rubber button
Over the last several years, the rubber button featured on our site has become increasingly popular across multiple industries. In fact, if you take a look at some electronic devices in your home, you’ll probably notice that it is present in remote controls, gaming consoles, as well as your kids’ toys! As the name implies, the button is manufactured from rubber, and its main characteristic is that is flexible and soft, unlike some other materials available on the market. Because the rubber button is flexible and soft, more and more industries choose to use it as an alternative to traditional materials.
Besides it being soft and flexible, the rubber button does offer other benefits as well. For starters, when it is pushed down, it will produce a natural response, hence, when our clients use, for example, their remote controls, they will know when the button pressed was registered. How is that possible? Well, it is quite simple, when pressed, it will cave in and when released, it will return to its original position and shape. This is incredibly beneficial for our customer experience, mostly because they can make sure that they don’t make a mistake when using the rubber button – which is quite important with keyboards.
Additionally, we offer a wide range of shapes and sizes for this particular component and the size can go down to 3mm! Because of this, a wide range of industries and businesses can use the rubber button offered by our company to accommodate their application needs and processes. In most cases, it is used in industrial control systems, HMIs, as well as other electronic interfaces. It is worth mentioning that it can also support laser etching, which means that, if needed, our clients could opt for purchasing a customized button that will suit their needs and requirements.
Product specifications
- Product form
- Molded elastomer key or keypad assembly
- Application focus
- Remote controls, game controllers and industrial control panels. Size the part against the selected assembly.
- Dimensions to confirm
- Key pitch, web thickness, key height and circuit-board registration. Match these to remote controls and game controllers.
- Keypad details
- Laser-etched areas. Include the relevant artwork, contact layout and acceptance requirements in the drawing.
- Key actuation
- Set the force, travel and return action on the assembled switch or keypad.
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