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News Release from: Chomerics Europe | Subject: Soft-Shield 3500
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 July 2007
Shielding gaskets save steps for TV
maker
EMI shielding gasket material offers multiple advantages in the manufacture of LCD televisions.
Using its Soft-Shield 3500 EMI shielding gasket material, Chomerics Europe has been able to provide a solution for an application on LCD televisions that delivers multiple benefits The material, which consists of an electrically conductive fabric wrapped around a urethane foam core, is able to provide a complete solution in a single component
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Prior to the adoption of Soft-Shield 3500 for this application, EMI shielding was achieved using spring fingers, with a separate nonconductive, elastomeric material used to provide a gasket.
Replacing the existing solution with the Chomerics material gave a significant cost reduction plus a number of important performance benefits.
These included vibration dampening and UL94V0 flammability rating.
Chomerics was also able to achieve supply benefits including a reduction in lead time of approximately 50%.
The Chomerics solution involves the production and supply of a number of custom profiles.
These are kitted and labelled according to the TV type on which they are to be used.
The kits typically comprise a number of pieces of Soft-Shield 3500, each part having a pressure sensitive adhesive backing and an extended liner to speed and ease assembly.
The construction of Soft-Shield 3500 gives an extremely low closure force of typically less than 0.175N/mm.
The material has an operating temperature range of -40 to +70C and is available in more than 90 different profiles.
The material can be manufactured in Chomerics facilities in the USA, Europe and Asia.
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