Innovation and maximum functional performance, coupled with good styling and giving customers the features they desire in competitively priced packages, are key elements for current and future automotive instrumentation applications.
Flexible circuitry is not a new offering for these applications. There has been substantial use of flexible circuits for automotive instrument cluster lighting and interconnections for more than 20 years.
The potential for advantageous use of flexible circuitry and related flexible interconnection systems in instrumentation and multiple other automotive applications is still relatively untapped, however.
The utilization of flex offers reliability, design freedom, weight reduction, assembly savings and numerous other features and advantages to these demanding applications.