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New Automotive REDCUBES
The new automotive REDCUBES PRESS FIT offer great added value for high reliability in the assembly of your application as well as for ensuring the correct performance of your application. The REDCUBE PRESS FIT terminals offer several advantages:
- The pins are now more robust preventing them bending in assembly or transportation processes thus increasing component quality and processability on the assembly side of the application.
- With the automotive series, 100% part testing is guaranteed through a 100% automated process by vision cameras programmed to detect part failures.
- Packaging has been improved to regulate the maximum capacity of the components in the packaging, guaranteeing a more reliable product.
REDCUCBE AUTOMOTIVE
TECHNOLOGY PRESS-FIT
REDCUBE PRESS-FIT terminals are ideal for high-power connections in automotive PCBs, generating minimal heat and creating strong, reliable connections by pressing pins into the PCB. This process ensures a friction-based cold-welded connection with very low contact resistance, capable of handling currents up to 250 A with minimal self-heating. These terminals are significantly more reliable long-term than surface-mount technology (SMT), supporting considerable mechanical stress and ensuring robust electrical and mechanical connections.
Press-fit technology offers several advantages over soldering, particularly for thick circuit boards with heavy copper plating, allowing for compact module designs with two-sided mounting. The press-fit process ensures consistent contact between the pin and the copper layer, providing better reliability and stability than soldering. REDCUBE PRESS-FIT connectors, made from RoHS-compliant CuZn39Pb3 material, can be press-fitted simultaneously without subjecting the circuit boards to thermal stress.
REDCUBE PRESS-FIT
Applications, Perfomance & Press-Fit Process
Applications
The current rating of REDCUBE PRESS-FIT is impressive. With the same ampacity, REDCUBE PRESS-FIT has the lowest heat development compared to other parts that supply power for PCBs.
- High current Wire-to-Board connections up to 250 A
- Mounting of copper bars on PCBs
- Installation of laminated fuses
- Installation of IGBT modules
- Suitable for rough environmental condition
Remarkable Performance
With the lowest Failure-In-Time value, REDCUBE PRESS-FIT is the most reliable technology on PCB. The FIT value is up to 30 times better than that of a SMD solder joint. REDCUBE PRESS-FIT is suitable for two-side mounting and allows very compact design of modules.
- Simple & quick processing
- No cold solder joints
- High process safety
- Low self heating
- Two-sided mounting of PCBs
PRESS-FIT Process
Pressing the pins into the PCB, a high friction between pin and plated through-hole generates a homogeneous cold-welding between materials. No other technology transfers power up to 250 A at this low heat development.
- Homogeneous material transition between pin and through-hole plating
- Contact resistance less than 200 μΩ
- Gastight electrical and mechanical connection
- Extremely strong mechanical connection