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News Release from: Chomerics Europe | Subject: Cho-Seal 1285
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 February 2008
Conductive elastomer improves in-car
multimedia
Using its Cho-Seal 1285 conductive elastomer, Chomerics designed a custom extrusion that improved the performance of a rear windscreen antenna receiver unit.
Chomerics Europe has helped a leading automotive tier one supplier to provide an innovative answer to a design challenge encountered on a rear windscreen antenna receiver unit for a European luxury vehicle manufacturer The requirement was for an electrical connecter that had previously been achieved using metal-spring fingerstock
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Using its Cho-Seal 1285 conductive elastomer, Chomerics was able to design a custom extrusion that satisfied several important unmet needs.
The low-impedance connector supplied by Chomerics allowed high-frequency radio signals from the glass-mounted antenna to pass easily through its structure.
This helped to ensure quality reception for in-car multimedia and telematics devices.
The same component also allowed current to pass in the other direction to power screen-mounted LEDs and other applications.
In addition to a lower component cost and reduced labour costs due to faster assembly, Cho-Seal 1285 also offered other important benefits versus the metal-spring fingerstock approach.
These included high corrosion resistance, reduced compression force requirement and the ability to compensate for mechanical tolerance build up in the assembly.
Cho-Seal 1285 is suitable for use at temperatures between -65 and +200C.
It has a silicone binder/silver plated aluminium filler construction and allows engineers to design lightweight, compliant (65+/-5 Shore A) mouldings for use in harsh environments.
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