Onanon Compliant Pins Allow Solderless Mating of PCBs to Connectors
Completely Lead-Free and Highly Cost-Effective Compliant Pin Technology
MILPITAS, Calif. – August 21, 2007 – Onanon Inc., a leader in the highly automated design and manufacture of electronic connectors for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), announced immediate availability of its newly renovated line of smooth sliding, fast holding press-fit compliant pin connectors.
Compliant pin technology has stood the test of time by providing press-fit connections that withstands thermal shock, vibration and humidity. Onanon has improved this 20-year old technology so that their compliant pins slide smoothly into plated thru-holes, a major breakthrough in this tried and tested green technology that makes it even more cost-effective and environmentally friendly.
The cost-effectiveness of these rugged pins allows them to be used now with assurance in the harshest environments and in the most delicate devices. They are solderless, and easily meet RoHS standards. Onanon compliant pin connectors can be selected from a quick order catalog or custom made.
Smooth Sliding, Fast Holding Compliant Pin Connector
Onanon’s innovations in compliant pin technology are made possible by their highly automated close tolerance milling manufacture. “In the prior technology, an oval ’eye of the needle’ hole was punched into a pin. When this pin inserted into a plated thru-hole, the ’eye of the needle’ compressed with a spring force that held the pin snug,” said Dennis Johnson, CEO of Onanon. “Now, by precisely engineering the curvature of the hole and pin, we can guarantee that the contact force is more than sufficient to maintain contact in the harshest environments, but not so great as to produce excessive insertion force.”
Limiting the insertion force allows easy insertion of connectors with a large number of pins. It also eliminates particulate debris from being scraped from the plated thru-hole and increases the number of reinsertion cycles to over a thousand.
Compliant Pins Eliminate Many PCB Manufacturing Issues
The rapid increase in chip performance, density, mixed signal level type and frequency has placed increasing demands on printed circuit board (PCB) manufactures. Rapid advances in technology leave a trail of obsolescence. Redesigning and testing a new board to stay on the cutting edge can be expensive.
Onanon compliant pin technology simplifies and reduces the cost of PCB manufacture. They eliminate the machines, time, cost, and thermal stress of soldering. All the problems associated with solder such as residue, bridging, cracked or cold solder joints are eliminated as well.
Connectors can be manufactured with a PCB platform. These connectors can be part of an interconnection or plug-in modules designed to modify a board’s function. Both plug-ins and interconnection platforms have been designed and engineered using only terminating resistors or decoupling capacitors, while other platforms have hosted more complex configurations using microcontroller or analog chips.
Onanon’s compliant pin products provide production flexibility to manufacturers. Mass termination of connectors is common in the telecommunications industry. A press can inserts a connector with up to a thousand pins. Pin-stitching systems can apply discreet reeled pins one at a time. This latter process has the advantage of a flexible insertion pattern that can change to offer different options in the same PCB.
Onanon delivers custom headers according to the customer’s specification. These headers can be automatically inserted at the factory, or manually replaced in the field using ordinary tools.
Custom Compliant Pin Connector Product
Customized connector products can be engineered and manufactured with any pin size, shape or pattern and placed in a variety of insulators. Custom competes in price and delivery time with a prompt 5-days design-to-delivery. Since there are no set-up charges, modification can be made on connectors with just-in-time delivery to accommodate new board innovations. Custom often reduces the number of pins and places them only where needed, thus reducing connector PCB real estate. It simplifies assembly and maintenance.
Onanon assembles custom connectors by a fully automated process. Pins or contacts are installed to precision depth into machined insulators. Straight and secure installation in the plastic, ceramic or ferrite substrate is insured. The finished product is human inspected by real time x-ray analysis. This process has increased throughput by 50 percent or more, leading to dramatic cost reductions and reproducibility.
Custom connector are never obsolete or out of stock. These connectors exist in software and can be manufactured at any time and delivered according to your schedule. Just-in-time delivery simplifies inventory control. Repeatability assures that electrical characteristics of the connector will not vary. Innovation of your product is encouraged, since design changes can be made at any time without waste.
Specifications
Tested for reliability, Onanon compliant pin connectors work well under shock and temperature, enhancing the stability of end products. These interconnections can deliver DC to 10GHz, with pin-to-pin capacitance as low as
1-pF, inductances as low as 2-nH and connection resistance less than10-milliohms.
Application Areas
The cost-effectiveness and rugged ability of these pins allows them to be used in the harshest conditions such as aerospace, military and automotive industries. While they are able to perform in those extreme conditions, they are also able to perform in the most delicate devices such as medical instruments or cell phones.
Pricing and Availability
Onanon’s Compliant Pin Connectors are available now, with JIT delivery.
Prices begin at US$X.XX in quantities of X,XXX or more for configuration as shown.
