{"id":5400,"date":"2022-09-01T14:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clooms.com\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2023-01-16T06:22:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T06:22:09","slug":"flexible-flat-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clooms.com\/flexible-flat-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexible Flat Cables: The Best Alternative to Round Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Modern applications like robotics, automated medical diagnostic equipment, or axis-control manufacturing require movement. To ensure flexibility in these applications, engineers used round cables<\/a>. However, with repeated bending, conductors in round cables may get kinked. As a result, it leads to circuit failure. Thus, engineers are picking up something that can provide them with better performance and reliability. Now, flexible flat cables<\/strong> are fulfilling the demanding requirements of these modern applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n Flexible flat cables or FFCs are the cables that are both flexible and flat, having solid conductors which are flat. It comes in the category of flexible electronics; however, FFC means fragile cables used in highly dense electronic items such as laptops and cell phones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can consider FFC as the miniature formation of ribbon cables<\/a> which are also flexible and flat. The FFC has a flexible and flat plastic base with numerous flat metal conductors bonded firmly to the plastic base. Generally, manufacturers treat one end of the cable with the help of a stiffener so that insertion becomes easier and helps strain relief. The cable\u2019s end becomes slightly thick due to the stiffener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can use these cables as a replacement for round cables. The flexible flat cables allow easy management of cables, particularly in high-flex applications. Further, FFC cables use less space, offer better RFI<\/a> and EMI<\/a> suppression, and eliminate wire coupling issues. On the other hand, in round cables, different materials wrap the conducting wires, making the cable heavy and stiff. On the contrary, conducting wires of FFC do not have any wrapping, and thus, the cable is lightweight and flexible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Generally speaking, You can find an FFC cable in plotters, copiers, printed connections, scanners, DVD players, signal transmission, and plate board connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTable of Contents<\/h2>\n
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