Recently, flexible electronic technology has begun to be used for commercial purposes. What did the product become after commercializing? Let us explore it together in this blog. GE Healthcare Wristband Prototype Researchers from General Electric (GE) Medical Group demonstrated a wristband prototype using a stress-relieving structure and a low-temperature solder-mounted BGA. They are now investigating a patch that embeds four medical-grade biosensors with manufacturable materials. Thinner and lighter flexible Arduino development board A member in NextFlex has created a small, flexible Arduino development board that has been described last year with its proof-of-concept capabilities. However, compared to the traditional development board that is three times heavier, this new flexible board only needs to perform nine (previously 19) low temperature steps, and the chip used is also thinned to 30 microns. Thin wafer process commercialization Over the past one year, American Semiconductor has begun thinning 200mm (mm) and 300mm wafers to 5-10 microns（um） for suppliers such as AMS, Cypress, Nordic and NXP. The company will process approximately 1,500 wafers per week at its Boise plant. These chips include temperature sensors, NFC transceivers and the Arm Cortex-M0 processor, which are used in automotive and aircraft systems as well as white household appliances. UAV with conformal antenna Boeing uses 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz and 75 GHz flexible antennas for flight control, streaming video and collision avoidance for short-haul unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Flex intelligent shirt debut Flex showcases intelligent sportswear and military shirts that use sensors with dry electrodes and DuPont's conductive fabric Intexar for heat dissipation. The jackets worn by the US national team at the Winter Olympics used DuPont materials. Jabil creates printed circuits on plastic Contract manufacturer Jabil demonstrates its ability to build flexible electronics for the augmented reality (AR), automotive and medical markets. Test, medical flexible panel MicroConnex has produced a small number of display board demonstrating its ability to produce up to 5,000 flexible panels per month at the Snoqualmie plant in Washington, DC, which is currently manufacturing products for testing probe cards, hearing aids and ultrasonic transducers. After the commercialization of flexible electronic technology, the products are diversified. For flexible circuit boards, Fast turn PCB is also at the leading level. In addition to the conventional 2.4.6 laminates, we are also very good at making multi-layer flexible boards to ensure that you can meet the commercialization needs of your flex board products. Click on the link to link more about the process capabilities for the flex board.

Key equipment for PCB intelligent manufacturing --legend printing machine + automatic up-down material system The application of intelligent equipment will release more people from labor, and instead, the machine will take on more mechanical and repetitive work, helping the enterprises to control the rising labor cost. And it will contribute a lot to enter a high-efficiency intelligence production mode under the large-scale mass production. This blog will introduce an intelligent legend printer + automatic up-down material system, which achieves the replacement upgrades from machine to automation equipment and become the key equipment for PCB boards manufacturing. Equipment introduction: Legend printer + automatic up-down material system * Legend printer: It has the advantages of high precision, high quality, high software flexibility and strong equipment expansion. * Automatic up-down material system: It can be used to replace manual repetitive, mechanical work. Compared with manual operation, it can reduce labor intensity and improve production efficiency. It is suitable for PCB legend printing processing to replace the traditional screen printing, cooperating with the automatic up-down material system to provide PCB manufacturers with a set of high-precision, high-quality and high-efficiency printing production solutions. Equipment Characteristics: 1. Stable output capacity: reduce the problem of poor productivity stability caused by human factors. 2. Good printing stability: legend printer + automatic up-down material system can ensure the stability of the entire system operation. 3. Excellent printing quality: mass production model PY300 has a large number of customer verification and can ensure the stability of printing quality. 4. High printing accuracy: high-quality optical alignment and automatic expansion and contraction compensation, to ensure the alignment accuracy of the printing. 5. Automatic up-down material system cost-effective: to achieve automatic flip printing function. 6. Saving labor costs: You can control multiple machines by one person or operate the machine with one person. Print sample: The advantages of printing compared to traditional silk screen: 1.The production cycle is short, no need to make a stencil. The pre-curing can reduce printing errors and baking time; 2.The text resolution is in high accuracy, and can print the minimum 0.5mm word height while the minimum line width is 75~90μm; 3. It has a high printing precision, and can automatically adjust the printing data according to the board's ups and downs, to obtain the best printing effect; 4.The printing data is personalized (variable), such as automatically changing the serial number of the serial number; 5. The printing process is environmentally friendly and non-polluting. This intelligent legend printer + automatic up-down material system has broken through the traditional legend printers and made board production more efficient. In order to provide better s...

FPC flexible circuit board occupies an important position in electronic products by virtue of its advantages, and the local FPC industry has also won an explosion. According to the statistics of relevant departments, the current annual output value of the global FPC industry is about 100 billion RMB, but the domestic enterprise market accounts for only about 10%. In the future, it is still necessary to continuously enhance the technical strength, expand the high-end market, and actively "go global" to enter the international market. Flexible circuit boards are adapting to the trend of miniaturization and mobilization of electronic products, and become indispensable components of consumer electronic products such as smart phones. As a global consumer electronics manufacturing country, flexible circuit boards have huge demand in China. Domestic flexible circuit board enterprises are in rapid development. Flexible electronic technology will drive the trillion-scale market. It is an opportunity for China to strive for the leap-forward development of the electronics industry. Become a national pillar industry. In recent years, flexible circuit boards have become a hot spot in the domestic capital market. Many companies have entered the strategic innovation layer and obtained the international leading FPC material technology. At present, domestic FPC production capacity is expanding rapidly. However, some experts pointed out that some core raw materials of FPC products are still in the hands of foreign-funded enterprises. Domestic FPC domestic manufacturers are less competitive in the international market. Sales are mainly concentrated in the domestic market, and the oversea market share is low. At present, domestic FPC companies seem to have a certain gap with foreign advanced manufacturers. However, with the rapid development of domestic mobile phones such as Huawei, OPPO and VIVO in the mobile phone market, domestic FPC has gradually realized its own technological innovation. Mastering the core technology, the gap with foreign countries is narrowing.