T-Contact Products from Harwin Now Available Globally Via Digi Key, Mouser and TTI Channels

Harwin is exhibiting the T-Contact in Hall 3 – 750 at Embedded World

Portsmouth, UK, 23 January 2019 Following on from the release of its narrow-pitch T-Contact offering last year, Harwin has now secured supply chain support from leading distributors Digi-Key, Mouser and TTI.

Intended for incorporation into Harwin’s flagship Datamate series, each T-Contact makes use of an innovative 6-finger mechanical design, which has been machined out of a single piece of Beryllium Copper. Consequently, these compact and lightweight female contacts are able to deliver up to 8.5A in a 2mm pitch high-reliability connector – thereby boosting the current carrying performance of the previous generation of Datamate contacts by 250% and setting a new benchmark for the industry as a whole.

In addition to its elevated conductive properties, Beryllium Copper exhibits considerably greater spring performance than conventional connector contact materials (such as brass or phosphor bronze). Consequently, Harwin’s T-Contacts are able to endure 1000 mating cycles. Thanks to their gold plating, they have heightened levels of operational robustness ­– with a working temperature range of -55°C to +125°C, 100G shock resistance and vibrational resilience of 40G (390m/s²) for 6 hours. This means that they are suitable for deployment in even the most uncompromising of application environments.

“The longstanding relationships that we have with Digi-Key, Mouser and TTI have been instrumental in the company’s continued growth ­– enabling us to address key markets all over the world,” states Giorgio Potenza, Strategic Market Manager at Harwin. “Now, through the assistance of these highly-valued distribution partners, and the extensive commercial reach that they command, we can explore opportunities for our improved T-Contact-based Datamate connector portfolio in areas like unmanned vehicles, avionics and satellites.”

“The T-Contact presents a unique proposition to engineers. Because of our proprietary one-piece design, the constituent materials can be significantly thicker, thus reducing the overall contact resistance and increasing conductivity, as well as allowing enhanced thermal properties to be benefitted from,” adds Ridhwan Islam, Field Applications Engineer, Harwin.

About Harwin

Harwin is renowned worldwide for producing high reliability interconnect solutions that can deal with the most exacting of application demands - attending to the defense, aerospace, space, industrial, oil/gas and motorsport sectors. Over the course of the last 65 years, the company has continued to set new benchmarks in terms of innovation, automation and service, through ongoing investment in advanced equipment and the training of its staff. Harwin’s team of highly skilled engineers have been responsible for developing an impressive array of ‘must not fail’ connector products that outperform the competition. These include the Gecko (1.25mm pitch), Datamate (2mm pitch), Mix-Tek (combined signal, power and coax) and high temperature M300 (3mm pitch) product lines. In addition, the company offers easy-to-implement EMI/RFI shielding solutions, a comprehensive portfolio PCB hardware (spacers, links, bridges, terminals, test points, etc.) and a broad range of industry standard connectors. All these products are available with short lead times via its extensive sales and distribution network. Harwin’s global reach enables it to respond rapidly to customer needs, with sales offices and manufacturing facilities in the UK, the USA, Germany, France and Singapore. For more information, visit: www.harwin.com

For more details contact:

Ben Green – Head of Marketing, Harwin

Tel: +44 2392 314 532

bgreen@harwin.co.uk

Agency contact:

Rachel Sandeman – Account Director, Publitek

Tel: +44 2038 136 425

rachel.sandeman@publitek.com

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