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MEMTRON INPUT COMPONENTS

Flex Circuits Make your electronic intercon-nection both simpler and more reliable with tight tolerance, fine-line circuits.

OVERVIEW Flex circuits offer OEM customersseveral options because they have:

1) trace routing, current carrying

capabilities, and SMT componentpopulating options of a FR4 printedcircuit board, 2)

the

flexibility ofa membrane switch.Flex circuits can be developed usingpolyester or polyimide (Kapton) as the base material, depending onyour interface requirements. Fromsimple single layer copper flex on polyester to complex double-sidedon polyimide, Memtron Input Com- ponents rapidly provides customers with application-specific solutions.Looking for a flex circuit that is bothridged and flexible? Rigid-Flex circuits can be produced to reduce interconnects and to incorporate tails directly into the circuit.

TechnologyDescription Polyester Base Single-Sided Flex Circuits offer tight tracerouting capabilities, as well as electrical resistance valueslower than traditional membrane switches since they utilize copper conductors much like a printed circuit board. Polyimide Base Single-Sided Flex Circuits offer tight tracerouting capabilities, lower electrical resistance, and the component mounting attributes of a rigid printed circuit board, as well as the flexibility of a membrane switch. Polyimide Base Double-Sided Flex Circuits offer thecomplex trace routing capability and component mounting functionality of a double-sided rigid printed circuit board, along with the flexibility of a membrane switch. Flex Circuit Versatility ranges from simple custom intercon-nects to the complex current carrying element of the OEM input device, due to their trace routing capabilities and malleable nature.