CONSUMER
DEVICES
End
Uses
Why Copper
Beryllium?
Designers and manufacturers
of consumer electronic devices face difficult challenges in maintaining
pace with rapidly changing technologies and the short design cycles
that result. To ensure product reliability and quality while rolling
out new products in these shortened design cycles, designers rely on
copper beryllium as their material of choice. Copper beryllium strip
alloys are superior to phosphor bronze and nickel alloys in consumer
electronic applications because of their superior combination of material
properties - high strength, excellent forming characteristics, enhanced
end of life reliability and the ability to endure repeated high stress
loading without failure. If you need a product that works right the
first time, then copper beryllium is your material.
User Benefit
/ Solution
Copper
beryllium is specified and used in applications where a combination
of high strength, high conductivity, excellent stress relaxation resistance
and formability are required to optimize a contact design and maximize
the reliability of the contact interface. Benefits to the end user include
improved shock resistance that improves MTBF(mean time between failure),
greater life cycle reliability, and improved battery life, resulting
from lower contact resistance. Additionally, the extensive base of knowledge
that exists in the design, tooling and fabrication of copper beryllium,
allows for a significant improvement in the time to market and time
to volume of new products.
