Patent ID: 8654536

Claim:
An expandable circuit carrier having an unexpanded length, the expandable circuit carrier comprising an expandable substrate, a conductor structure formed from a structured conductive foil which is at least one of (i) embedded in the substrate and (ii) disposed on a surface of the substrate, the conductor structure having expandable strip conductors and comprising at least two terminal faces which are connected respectively to one of the strip conductors and also comprising at least one electronic component which has terminals which are connected to the terminal faces in an electrically conductive manner, the conductor structure having reinforcing structures which reinforce the circuit carrier in the vicinity of the terminal faces which are connected to the at least one electronic component without connecting the terminal faces to each other in an electrically conductive manner, wherein the reinforcing structures, the strip conductors and the terminal faces are formed from the same structured conductive foil, the expandable circuit carrier being expandable by at least 10 percent of said unexpanded length.