An electronic control unit comprises at least one controller and at least one memory device, wherein the controller comprises at least one electronic component mounted on a main circuit board. An embedded circuit board is formed in one piece with the main circuit board, and a predetermined separation line is provided for separating the embedded circuit board from the main circuit board.

The invention relates to a marking device (02) for marking circuit boards (04) tested by means of a test device (01, 08), wherein the marking device (02) can be fixed to the test device (01, 08) in a defined target position, and wherein the marking device (02) has a marking member (06) which can engage the surface (05) of a circuit board (04), and wherein the marking member (06) can be driven by a drive mechanism (16) in order to apply a marking to the surface (05) of the circuit board (04) by an operating movement of the marking member (06) depending on the test result. The marking device (02) includes a fixation module (10) and a quick change module (11), wherein the marking device (02) can be fixed to the test device (01, 08) in the defined target position by means of the fixation module (10), and wherein the quick change module (11) includes the marking member (06) and the drive mechanism (16), and wherein the quick change module (11) can be replaced without removing the fixation module (10).

A component carrier related body which includes a stack with a plurality of electrically conductive and/or electrically insulating layer structures, and at least two information carrying structures formed vertically displaced on at least two different of the layer structures, wherein at least two of the at least two information carrying structures are laterally displaced in a plan view on the stack.

A vertical circuit board printer includes a multi-layer conveyor, a printer assembly, and a control system. The multi-layer conveyor includes a number of front conveyors and one rear conveyor. Each upper front conveyor is coupled to a lower front conveyor by a circuit board-lowering mechanism to transport a number of circuit boards in sequence from the number of front conveyors to the rear conveyor. The printer assembly includes a number of printers arranged in sequence above the number of front conveyors. The control system controls operation of the multi-layer conveyor and controls operation of the printing assembly through a software system.

A display device includes: a display panel including panel terminals; and a wiring substrate including first substrate terminals coupled to the panel terminals. The panel terminals include panel terminals arranged in a first region and panel terminals arranged in second regions sandwiching the first region. The first substrate terminals include first substrate terminals arranged in a third region and first substrate terminals arranged in fourth regions sandwiching the third region. A gap between panel terminals is substantially constant in the first and second regions. A first width of the panel terminals in the first region is different from a second width of the panel terminals in the second regions. A width of the first substrate terminals is substantially constant in the third and fourth regions. A first gap between first substrate terminals in the third region is different from a second gap between first substrate terminals in the fourth regions.

A flexible circuit (FC) and a method of forming the FC each include providing a first dielectric layer, applying a plurality of conductive circuit traces that are substantially parallel to each other to the first dielectric layer, providing a second dielectric layer atop the first dielectric layer and the plurality of conductive circuit traces to form a third dielectric layer having the plurality of conductive traces disposed therein and being configured to support and insulate the plurality of conductive traces, and forming a plurality of channels extending at least partially through a thickness of the third dielectric layer, wherein the plurality of channels are arranged between the plurality of conductive circuit traces and substantially parallel thereto and are configured to provide increased flexibility of the FC.

Flexible circuits are described including markings that indicate connections between their flat-wire conductors and specific circuits of a vehicle electrical system. Wire conductors within the flexible circuit share connections with different circuits of the vehicle electrical system. To indicate a connection between a wire conductor and a vehicle circuit, the flexible circuit includes one or more human or machine-readable marks specifically indicating the connection, in some cases, at a position where the connection is to be made. The marks can include etchings or printings on the wire conductors or printings on or otherwise visible from the insulating body that protects the wire conductors.

Methods and devices that identify a silkscreen data file associated with a physical printed circuit board and use an image of the physical printed circuit board to display a virtual silkscreen over the image of the physical printed circuit board.

A flat harness includes a plurality of flat circuit bodies that are stacked to each other. A mark is provided on a side surface of each of the plurality of flat circuit bodies. A position of the mark in a length direction of the flat circuit body is provided so as to be different for each type of the flat circuit body.

The invention relates to a method for producing a labeled printed circuit board, as well as a labeled electric printed circuit board. In order to provide a method for producing a labeled printed circuit board that is particularly fast and energy-conserving and does not require any systems with high procurement and operating costs, initially a substrate with conductor tracks is supplied which is then coated with a functional lacquer layer on at least one surface, wherein a labeling of the substrate in different color shades of the functional lacquer layer is also carried out.