Flex Ltd.

Robert Pennings

Anwar Mohammed

Murad Kurwa

Weifeng Liu

Zhen Feng

William L Uy

Jie Lian

Christian Biederman

A bend test device and bend test method enable a mandrel bend test to be automatically performed. The bend test device includes a controlled motor, a drive shaft coupled to the motor, a nose piece coupled to the drive shaft, and a nose clamp for securing a device under test (DUT) to the nose piece. A control system connected to the bend test device uses a programmed control algorithm to control the bend test device. The motor is connected to the drive shaft and rotates the drive shaft in response to control signaling provided by the control system. The rotating drive shaft in turn rotates the nose piece. Rotation of the nose piece bends the mounted DUT. The motor rotates the drive shaft as defined by the software parameters and the DUT is bent back and forth across a defined radius edge.

Automated mandrel bend test

A conductive fabric includes a fabric with one or more electrically conductive wire braids woven into the fabric. The one or more wire braids are woven into the fabric such that one or more portions of each wire braid are exposed at one or more surfaces of the fabric, the exposed portions of the wire braid forming connection pads. Each connection pad provides an electrical connection point for attachment to a complementary electrical connection point on an electronic component, such as a bond pad, solder bump, or connection lead. A single wire braid can be used to electrically interconnect multiple electronic components. Multiple wire braids can be arranged, with appropriate spacing and alignment of exposed portions, to electrically interconnect multiple electronic components with multiple electrical interconnects between one or more electronic components. Each electrically conductive wire braid includes a plurality of individual electrically conductive wires braided together.

Fabric with woven wire braid

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Robert Pennings