Plasma display panel flexible circuit connection

摘要

This is a system for connecting flexible electrical connectors having raised conductors above an insulating substrate to a plasma display panel having a glass substrate with the electrical conductors deposited in the bottom surface of conductor pathways etched in a glass substrate. The raised conductors on the connectors mate with the depressed conductors in the panel substrate. The spacing of the conductors in the connector may be varied to facilitate an exact mating with the conductors in the panel substrate. A clip device in combination with a flexible insulating force spreading member applies a uniform continuous pressure to the connector cable and glass substrate combination to maintain connection. This system may be used to facilitate the direct attachment of large scale integrated circuit chip carriers having conductor members on a surface thereof directly to conductors in a plasma display panel substrate.