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What is the metal snap dome?

Wednesday, July 9th, 2014

What is the metal snap dome? Metal snap dome(also name metal dome, snap dome), which is made ??of stainless steel. the thickness is between 0.05mm to 0.20mm. The metal dome is an important part of the switch. metal snap dome is mainly used in membrane switch, key switches, PCB board, FPC board, medical devices and other products.

Metal snap dome works theory is: When they placed the switch position, and you press down to contact with PAD of PCB circuit board, so that the circuits is conducted.

Metal snap dome has divided into four items: round snap dome, four-leg snap dome, triangle snap dome, oblong snap dome. Diameters from 3mm to 20mm, and the range of the force from 100g to 600g.

According to your need to choose different types of metal snap dome.

The travel of metal snap dome

Monday, December 16th, 2013

When you develop and design your products, you also should know the travel of the metal snap dome. So how do you measure the metal snap dome travel ? Please have a look at the following picture:

From here we can see that: the total height of metal snap dome is 0.52mm, material thickness is 0.10mm, so how about the travel? Here’s a formula:
Stroke = total height – material thickness, then the snap dome travel is 0.52-0.10=0.42mm.

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