BEST Chinese Lunar New Year Holiday Arrangement

December 9th, 2008

As the Chinese Lunar New Year will come soon, everyone will back home and enjoy the happy time with family and friends. As usual, Best Technology will close our facilities(including manufacturing) over the upcoming holidays. We will closed from January 16, 2009 to February 1, 2009 and re-open on Monday, February 2, 2009.

So we recommend our customers to plan orders with this in mind to ensure timely delivery and make sure has enough stock at your side. You can go ahead, or postpone your order. Please feel free to contact us at +86-769-8169 4901, or sales@metal-domes.com with any questions.

We wish you and your family a wonderfuly holiday season and we thank you for your continued supporting, and hope your business will become better and better in new year 2009.

Respectfully Yours,

Peter Gui,

Sales & Marketing Manager,

BEST, always be your best choice of metal dome and dome array in China

http://www.metal-domes.com

Brand-new Four-leg Domes in 8mm

November 15th, 2008

Hi, dear friends! Rory here would bring you a brand-new diameter of our four-leg domes, it is in 8mm! Just follow me, I will show you the parameters of them!

Normally, the diameter of  four-leg domes are 6mm, 7mm, 8.4(8.4mm), 10mm, 12.2mm, 16mm, 20mm, none use 8mm. In fact, in most of cased, this 8mm dome can be replaced by 8.4mm, but sometimes, customers like to use exact 8mm. This is why we develop new mould for 8mm dome.

So do not hesitate to contact us if you need our products or have other questions!

Best Technology, providing best products with best service in best price, would always be around you!

One-Key Dome Array: Single Metal Dome with adhesive PET

October 18th, 2008

Hi, welcome to Best Technology again! Last time we have introduced our lacer cutting technology! Further to that advanced technology, we have dealt with many orders of one-key dome arrays, which are difficult to handle before the adoption of laser cutting machine!

Tracing the days when we have adopted the laser cutting machines, we have lost many orders for the one-key dome arrays! On the other hand, we cannot meet to our customer requirements for dealing the single metal dome with adhesive array without setting up a tooling!

As we all know, a set of tooling would cost an amount of tooling fee. Considering the quantity not large enough, as well as price relatively high with tooling fee, many customers refuse to give orders to us. We also felt sorry for not able to serve with our customers and never give up searching the best way to work out this problem!Â

Finally our efforts are paid off! Now we can deal with any order of one-key dome array. The adhesive array size would be a bit larger than the dome size, so that customers can easily stick the single dome onto PCB or any place they want put to.

Followed is one of the drawings for 8.4mm four-leg dome array:

Peeled Off Kiss Cut Metal Dome Array

Peeled Off Kiss Cut Metal Dome Array

Of course we can do any size as per customers requirements! For instance, we have dealt with one case, where our customer demanded limited space for adhesive PET (like 8*8mm) of 6mm circle metal dome.

Usually we would do the PET size of 10*10mm for 6mm domes; in this case, we finally work out by the size of 8*10mm, so that the array would not only surpass the limited space, but also functions well sticking to the board! Hereby are some pictures of goods we have made:

Single Key Four-leg Metal Dome Array

Welcome to any order of One-Key Dome Array from Best Technology! We can make most tapes of metal dome in different size and shape.

Seemed interested? I think it will save a lot of time for you to assemble bulk metal dome using a adhesive tape at your side. This is what we want, to save time and increase efficiency of assembly.

Any question? Please leave your message or contact us todayd for single key metal dome array now!

Newly Advanced Laser Machine for Dome Array

August 11th, 2008

Newly Advanced Laser Machine for Dome Array

Hey, everyone! It has been some time for our last communication! Pls do never forget our best products with best service from our Best Technology! We always dedicate to serving you better, faster, and easier! Today, we are going to introduce our newly advanced technology of laser cutting, so that it is available for us to guarantee the manufacture for small quantities of dome array, no matter with single domes or in customer designed, and no tooling fee would be charged!

As you know, when we do not have laser machines, it is difficult for us to accept a dome array order of small quantity (like 1K or 5k) without setting up a tooling! Sometimes, customers do not want to set up a tooling, but our manufacture would consume a large amount of hand labor! Thus, many opportunities of cooperation have been passed because of the cost of manufacture!

Fortunately, we have adopted the technology of laser cutting in making dome arrays since second half of this year! With laser cutting machine, we can handle the outline and key positions of dome arrays without setting up a new tooling. In this case, our customers don’t have to worry about tooling fee for any small order, and we don’t have to worry about the large cost of labor force! Thus we would have more opportunities serving with you. Pls view part of production line as followed:

Laser Cutting Machine

Welcome your any order of dome array !

New LGF metal Dome Array Announce

June 28th, 2008

LGF metal dome array is a new design with the purpose of improving current one. As everyone knows, the light under keypad is coming from the LED on PCB motherboard. We need to put about 8-10 pieces LED on each board, but if the design changed to use LGF, then we can save several LED, as well as SMT fee.

LGF, which full name is Light Guide Film. When we add a LGF on current normal double layer or EMI dome array, it becomes a LGF dome array. It can achieve great result of light distribution.

structure of double layer dome arrays

LGF, at least one surface out of front and rear surfaces of the light guide film is formed with a pattern such that density increases as distanced from a light source to allow light to be uniformly supplied to the keypad, or is concentratively formed with a pattern at a particular region of the light guide film to allow the light to be concentratively supplied to a particular region of the keypad.

You can see from belowing picture of a LGF. You can see the pattern around the light source (LED). Only 9 LED are needed for such a large area (160*72mm).

LGF

On the motherboard of mobile phone, through the optical refraction, only 1~4 pcs LED will be enough for soft and high light luminance, if using our LGF dome array (mobile phone LGF). At the same time, we can adjust luminance of the black area during the design to achieve the value to 30CD/M2.

You can see from this picture, when we turn on the LED and then the light will be guided through whole flat area.

LGF with LED

Our LGF dome array can be used widely in high value added mobile phone, solving the problem of uneven of luminance, high power-consumption, big room space requirements and high costing. We can make LGF dome array in various color and shape, also adjust different artwork to make LGF, such as printing, mould punching, etc.

dome arrays

LGF Dome Array Character:

  1. Good lighting result, even luminance and high intensity of light
  2. Soft, flexibility and elasticity, thickness is about 0.125mm which does not need too much space.
  3. Save LED & power consumption, two LED will be enough for small area mobile phone LGF.
  4. No special request for electrical trace
  5. Great stability, long durability, the life cycles can reach up to 1 million times.
  6. When assembly with metal dome array, LGF will not affect the clicking feeling.

Please contact Best Technology for more information about LGF dome array. We are always to be your best partner of metal dome and metal dome array around the word.

Chinese Lunar New Year

January 21st, 2008

Did you know the time that every people in China will go home and enjoy the family harmonious? Each guy will stop their works, but just eat, drink, visit friends for non-stop for two weeks and set off so many firecrackers that you’ll fee in a rejoice paradise. It should be the longest holiday in the word. Nearlly all China in on vacation.

Did you know what we’re talking about? Chinese Lunar New Year? Yes, exactly. It’s coming now!

On New Year’s Eve, which is Feb 6th, 08 this year, people will watch the TV, play games, eat dumpling, and waiting for the New Lear coming. Like the Christmas, but will be much long period and more partying. How wonderful it’ll be!

To celebrate Lunar New Year, we’ll be on rest from Feb 2nd to Feb 14, and resume works on Feb 15.

During that period, we will still have people on duty, email access is still available but reply will be much delay. You can discuss the details and settle down somethings but products manufacturing or samples making will be stopped. So if you need any products or samples, please help to accelerate that process or postpone it.

We are always doing our best to provide high quality products, great service to our clients and we hope this arrangement will not affect you so much. Your understanding is the drive force us to go ahead.

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year!

New Year Holiday Arrangement

December 27th, 2007

Hello Everybody:

The 2008 is coming now. Hereby we express our best wishes for everyone a happy, prosperious, well-liking New Year. Here follows is our holiday arrangement:

Dec 29, 07: Working
Dec 30, 07 ~ Jan 2, 08: On rest
Jan 3, 08: someone on duty
Jan4, 08: Resumes working

Happy New Year!

Sincerely Yours,

BEST

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

December 21st, 2007

Merry Christmas

Dear Valued Customers:

Christmas and New Year is coming now.

Thanks for your support and understanding in 2007 and hope to continue to get it from you. Please accept my sincere wishes for the Holy season.  I hope you will continue to enjoy good health and happniess will be always with you and your family, and sincere wish for a bright, prosperous and happy New Year!

Best Regards,

Peter Gui

BEST CO., LTD.

How To Order Metal Domes From BEST

November 29th, 2007

As the business growing, more and more people around the world know “BEST” and interested in our Metal Dome and Metal Dome Array and they want to purchase. But as the there’re different ways of sales methods, someone maybe confused and didn’t know how to buy. They will ask some questions such as:

1)”Do you have a distributor in our country?”

2) “Can I buy it directly from you?”

3) “Can I use my Credit Card to pay?”"

4) If I want to place an order with us, how can I do that?”

and so on…

My Friend, in our FAQ or our blog, we have mentioned these questions.

1) “Do you have a distributor in our country?”

For question of distributor, we don’t use it,  because it’ll be more convenient and fast for you to buy directly from us. Click FAQ for more about this.

2) “Can I buy it directly from you?”

Of course you can. Buy directly from us will be better.

3) “Can I use my Credit Card to pay?”

Yes. Please browse this article in our blog for more: “New Payment for Small Charge:”Credit Card and Paypal

4) “If I want to place an order with us, how can I do that?”

Here, I would like to talk about the question 4. This time, we just say somethings about Metal Dome and next time, Metal Dome Array.

There’re basic steps to buy Metal Dome from us, if it’s the firstly time you purchase from “BEST

1) Confirm what you need.
Please advice us the detailed parameters, such as force requirement, with dimple or not, surface treatment, Natural or Nickel plated? With EMI (ESD) or not? As well as your other requirement, such as quantity, expected lead time, etc.
You can browse these articles:

Metal Dome Technology and Parameters
How to Measure the Parameters of Metal Domes
ESD and EMC

You can just browe the category to learn more.

Didn’t know the above figure? No problem! Please contact us, we will choose the suitable one for you.

2) We quote you the price after everything is confirmed

3) You send us the PO

For PO, you can send it via Fax or via Email.

4) We send you a Proforma Invoice and you made the payment
You can chose the most suitable payment method, T/T (Telex Transfer) or Credit Card.

5) After receiving the payment, we send us the goods and advice the tracking informatin. Normally we ship goods via carriers such as DHL, UPS, FedEx, etc.

6) You receiving the goods and business settled down and waiting for your repeat-orders or new enquiries.

My Friend, I hope you already know to do now. Bright future is coming. We will provide high quality Metal Dome with best service to you.

Still have questions? Please don’t heistate to contact us. Just send out an email and we will do following things for you.

How to Measure Parameters of Metal Dome – Four-Legs Series

October 22nd, 2007

Not everybogy knows everything, so does the purchasing of metal domes. I have got many enquiries about metal domes, but necessary information was missed, so I need to ask for that. The top quesionts which I asked for are as follows:

1) Shape
Of course we need to know the shape of metal domes. It’s the initial step to decide what kind of metal dome is. Right now, we have four basic shapes, namely: Circle, Four-Legs(Cross), Triangle and Oblong. For more, please check: Metal Domes (http://www.metal-domes.com/products.htm)

2) Diameter
The diameter decide the size of metal domes. But the measure point of different metal dome is different, that is the starting point and the ending point is different. Today, I will discuss majorly about Four-Legs(Cross)series.

Firstly, look at following picture showing the metal domes with different diameters.

http://www.metal-domes.com/blogimages/F-series-metal-dome-with-dimple

(F-series-metal-dome-with-dimple)

Then let me check how to measure the diameter of F series metal dome, using a vernier caliper.

Diameter Measurement

Now, you can check the figure is 12.2mm, and this means the diameter of that dome is 12.2mm. Yeah, absolutely right. Let’s exlain it by CAD Drawing. It’ll be more helpful for you to understand that.

dome-parameters

Does it make a sense now?

3) Height and travel of metal dome

You will note from the above picture that how to measure the height and travel of metal dome. In fact, we have discussed this issue before. You can browse this article to get more parameters of metal dome: Metal Dome Technology and Parameters: http://www.metal-domes.com/blog/2006/11/11/metal-dome-tech-and-parameter

I hope you’ll understand what you will need after view the above. If you still have questions, please feel free to contact us.

In next article, we will talk about how to measure other metal domes with different shape.

(to be continue…)