The difference between FFC flat cable and FPC flat cable

Flat cable, also known as FPC flexible circuit board. It is used for data transmission of moving parts and moving areas according to the layout rules, line sequence, line color, line number, etc. specified in the industry specifications. The layout is mainly divided into two types: round head at both ends (R-FFC for short, for direct welding) and flat head at both ends (FFC for short, for plug in socket).



Characteristics of flat cable



1. The flat wire is small in size and light in weight. The original design of the flat wire board is to replace the larger harness wire.



2. The flat cable can be moved, bent and twisted without damaging the wire, and can comply with different shapes and special packaging dimensions.



3. The flat cable has excellent electrical properties, dielectric properties and heat resistance.



4. The flat wire has higher assembly reliability and quality. The flat cable reduces the hardware required for internal connection, such as solder joints, trunk lines, backplane lines and cables commonly used in traditional electronic packaging, so that the flat cable can provide higher assembly reliability and quality.



What is FFC flat cable? FFC flat cable is also called flexible flat cable. The number and spacing of wires can be arbitrarily selected to make wiring more convenient, greatly reduce the volume of electronic products, reduce production costs, and improve production efficiency.



What is FPC flat cable? FPC flat cable is a connection line group that can be bent to a certain extent. FPC can be divided into many types according to functions, such as FPC antenna, FPC touch screen, FPC capacitance screen, etc.



The difference between FFC and FPC is that FPC is a flexible printed circuit. In terms of their manufacturing, the way they form the circuit is different:



1. FPC uses chemical etching to process FCCL (flexible copper clad foil) to obtain flexible circuit boards with different single-sided, double-sided and multi-layer structures.



2. FFC uses two layers of insulating foil film with flat copper foil sandwiched between them. The finished product is simple and thick.



In terms of price, natural FFC cable is much cheaper. Considering the production cost, more enterprises prefer to use the relevant design of FFC cable.