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Metal dome or snap dome or tactile dome is the same product?

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Do you know metal dome? Why we also can call snap dome, tactile dome? Do they are the same products?

Metal domes are widly used for the membrane keypad and swithces. The material of the metal dome is the stainless steel, and it looks like a dome, so we call metal dome. When we press the metal dome, it has crackling sound, so we also call snap dome. Tactile dome is the same meaning.

CMD Manufacture is the leading manufacturer of the metal dome, snap dome, and tactile dome in China, if you need more information, please do feel free to contact us.

What’s the snap dome force, Re-force and click ratio?

Friday, August 5th, 2011

What’s the snap dome force, Re-force and click ratio? Please see below for details.

Snap dome force is that the amount of the force when you press down the snap dome to contact the pcb. It should be stability of the force in order to ensure quality of the snap dome.

Re-force is the pressure let the snap dome return back to top.

Click ratio=(Force-Re-force)/Force*100%, the click ratio is narmal between 35%-75%

If you want to know more details about snap dome, please contact us for more information.

                        CMD Manufacture specialize in metal domes, snap domes, metal dome array, dome sheet, poly dome!!!

Snap dome diameter and thickness of material

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Maybe some customers want to know if there is relation between Snap dome diameter and thickness of material.

Snap dome, also named metal dome, we have circle shape, four-leg shape, triangle shape, and oblong shape. The diameter from3mm to 20mm. You can see below rough thickness of material for different diameter:

1. 3mm-5mm diameter snap dome, normal use the 0.04mm-0.06mm thickness of stainless steel material;
2. 6mm-8mm diameter snap dome, normal use the 0.06mm-0.08mm thickness of stainless steel material;
3. 9mm-12mm diameter snap dome, normal use the 0.08mm-0.10mm thickness of stainless steel material;
4. 16-20mm diameter snap dome, normal use the 0.10mm-0.12mm thickness of stainless steel material;

The bigger diameter snap dome, the thickner material. The material also determine the quality of snap dome. Material of choice was out of our practical production.

Ok, if you need further information, please contact us.

Relative Posts:

1. The specifications of metal dome;
2. Snap Dome Manufacturer and Supplier in china;
3. material of metal dome(snap dome);
4. LGF metal dome array specifications.

Snap Dome Manufacturer and Supplier in China

Monday, November 20th, 2006

We are the leading snap domes manufacturer and supplier in China for membrane and other switches for many years. Snap domes also named the metal domes, tactile domes, which are widely used in the membrane keypad, and as a switch parts are also in a number of other electronic products, medical equipemts, etc. Please see below for more details informations:

1. Many difference shapes items, including circle, cross, triangle, oblong snap domes.

 2. Actuation Force: From 80g to 5000g are available.

3. High quality and very competitive price

4. More than 10 years in this industry.

 As a leading manufacturer of snap domes in China, we have a wide kinds of snap domes as that if you need the samples or have inquiry, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

 If you need more information, you can contact our website www.china-metaldome.com or see the below relative subjects:

1. Specifications of metal dome

2. Specifications of dome array

3. FAQs