Flex PCB Now Available at JLCPCB From Special Offer of $15

Good news are coming one after another! Right now at JLCPCB, there is a new base material for our beloved customers to choose from. FPC (flexible printed circuit), with high reliability and excellent mechanical flexibility, is now available at JLCPCB, waiting for solving engineers' more project needs.

JLCPCB is now offering a special price for quality flex PCBs starting at $15. Also, standard PCBA is supported for your flexible PCB projects. You can upload the Gerber file here for an instant quote. Register now to get up to $54 new user coupons.

Flex PCB, what is that？

Flex PCB, also known as FPC, or flexible PCB, is made by creating copper traces on a polyester or polyimide film. Flex PCBs are a reliable and mechanically flexible type of printed circuit board, widely used in electronic products in the consumer, communication, medical, automotive, aviation, and military industries.

Benefits of Flex PCBs

1. Small and lightweight: Suitable for devices requiring high-density assembly, small form factor, and high reliability.

2. High flexibility: Can be arbitrarily bent and moved; simplifies assembly of interconnects by replacing regular cables, especially on moving parts.

Flex PCB with PI Stiffener：

Flex PCB with Stainless Steel Stiffener+FR4 Stiffener+3M Tape Stiffener：

Structure of Flex PCBs

1. Single-sided: Conductor on one side of the Flex PCB only

2. Double-sided: Conductor on both sides of the Flex PCB, connected with vias

3. Multi-layered: Unlike rigid PCBs which usually have even layer counts only, Flex PCBs can have an odd number of layers. Flex PCBs with three or more layers allow more complex wiring.

JLCPCB Flex PCB Manufacturing Capabilities

JLCPCB Flex PCB Ordering Advice

1. If you choose adhesiveless electro-deposited copper as the base conductor with ENIG surface finish. Silkscreen text which overlaps ENIG pads will be made as hollow cut-outs in the pad.
2. Exposed connector pads should be ≥ 0.2 mm from the FPC’s edge. Areas closer than this limit will be removed.
3. Stiffener and EMI shield are optional additions. These should be described by an individual Gerber layer or a separate CAD drawing, annotated with the material and thickness required in the case of stiffeners. The following images show the stiffener types available:

JLCPCB regards driving tech innovation as the responsibility and keeps striving to provide customers with a wider selection of PCB manufacturing, making hardware development and tech innovation easier to achieve than ever. Due to the large-scale effect of production, JLCPCB is able to give back to all customers at the most favorable price, so that money will no longer be an obstacle to innovation. Get quality FPCs on the JLCPCB instant quoting page!

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