Connector Industries
The Market
Our customers in the consumer electronics connector market are faced with a host of challenges. Connector designers and material limitations are constantly being challenged by:
- Fatigue resistance
- Harsh operating environments
- High operating frequencies
- Mechanical shock
- Miniaturization
- Convergence of functions
Materion Corporation understands these challenges and provides reliable products for consumer electronics, and computer and telecommunications applications. With the help of our products, we can enable designers to meet the industry demands of smaller, faster, less costly and more reliable electronic communication and data transfer.
The Solution
Our copper beryllium strip and rod alloys, with their unmatched combination of high strength, high conductivity, excellent stress relaxation resistance and formability provide a cost-effective, reliable solution for customers in the connector industries.
These products allow designers to optimize contact designs and maximize the reliability of the interconnect, while minimizing the overall amount of material used, thus reducing overall component cost without sacrificing performance. Because of our extensive knowledge in the design, tooling and fabrication of copper beryllium, there is a significant improvement in the time to market and time to volume of new products. The end user also benefits with higher MTBF (mean time between failures), lower service costs and greater life cycle reliability.
Our materials can be found in many Consumer Electronics connector applications including:
- Backplane
- Board to board
- Coaxial
- Compression
- Display and small form factor RF connectors
- Input/output
- Memory
- Mezzanine
- Miniature board-to-board
- Power
- SIM card
They are also found in products such as processor sockets, Ethernet interfaces, antenna contacts, audio jacks, antenna wire, EMI Shielding and ground clips, and much more. For stamped, formed connectors and contacts, strip products are typically used, while for machined contacts, rod and wire products are appropriate.
Why Materion Corporation?
Compared to lower performance phosphor bronze and copper nickel silicon alloys, our copper beryllium alloys demonstrate superior reliability due to the following properties:
- Elevated temperature durability that promotes reliable and stable performance
- Excellent machining and forming characteristics that enable ease of fabrication
- High electrical and thermal conductivity that allow for enhanced thermal management
- High yield strength that provides excellent spring characteristics and the ability to withstand high stress loading without failure
Compared to other copper alloys, copper beryllium offer combinations of properties that come together to provide the following advantages:
- Greater ductility at high strengths, creating better forming characteristics.
- Higher conductivity, minimizing bulk resistance and connector temperature rise. Lower elastic modulus compared to material like stainless steel, allowing a wider contact deflection range.
- Higher yield strength, maximizing allowable beam deflections within the elastic range, allowing for reduced beam lengths and subsequently, miniaturization.
- Superior stress relaxation resistance at elevated temperatures for the maintenance of stable contact force over time.
Our alloys are readily available worldwide from both company-owned service centers and independent distributor partners.
Contact Materion Corporation Today
If equipment malfunctions and service interruptions cannot be tolerated, then contact Materion Corporation to find your solution for connector and interconnect needs.
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