A growing number of today’s advanced portable electronic
devices require specialized connectors to make electrical contact between the printed
circuit board and intricate user interfaces such as LCD and touch screen
displays. These high-performance connectors are commonly tasked with carrying
both power and critical data signals between components that have close pad spacing
and board separation tolerances.
One such connector is Fujipoly’s Zebra® Gold 8000C Series
product. This interconnect device is constructed from a low durometer silicone
core that is covered with 166 parallel rows of flat, gold-plated wires per
inch. This unique construction allows the connector to accommodate PCBs with pad
center spacing down to .020”. In addition, each .001” x .003” gold-plated
copper element delivers a current carrying capacity of 250mA while exhibiting a
typical electrical resistance of only 25 milliohms per .025” contact pad.