Electronic equipment and flexible printed circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9532491-B2
Application number	US-201314102228-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 10, 2013
Priority date	Dec 21, 2012
Publication date	Dec 27, 2016
Grant date	Dec 27, 2016

Abstract

A shield layer is selectively formed on a front surface of a base film having an insulating property to form a wiring layer on a rear surface of the base film, and a connector connection terminal and a mounting terminal are selectively provided on the wiring layer. A liquid crystal display device is configured so as to be housed in a set housing, in a state that a TFT array substrate and a control board are connected to each other via an FPC having the structure as described above. In this case, the shield layer is provided in such a manner of opposing to an inner surface of the housing, the shield layer maintains an insulating relationship with the drive circuit, and is electrically connected to a portion of the housing via the first ground wiring portion.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. Electronic equipment comprising:
a first substrate on which a drive circuit driving a drive target is mounted;
a second substrate on which a control circuit imparting a control signal for said drive circuit is mounted;
a flexible printed circuit having a first connecting portion connected to said first substrate, a second connecting portion connected to said second substrate, and internal wiring, the flexible printed circuit connecting between said first and said second substrates such that said drive circuit can be controlled by said control signal from said control circuit via the internal wiring; and
a housing that houses said first and said second substrates, and said flexible printed circuit therein, wherein
said second substrate further has a first ground wiring portion formed independently from said control circuit,
said flexible printed circuit has a shield layer having conductivity and being electrically independent from said internal wiring at a first main surface side, and a wiring layer provided with said internal wiring at a second main surface side,
said shield layer is provided in such a manner of opposing to an inner surface of said housing, said shield layer maintains an insulating relationship with said drive circuit, and is electrically connected to a portion of said housing via said first ground wiring portion, and
said shield layer is separated from said first substrate by an insulation distance greater than 0 to thereby prevent any electrical connection between said shield layer and said first substrate.

2. The electronic equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
said flexible printed circuit includes:
a base layer having an insulating property;
said shield layer formed on a first main surface of said base layer; and
said wiring layer formed on a second main surface of said base layer, and
said shield layer has a mesh-like wiring pattern in which a plurality of pieces of first shield wiring and a plurality of pieces of second shield wiring cross over each other.

3. The electronic equipment according to claim 2 , wherein
said internal wiring has a plurality of wiring formed in straight lines along a wiring direction in an overlap region in plan view with said mesh-like circuit pattern, and,
said plurality of wiring is provided so as to cross over in plan view only intersection points of a mesh formed by said mesh-like wiring pattern in said shield layer, or so as to cross over in plan view only central points which are between adjacent intersection points of a mesh formed by said mesh-like wiring pattern, and are on said first shield wiring or on said second wiring.

4. The electronic equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
said control circuit has a second ground wiring portion for grounding,
said second substrate has a second ground fixing portion fixable to a portion of said housing, and
said second ground wiring portion has a first pad portion, and said second ground fixing portion has a second pad portion, so that at least one of elements of an ESD absorption element, a resistor, and a capacitor can be inserted between said first and said second pad portions.

5. The electronic equipment according to claim 4 , wherein
said first ground wiring portion has a third pad portion, and said second ground wiring portion has a fourth pad portion, so that the at least one of elements of the ESD absorption element, the resistor, and the capacitor can be inserted between said third and said fourth pad portions.

6. The electronic equipment according to claim 1 , wherein
said drive target serves as a liquid crystal portion, and
said drive circuit serves as a liquid crystal drive circuit driving said liquid crystal portion to execute a display operation.

7. The electronic equipment according to claim 1 , wherein,
said drive target serves as a sensor portion, and
said drive circuit serves as a sense drive circuit achieving a sense function to detect a state of said sensor portion.

8. Flexible printed circuit comprising:
a base layer having insulating property;
a shield layer formed on a first main surface of said base layer; and
a wiring layer formed on a second main surface of said base layer and having internal wiring, wherein
said shield layer has a mesh-like wiring pattern in which a plurality of pieces of first shield wiring and a plurality of pieces of second shield wiring cross over each other, and
said shield layer is separated from an end portion of a side of a mounting terminal of said wiring layer by an insulation distance greater than 0 to thereby prevent any electrical connection between said shield layer and said mounting terminal.

9. The flexible printed circuit according to claim 8 , wherein
said internal wiring has a plurality of wiring formed in straight lines along a wiring direction in an overlap region in plan view with said mesh-like wiring pattern, said plurality of wiring is provided so as to cross over in plan view only the intersection points of the mesh formed by said mesh-like wiring pattern, or so as to cross over in plan view only the central points which are between the adjacent intersection points of the mesh formed by said mesh-like wiring pattern, and are on said first shield wiring or on said second shield wiring.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Hashido Ryuichi

Classifications

• H05K3/361

  Assembling flexible printed circuits with other printed circuits · CPC title

• H05K1/0259 Primary

  Electrostatic discharge [ESD] protection · CPC title

• H05K1/0224

  Patterned shielding planes, ground planes or power planes (H05K1/0253 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H05K9/0054 Primary

  specially adapted for display applications · CPC title

• G02F1/13452

  Conductors connecting driver circuitry and terminals of panels · CPC title