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What’s a snap dome?

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

Snap dome is also called metal dome, is made by the stainless steel, and used for the membrane switches.

The principle of snap dome works is that when they are placed on the printed circuit board by means of pressure-sensitive adhesive tape, in their relaxed state, the metal domes rest on the outer rim of the primary pathway. When pushed, the domes collapse and make contact with the secondary pathway, thereby closing the circuit.

Many different shapes and forces of our snap domes are available. We mainly have the four kinds shape: round; four-leg( cross); triangle and oblong, the diameter from 3mm to 20mm, and the force from 80g to 5000g. Platings of the metal domes, such as Nickel plating, silver plating & gold plating are also available.

if you need the snap dome, please contact with us in anytime.

How to apply triangle snap domes to PCB board?

Wednesday, December 11th, 2019

Generally speaking, the triangle snap dome with legs is divided into three specifications: short legs 0.8mm, middle legs 1.5mm, long legs 3.0mm. Choose the suitable legs based on the thickness of your PCB board.

  1. Insert the legs into the hole of the circuit board first. Generally, the legs length should be longer than the thickness of the circuit board.
  2. Bend the legs on the back of the circuit board to fix it, or paste a little transparent glue on it.
  3. The triangle snap dome with legs is generally suitable for toys, or high force products.

If you need to know more about snap domes, please feel free to contact us.

The parameters of LGF

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

LGF is known as light guide film, it is to add a layer of LGF in the normal double-layer structure dome array or EMI structure to the light distribution effect good.

The parameters and advantages of LGF has the following several items:

1, The material has PC, PU two kinds; light guide effect of two kinds of material are the same; PU material more soft, feel better. While the PC material advantage in price.

2, Thickness: 0.125mm and 0.1mmm two, but the most and often use thinner 0.10mm.

3, The light effect is good, uniform brightness, high light intensity.

4, The quality is light, soft, thin thickness.

5, Saving LED lamps, power consumption saving, cost saving.

6, The structure is simple, do not affect the product overall design (not affect snap dome click) , good click feeling.

Incoming inspection of snap domes

Friday, January 3rd, 2014

How to inspect the incoming of snap domes?, what items need to inspect? I think it’s not all IQC guys know these, today we will have a details:

1, Appearance: do have dirt, grease, stains on top;
2, Burr: A4 paper can be tested along side;
3, Force: test by force machine;
4, The contact resistance test;
5, life cycles: this is very important, we test the snap domes by life tester.

Incoming inspection of metal snap domes is very improtant for IQC dept., so that we can ensure that all end-products with high quality. Do you have a clear to know these items? if you need to know more details, please leave your message.

How to deal with snap domes dirty?

Monday, November 11th, 2013

Sometimes  we may receive the goods with dirty. Where do the dirty comes into the snap domes? Then how should we deal with snap domes dirty?

Snap domes must be kept clean, as it can affect the contact. We must keep no stains, grease, burrs, crushing, stamping, scratched and so on on the surface.Dirty comes from the mold and it doesn’t clean well. In the final step, we clean the snap domes by ultrasonic, and then drying, quality testing,
visual inspection, and then packaging and storage.

We will ensure each snap dome (metal dome) is made by CMD which without the dirty, with the high quality. If the snap domes have the dirty, please send back to us, we will replace for it for you.

Our blog of snap domes & metal dome array

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013

Welcome to CMD Manufcture office blog, where you can see more details of snap domes, metal domes, metal dome array. I think here you should be able to find all the questions you want, but if not, then please contact us, we will give you a satisfied answer.

CMD Manufcture Co., Ltd. is a professional manufacturer in this industry, we will be your best parter.