Packaging & Interconnects: Ultra-Low-Profile Battery Connector Targets Mobile Applications

Nov. 29, 2004

Designed for use with ultra-low-profile battery applications, the 9155 series connectors offer a contact beam static height of just 2.45 mm, providing a savings of 50% in height compared to existing commercial connectors. The connectors are available in three-contact positions and are spaced on 2.5-mm centers. Once they're fully deflected, the compressed height reduces to 1.3 mm above the board. All contacts are rated at 3 A. The 9155 series is supplied in tape and reel for automatic placement and features gold-plated contacts. Typical battery applications include mobile phones, PDAs, medical, personal mobile radio, and industrial systems. Price is approximately $0.50 each in 10,000-piece quantities.

AVX Corp.www.avxcorp.com; (843) 448-9411

About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.