Harwin shows durable board-to-board connectors
Harwin will show its latest compact and reliable board-to-board connectors for high-performance embedded and industrial designs at the inaugural Embedded World North America exhibition and conference in Austin, Texas.
The advanced board-to-board connectors address demanding size, weight and reliability criteria while supporting high data rates and offering compatibility with high-speed, automated manufacturing.
Among the Harwin technologies on show will be the durable, high-performance Kontrol series of 1.27-mm pitch PCB connectors, designed for industrial applications, along with the newly introduced Flecto range of fine-pitch, high-pin-count floating connectors.
The Kontrol family features flexible, rugged and space-saving board-to-board and board-to-cable connectors designed to withstand the rigorous demands of industrial applications ranging from factory automation systems to hand-held equipment. Flecto has been specifically designed to address the data and power transfer demands of high-performance applications while providing the positional tolerance needed to support high-speed automated assembly of PCBs with multiple connector pairs. Featuring spring-like terminals that allow them to move laterally and longitudinally, ‘floating’ connectors such as Flecto are able to accommodate a certain degree of mis-alignment as well as contribute to improved connection integrity by absorbing shock or vibration during operational lifetime.
Available in all-signal or mixed signal and power options, Flecto offers a broad range of options for contact pitches and number of contacts per connector, with mated mounting heights as low as 5.98 mm. Products in the family support both parallel and right-angle interconnects, while additional support for accurate alignment and robust interconnects includes location pegs that eliminate movement during solder reflow and retention tabs. The connectors that mix signal and power also offer through-board solderable posts to augment both location accuracy and mechanical strength, enhancing resistance to shocks.
With the Flecto family of floating connectors, designers are free to deploy multiple connectors per board pair without worrying about manufacturing compatibility. This can bring a number of benefits to the design. For example, sensitive analog circuitry can be segregated from noisy digital signals (such as system clocks), while time-sensitive traces can be kept as short as possible to avoid introducing latency problems.
“Microcontrollers, microprocessors, memory and software are typically top of mind when developing embedded systems, but the connectors used to transfer system data and power also play a critical role in the end application’s functionality, performance, size, weight and reliability,” says Jessica Knight, Harwin’s Vice President of Sales, Americas. “Embedded World North America is the perfect event to highlight how our comprehensive portfolio of products help engineers address these criteria in advanced embedded designs.”
Alongside Kontrol and Flecto products, Harwin will also be demonstrating a wide range of other robust and reliable connector technologies for applications that range from submarines to satellites, industrial automation to uncrewed vehicles, and medical equipment to automotive electronics.
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