Abstract:
The present invention provides a printed circuit board installed in a lens barrel with an imaging optical system. In an installed state, the printed circuit board comprises: a ring-shaped portion disposed substantially perpendicular to the optical axis of the imaging optical system wherein an aperture is provided at a central portion of the ring-shaped portion so that an imaging light beam may pass through the aperture; and an extending board portion that extends outward from the ring-shaped portion wherein electrical components may be mounted on the surface of the extending board portion. After the ring-shaped portion and the extending board portion have been bent, the above-described flexible printed circuit board is inserted into the lens barrel in such a manner that the plane of the extending board portion on which the electrical components are mounted is parallel to the optical axis of the imaging optical system. This printed circuit board provides high efficiency electrical interconnections in the lens barrel.
Abstract:
An electric circuit for controlling a magnetic head is mounted on a flexible printed circuit (hereinafter referred to as "FPC"), and the FPC is arranged in a folded state within an enclosure. The FPC has an electronic circuit disposed on one side surface thereof, the one side surface being formed when the FPC is extended in a plane. Connectors are arranged on one end portion of the FPC for connecting to the magnetic head and external equipment. A support member is bonded to the surface of the FPC opposite to the surface mounting the electronic circuit, and by this supporting member the FPC is secured in a state folded in at least two within the housing of the magnetic disk apparatus.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus is provided for allowing computer functions formed on a flexible substrate to be adjacently stacked in layered relation. Each functional island will have an electrical connector on one end thereof. The electrical connector may include a plurality of conductive pads formed over solid vias that form a surface for electrically interconnecting adjacent flexible carriers of the functional islands. The solid vias and connection pads are also used to provide electrical communication between the reference plane, signal lines and chips that make up the functional islands, and chips contained on other functional islands, or on the planar. The plural functional islands are removably affixed to the planar by reflowing joining metallurgy on the connection pads of adjacent layers, or by using a compression type connector. The remaining portions of the functional islands are then flexibly placed within the computer system with varying amounts of space between the layers.
Abstract:
A contact sensor formed of a pair of thin flexible insulating sheets and having a plurality of elongate flexible leads, each connected to a single terminal and having an independent sensing pad positionable via the elongate flexible leads at separate selected locations between a pair of confronting surfaces to separately and independently sense the loads applied at the separate selected locations.
Abstract:
A connector system for coupling electrical cables with electrical apparatus such as integrated circuits and printed circuit boards. The present invention discloses a connector system for coupling electrical cables, preferably high density flexible circuits, with electrical apparatus. The connection system discloses a stiffener plate having a slot therein cut at a 45 degree angle from one corner of the stiffener plate to a second distal point of the stiffener plate. A pair of flexible circuits may be disposed in the stiffener plate and bent at 90 degree angles to the plate for coupling to a surface of the stiffener plate. The flexible circuits are of a design allowing for placement of electrical conductive pads along four edges of the stiffener plate, thus maximizing the density of electrical connections in the connection system.
Abstract:
An optical unit with a shake correction function includes a movable module and a fixed body. The movable module has a lens and is supported by the fixed body to be capable of moving in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens. The fixed body surrounds the movable module from an outer periphery side. The movable module includes a first substrate and a second substrate, with a thickness direction of either substrate being consistent with the direction along the optical axis. An image sensor is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate is electrically connected to the first substrate to overlap the first substrate on an image side, and is smaller in shape than the first substrate when viewed along the optical axis of the lens. A flexible printed circuit board is led out from an outer circumferential surface of the second substrate.
Abstract:
An electronic device may be provided with a conductive housing sidewall and a phased antenna array that conveys radio-frequency signals at frequencies greater than 10 GHz. Each antenna in the array may radiate through a respective aperture in the sidewall. The antenna module may include a folded flexible printed circuit having a first portion and a second portion that extends from an end of the first portion and that is folded with respect to the first portion. The antennas in the phased antenna array may have antenna resonating elements that are distributed between the first and second portions. Forming the antenna module from a folded flexible printed circuit in this way may serve to minimize the thickness of the antenna module, thereby allowing the antenna module to fit between a ledge of the sidewall and a rear housing wall without occupying excessive space within the device.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device (LCD) that may include a flexible printed circuit board of which electrodes arranged at one side and the other side are connected to each other through a contact hole, and a back light unit that uses a guide panel of which a lateral side end is opened.
Abstract:
The present invention consists of an implantable device with at least one package that houses electronics that sends and receives data or signals, and optionally power, from an external system through at least one coil attached to at least one package and processes the data, including recordings of neural activity, and delivers electrical pulses to neural tissue through at least one array of multiple electrodes that are attached to the at least one package. The device is adapted to electrocorticographic (ECoG) and local field potential (LFP) signals. A brain stimulator, preferably a deep brain stimulator, stimulates the brain in response to neural recordings in a closed feedback loop. The device is advantageous in providing neuromodulation therapies for neurological disorders such as chronic pain, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, or similar disorders. The invention and components thereof are intended to be installed in the head, or on or in the cranium or on the dura, or on or in the brain.