Plastronics Socket H-Pin Technology
 

H-Pin® Overview

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H-Pin® Technology
US Patent #7025602

Plastronics developed a new series of high performance, compliant contacts to serve high volume applications that require reliable electrical, mechanical, and thermal interconnect with program enabling manufacturability. The H-Pin® is a stamped contact with probe pin performance providing a robust contact solution for burn-in, programming, and system level applications.

High Volume Manufacturing

Utilizing high volume BeCu stamping technology, combined with a stainless steel spring for mechanical travel, the H-Pin® has a working range up to 0.70 mm with a flat spring rate, can be utilized up to 15GHz with -1.0dB loss, carry up to 4 amps of current and withstand temperatures up to 200°C. Automation has been developed to assemble the contact pin onto a stamped lead frame. The lead frame may then be singulated for hand loading or left on the lead frame reel and placed into an automated loading system.

H-Pin® Applications

Sockets and Interconnects for high-volume applications, featuring highly compliant contact elements with excellent mechanical, thermal, and electrical characteristics are here.

For the burn-in, programming, and system-validation markets (or other markets) that require 10,000+ insertions and thousands of sockets, the options are limited. The solution: The H-Pin®.

H-Pin® Features and Benefits

The H-Pin® is a stamped spring probe with the mechanical, electrical, and thermal performance of a spring probe and the ease of use and high volume manufacturability of a stamped contact. The H-Pin® serves applications without the typical compromises that are generally required when considering cost versus performance.

Features: Benefits:
0.40 mm to 0.7 mm Travel Compliancy for Large Package Warpage
Flat Spring Rate Stable Contact Resistance and Force
BeCu H-Pin® Solid Beam Electrical Performance
Stainless Steel Core Spring Compliancy at High Temperatures (180°C)
Bandwidth -1dB @ 15GHz Correlated BI, System Evaluation and Test
Current Carrying Capacity Reliable Power and Ground Contact
High Volume Stamping * Stocked Inventory and Better Lead Time
Automated Pin Assembly * High Volume Capacity and Quality Control
Reel-to-Reel Pin Insertion * High Volume Capacity and Ease of Use
* Production Tours available upon request for qualified programs
 
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