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ABSTRACT: Characteristics of conductive elastomer that is composed of silicone rubber and dispersed carbon black particles show conductive and elastic properties in one simple material. This material has been widely applied to make-break contacts of panel switches and connectors of liquid crystal panels. However, since surface state of the contact is very soft, it is difficult to remove contaminant films of contaminated opposite side contact surface and to obtain low contact resistance owing to break the film. This is an important problem to be solved not only for the application of make-break switching contact but also static connector contacts. This study has been conducted to examine some complex structures of the elastomer which indicate removal characteristics for contaminant films and low contact resistance. As specimens, six different types of elastomer contacts composed of different type of dispersed materials as carbon and metal fibers, metal mesh, and plated surfaces were used. The contacts of opposite side were Au and Sn plated contact surface on a printed circuit board (PCB) which is usually used in the static connector and make-break contacts. In order to contaminate contact surfaces of PCB, the surfaces were subjected to exposure in an SO 2 gas environment. The elastomeric contacts contained hard materials showed lower contact resistance than only dispersed carbon particles in the elastomer matrix for both contaminated PCB contact surfaces.
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ABSTRACT: In recent years, there has been increasing demand to miniaturize wiring harness connectors in automobiles due to the increasing volume of electronic equipment and the reduction of the installation space allocated for the electronic equipment in automobiles for the comfort of the passengers. With this demand, contact failure caused by the fretting corrosion is expected to become a serious problem. In this report, we examined micro-structural observations of fretting contacts of two different tin plating thicknesses using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and so on. Based on the results, we compared the microstructure difference of fretting contact caused by the difference of the tin plating thickness.