CONNECTING FLEXIBLE CIRCUITRY BY STITCHING

摘要

A means is described of connecting multiple flexible printed circuit (FPC) tags. The means is suitable where electrical circuitry (14, 16) has been printed or otherwise applied to one side of flexible substrates (30, 32) and where the circuitry of two such substrates is required to be brought into electrical continuity. In this method, a sewing, stitching or embroidery machine is used to hold juxtaposed conductive surfaces in electrical continuity by tension. In a variation of the means, conductive thread, wire or other material is used to create an electrically-conducting via between the relevant conductive surfaces of two or more such FPC tags.