What is a Rigid Flex PCB?
Rigid-Flex printed circuit boards are designed to provide solutions, and act as replacements for rigid PCBs. As the name suggests, these circuit boards are a hybrid of flex and rigid circuits. The advantage of this type is that they exhibit the benefits of both rigid as well as flexible circuit boards.
| YMS Rigid Flex PCB manufacturing capabilities overview | ||
| Feature | capabilities | |
| Layer Count | 2-20L | |
| Rigid-Flex Thickness | 0.3mm-5.0mm | |
| PCB thickness in flex section | 0.08-0.8mm | |
| copper Thickness | 1/4OZ-10OZ | |
| Minimum line Width and Space | 0.05mm/0.05mm(2mil/2mil) | |
| Stiffeners | Stainless steel,PI, FR4 ,Aluminum etc. | |
| Material | Polyimide Flex+FR4,RA copper, HTE copper, polyimide, adhesive,Bondply | |
| Min mechanical Drilled Size | 0.15mm(6mil) | |
| Min laser Holes Size: | 0.075mm(3mil) | |
| Surface Finish | Suitable Microwave/RF PCB urface finishes: Electroless Nickel, Immersion Gold, ENEPIG, Lead free HASL,Immersion Silver.etc. | |
| Solder Mask | Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Black, Purple, Matte Black, Matte green.etc. | |
| Covrelay (Flex Part) | Yellow Coverlay, WhiteCoverlay,Black Coverlay | |
| Common-Used FPC Stiffener Thickness | ||
| Stiffener Material | Usual Thickness | Unusual Thickness |
| FR-4 | 0.2mm(8mil) | 0.1mm(4mil) |
| 0.3mm(12mil) | 0.9mm(35mil) | |
| 0.4mm(16mil) | 1.1mm(43mil) | |
| 0.5mm(20mil) | 1.3mm(51mil) | |
| 0.6mm(24mil) | 1.4mm(55mil) | |
| 0.7mm(28mil) | 1.6mm(63mil) | |
| 0.8mm(32mil) | ||
| 1.0mm(39mil) | ||
| 1.2mm(47mil) | ||
| 1.5mm(59mil) | ||
| Polyimide (PI) | 0.1mm(4mil), | 0.075mm(3mil) |
| 0.15mm(6mil), | 0.125mm(5mil) | |
| 0.2mm(8mil), | 0.175mm(7mil) | |
| 0.25mm(10mil) | 0.225mm(9mil) | |
| 0.275mm(11mil) | ||
| Stainless Steel | 0.1mm(4mil) | 0.45mm(18mil) |
| 0.15mm(6mil) | ||
| 0.2mm(8mil) | ||
| 0.25mm(10mil) | ||
| 0.3mm(12mil) | ||
| 0.35mm(mil) | ||
| 0.4mm(16mil) | ||
| 0.5mm(20mil) | ||
| 1.5mm(59mil) | ||