Archive for August, 2010

14mm four-leg metal dome

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Before, some of the customers asked 14mm four-leg metal dome(cross metal dome), because of the required quantity isn’t too large, so our company haven’t developed this mold, but with increased customers demand and product maturity, we can now provide 14mm four-leg metal dome.

Now available with 14mm four-leg metal dome, 400g force, dimple or without dimple, stainless steel and nickel materials. You can contact us for product drawings.
14mm Four-leg Metal Dome
CMD Manufacture is specializing in making metal dome, snap dome and dome array, if you have any needs, we will provide you with good solutions.

How do I apply the snap domes to PCB, FPC or membrane switches?

Friday, August 13th, 2010

Our snap domes are applied to PCB, membrane, or flex circuit by means of pressure-sensitive adhesive tape. Several standard material options are available, as well as custom materials. Such as the domestic adhesive tap, 3M adhesive tap.

We name this product is metal dome array, peel off the support paper to stick on your PCB, FPC or membrane switches. See our dome arrays for more information or see the the assembling instruction of dome array.

Snap dome life cycles

Tuesday, 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?

Saturday, 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.