Flex and Rigid-flex PCB Manufacturer in Shenzhen with Cheaper price
Rigid-flex PCBs are a combination of both rigid and flex components. These PCBs are crafted from flexible and rigid layers of circuit substrates and circuit board materials.
Flex PCBs have a flexible base. Due to their ability to endure vibration, fold or bend into different shapes, and disperse heat, flexible PCBs are becoming more and more popular in today’s electronics.
What is rigid flex pcb board?
Rigid-flex PCB board, it is a circuit board that combines flexible and rigid circuit board technology in the application. Most rigid-flex boards are composed of multiple layers of flexible circuit boards, which are attached to one or more rigid boards from the outside and/or from the inside, depending on the design of the application. The flexible substrate is designed to be in a constant deflection state, and is usually formed as a deflection curve during rigid flex pcb manufacturing or assembly.
Hitech rigid flex pcb manufacturing process
After the production of FPC flexible boards is completed, the production of Hitech rigid flex pcb boards can be completed through the following processes.
- Punching
Drill holes on FR4 and PP film, and the design on the alignment hole is not the same as the general through hole. After the punching is completed, browning is required.
- Riveting
Laminate copper clad laminates, PP adhesives, and FPC circuit boards and place them neatly. The original old process is to laminate and pressing step by step, but it is a waste of time. After many attempts, we found that the stacking process can be completed once.
- Laminate
This is a relatively complete step in the production of rigid-flex pcb board. Most of the materials are integrated for the first time. First, the bottom layer is copper clad laminate and PP film, above are the FPC flexible board produced in the previous process, and a PP film is placed on the FPC flexible board, then place the last layer of copper clad laminate. All materials to be laminated are placed in order and pressed together.
- Trimming
That is to remove the part of the circuit board where there is no circuit at the edge of the circuit board currently and in the future. Afterwards, it is necessary to measure whether the material has excessive expansion and contraction. Because the PI used in the production of flexible boards is also expansion and contraction, this has a very large impact on the production of circuit boards.
- Drilling
This step is the first step to turn on the entire circuit board, and the production parameters should be produced according to the design parameters.
- Desmear
First, remove the scum generated by the drilling of the circuit board, and then use plasma cleaning to clean the through holes and the board surface.
- Immersion copper
This step is the process of electroplating through holes, also known as hole metallization. Realize through-hole power conduction.
- Plate plating
Partially electroplating copper on the upper surface of the electroplating hole makes the copper thickness above the through hole exceed a certain height of the copper clad board surface.
- Outer dry film positive film production
The same as the production process of the anti-corrosion dry film of the FPC board, the circuit to be etched on the copper clad board is made. After the development is completed, check the circuit.
- Graphic plating
After the initial copper sinking, pattern electroplating is performed, and the current time and copper plating wire are used according to the design requirements to reach a certain electroplating area.
- Alkaline etching
- Print solder mask
This step has the same effect as the FPC board protective film. We see that the PCB rigid board is generally green. This step is generally called green oil printing. After the printing is completed, the inspection is carried out.
- Open the cover
Cover opening, which is the area where the FPC board is located, but the area not needed by the rigid board is laser cut to expose the FPC board.
- Curing
It is also a baking process.
- Surface treatment
Generally, at this time, a rigid-flex PCB board has been manufactured, and only the metallization treatment is required on the surface of the circuit board, which can play a role in preventing wear and oxidation. Generally, this process is to soak the circuit board in a chemical solution, and the metal elements in the solution are densely distributed on the circuit board circuit.
- Characters printing
The positions of the parts to be assembled and some basic product information are printed on the rigid-flex board in the form of characters.
- Test
This is a process of checking whether the circuit board is qualified. The test items are tested for electrical properties according to customer requirements. The tests generally include impedance test, open and short circuit test and so on.
- Final inspection
- Packaging and shipping
There are many ways to package circuit boards. Generally, Hitech use packaging bags to separate them, and then use a vacuum packaging machine to vacuum package the rigid-flex PCB boards.
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