two parallel rectilinear branches linked together by their ends by two curved flexible printed circuits so as to form a closed flat electronic circuit and each parallel rectilinear branch comprises electronic boards linked by a straight flexible printed circuit, the said curved flexible printed circuits being foldable and the straight flexible printed circuits being bendable for erecting the flat electronic circuit into a three-dimensional electronic circuit comprising electronic boards placed opposite one another;
- wherein said curved flexible printed circuits are foldable along fold lines running at 45° with respect to the rectilinear branches.
A three-dimensional electronic circuit obtained on the basis of a flat electronic circuit comprising a set of electronic boards intended to support components and linked together by joining elements, wherein the joining elements comprise folded curved flexible printed circuits linking two ends of two electronic boards side by side so that the electronic circuit comprises electronic boards placed opposite one another, wherein the flat electronic circuit comprises two parallel rectilinear branches linked together by their ends by two curved flexible printed circuits so as to form a closed flat electronic circuit and each parallel rectilinear branches comprising electronic boards linked by a straight flexible printed circuit, and wherein said three-dimensional electronic circuit being formed by folding the curved flexible printed circuits and bending the straight flexible printed circuits, so that the electronic boards of the three-dimensional electronic circuit are oriented in four different planes;
- wherein said curved flexible printed circuits are foldable along fold lines running at 45° with respect to the rectilinear branches.
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