JAE's Narrow Pitch Connector Suits Wearables

摘要

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd. has introduced the WP56DK Series stacking type board-to-board flexible printed circuit (FPC) connectors that are ideal for use in wearable devices such as smartwatches and smart glasses. The WP56DK Series is an ultra-compact connector with power supply terminals, comes with width of 1.6mm and mated height of 0.6mm. It achieves a 0.3mm terminal pitch, which is the smallest in the industry. Recently, in high-performance compact wearable devices such as smart-watches, the printed circuit board (PCB) found inside of these devices is much smaller than those inside of smart-phones, which requires components used in these devices to also be much smaller and high density. While the overall device size is decreasing, the functions and features found in these devices continue to evolve and grow, further emphasizing the need for higher density components such as connectors. For smartphones, mounting space of connectors are becoming more high-density due to the increasing number of camera modules.