Snap dome life cycles

August 10th, 2010

Snap dome as the most important part of the switches, the life cycle is considered to be improtant too.

Our snap domes have the high quality and competitive price compare to Snaptron. Many customers use our snap dome replace of Snaptron metal domes. we have a very strict quality control system to ensure high quality.

Our snap domes with high life cycles, such as the cross snap domes, most itesm of the life can reach to one million times. Snap dome life cycle is determined by the material, mold design,and the experience of engineers and so on.

If you want to know more about the information of the snap dome(metal dome), please contact us anytime or see the below subjects:
1. snap dome specifications;
2. The function of dimple in metal domes;
3. Metal dome for pcb;
4. FAQs.

What a metal dome?

August 7th, 2010

What a metal dome? Metal dome (also named snap dome, tacticle domes) is the most improtant part of the switches. The raw material is the thickness from 0.05mm to 0.1mm stainless steel. The metal domes are mainly use in the membrane switches, printed circuit boards, flexible circuit boards.

Many different shapes and tactile forces of our metal domes are available in order to meet customers’ applications.  All of our metal domes with various choices in shapes,we have the C-series, F-series, T-series, and O-series metal domes, diameter from 3mm to 20mm, and the force from 80g to 5000g.

According to your needs choose different types of metal dome.

How many types of metal domes?

August 3rd, 2010

How many types of metal domes? Maybe some guys don’t know this well, so I hereby want to tell more details. Normally there are four types of metal domes as below:

1. Circle metal dome: most used in cellphone;
2. Four-leg metal domes: like four legs turn out to support;
3. Triangle metal domes: normally with two legs and with higher force;
4. Oblong metal domes: almost the same as circle shape.

Also, there are some custom metal domes, such as four-leg metal dome with two legs, center hole metal dome and so on. If you want to know more information, please contct us anytime.

The function of dimple in metal domes

July 31st, 2010

As you know, metal domes have dimple and without dimples two kinds, many customers don’t know why there is an dimple in the metal domes. OK, Let me explain the more details about the dimple domes features today:

First, It can increase the travel;
Secondly, it’s with better click feeling than without one;
Third, It has the better dust-prood effect;
Last, whether it’s with better conduction, there is no data to verify.

I think you are clear about the function of dimple in metal domes. In fact, which kind you will use, it’s depending on your design.

If you need more information, please feel free to contact us.