Actuator assembly
An actuator assembly includes a support structure which defines a primary axis and a moving component 40 which moves relative to the support structure. A flexible printed circuit (FPC) 50 is electrically connected at one end to the moving component and at the other end to the support structure. The...
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Zusammenfassung: | An actuator assembly includes a support structure which defines a primary axis and a moving component 40 which moves relative to the support structure. A flexible printed circuit (FPC) 50 is electrically connected at one end to the moving component and at the other end to the support structure. The FPC includes two planar portions 60a,60b with a bend 61 between them which all lie in the same plane so that the FPC allows the moving component to have movement along two orthogonal axes parallel to that plane. The planar portions and moving component may overlap along the primary axis. Another actuator assembly has a FPC 50a, 50b along a side of the moving component and is folded back on itself so that the FPC includes two portions 53a,54a / 53b,54b with a bend 55a / 55b between. The two portions extend in directions with components in opposite directions, so that the FPC moves along two orthogonal axes. Another actuator assembly has a FPC along one side of the moving component and which includes a fold line part way along its side. Therefore, when the moving component moves relative to the support structure the FPC folds along the fold line. |
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