One caveat – any decent flex house should have recognized this as a ZIF and asked what you needed. Regards Steve



From: Jack Olson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

Sent: April-12-18 2:54 PM

To: Steven Kelly <[log in to unmask]>

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Subject: Re: [TN] flex fabrication



I didn't realize the flex cable was also dimensioned in the connector data sheet!



Yes, I believe we can just draw something similar as a "DETAIL" onto our fab dwg



Thanks, Steve.



On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Steven Kelly <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

Hi Jack,

If this was for a ZIF connector then you should have dimensioned the flex per the ZIF suppliers recommendation. If it was for some other application you should have still dimensioned it if it was important to the design . There are no defaults in the flex specifications. Regards  Steve Kelly



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Subject: [TN] flex fabrication



I'm designing a flexible circuit that is little more than a glorified ribbon cable, but nothing "off-the-shelf" will work. (So it is just a single layer of conductors on polyimide with a coverlayer, but no tooling holes or any other features).



Our first prototypes came back with the conductors off-center from the board outline. I can't find anything in IPC-6013 that addresses the relationship of the circuit pattern to the board outline, but it definitely has to be tighter than a typical rigid board.



Is the "pattern-to-board-outline" relationship covered anywhere else?

Do I have to add some kind of note or dimension to keep the pattern "centered" in the outline?