Precision Stamping
As a company, our progressive stamping experience reaches back to the 1970s, when we were named Solid State Stamping. The founder of Solid State Stamping was co-inventor of the process of bandoliering. Over the years we have pioneered many new techniques and processes to produce electrical connector pins and contacts. Our stamping capabilities also allow us to produce lead frames with complex geometrics for power and electronic signal distribution. We produce a wide variety of connector pins from basic straight pins to complex eye-of-the-needle compliant pins.
Compliant pins are typically produced using metal strip, but SCG has developed a method of producing them from wire as well as from strip. With the wire method, compliant pins are easier to produce and use less material, which lowers material costs. Since they are made from wire, they also have a true radius, which results in better contact with the PCB through-hole.
High precision machined tips can be applied to both round and square pins to give them a bullet nose shape. Another new technology developed and perfected by SCG is the formed tip. Like the machined tip, it can be applied to both square and round pins, but it is faster, thereby reducing manufacturing costs.