What is Rigid-Flex PCB?

The production and development of Flexible PCB (FPC) and Rigid Fr4 PCB gave birth to a new product of Flex and Rigid PCB board. Therefore, the rigid-flex PCB board is combination of the flexible printed circuit board and the rigid printed circuit board. After lamination and other processes, they are combined according to the relevant process requirements to form a circuit board with FPC flex characteristics and rigid PCB characteristics.

Rigid-Flex PCB High quality control

Because the rigid-flex PCB board is a combination of FPC and PCB, the production of rigid-flex pcb board should have both FPC production equipment and rigid FR4 PCB production equipment. First, the electronic engineer draws the circuit and shape of the flexible PCB board and Rigid PCB area according to the requirements, and then sends it to us. Our CAM engineer processes and review the relevant documents, and then arranges the FPC production line produce FPC and PCB production lines to produce PCB. After these two Flex PCB and Rigid PCB boards come out, in accordance with the planning requirements of the electronic engineer, the FPC and PCB are seamlessly laminated by a lamination machine, and then a series of detailed process as normal PCB production are completed which makes final rigid-flex PCB board. A very important point, because the rigid-flex PCB board is difficult and there are many details process, it is generally need all quality inspected strictly with AOI and final inspection before shipment, because the Rigid Flex PCB value is relatively high, only in this way can avoid the cost loss caused by the Rigid-Flex PCB quality issue between the us and customers which purchase Rigid-Flex PCB from us.

Advantages and disadvantages of Rigid-Flex PCB

Advantages: The rigid-flex PCB board has the characteristics of Flexible PCB (FPC) and FR4 rigid PCB at the same time. Therefore, it can be used in some products with special requirements. It has both a certain flexible area and a certain rigid area, which can save the internal space of the product. , It is of great help to reduce the volume of the finished product and improve the performance of the product.

Disadvantages: There are many production processes for the rigid-flex PCB board, so the production process is very difficult, and the yield rate is low, and the materials and human cost used are more than normal PCB production. Therefore, its price is relatively expensive and the production time is relatively long.

Application of Rigid-Flex PCB

The characteristics of the rigid-flex PCB board determines Rigid-Flex PCB application area to cover all the application areas of Flexible PCB (FPC) and PCB, such as:
mobile phone
Button board and side buttons, etc.
Computer and LCD screen
Motherboard and display screen, etc.
CD Walkman
Disk Drive
NOTEBOOK.
Hard disk drive (HDD, hard disk drive) suspension circuit and xe package board and other components.

Our Rigid-Flex PCB production Flow

1 Flexible PCB and Rigid PCB Material selection 2 CAM egnineering make Working Gerber
3 Production process and control of key parts
4 Graphic transfer of circuits
5 Positioning of flexible PCB and Rigid PCB
6 Laminating
7 Drilling
8 Dismear
9 Electroless copper plating, copper electroplating
10 Surface solder mask and solderability protective layer 11 Shape processing

Low cost and High quality Rigid-Flex PCB manufacturing

BETON electronics start Rigid-Flex PCB manufacturing over 12 years, which we have accumulate lots of detail Rigid-Flex PCB manufacturing experience and especially the difficult lamination process for Rigid-Flex PCB, now our Lamination process defect of Rigid-Flex PCB almost zero and all Rigid-Flex PCB are perfectly laminated one time, so our production cost is of course lower than other not high quality production Rigid-Flex PCB manufactuerers. And with high quality so our Rigid-Flex PCB can finished timely and then on time delivery, other suppliers maybe need input many times material and then the Rigid-Flex PCB can finished with many times scrapped.

So any Rigid-Flex PCB projects need production, of course BETON electronics is no doubt your best choice, we can produce Rigid-Flex PCB for your quality and lead time approval. which of course our quality, price and quick lead time and excellent service will satisfy you. Any need can read our website and contact us freely: https://pcbsfactory.com . and also can send email to us: [email protected] . WhatsApp: +8613392412348, Skype: [email protected] ,and we will contact you as soon as possible.