Wire-to-board card-edge connectors equipped with two solderless contact technologies

The new 9169-000 Series connectors feature robust beryllium copper compression contacts and insulation displacement contacts, making it easy to establish reliable, high-signal-integrity connections in a wide range of harsh environment lighting, industrial, and consumer electronics applications.

Kyocera AVX has released the new 9169-000 Series single-piece wire-to-board card-edge connectors.

The new series wire-to-board card-edge connectors combine two field-proven solderless contact technologies that make it straightforward to establish high-integrity connections and produce excellent electrical and mechanical performance in harsh-environment automotive, transportation, and solid-state lighting, industrial, and consumer electronics applications: IDCs for reliable cold-welded, gas-tight wire-to-connector terminations and BeCu compression contacts for high-reliability wire-to-board terminations. These new connectors also feature a locating rib for polarisation, which stops PCB insertion errors, and board-locking latches on both sides, reinforcing their mechanical retention strength.

The new series is offered with 2–10 contacts that are on a 2.5mm pitch, equipped with gold or pure tin plating on the nose area, and designed to terminate 22–28AWG solid or stranded wires and 1.6mm-thick PCBs with gold or tin-plated pads. It is also available with glass-filled UL94 V-0 polyamide 66 (PA66) insulators in eight different colours: white, black, orange, green, red, yellow, blue, and brown. In terms of performance, it is rated for 100VACRMS or the DC equivalent, up to 3A for variants with 2–6 contacts (U.S. UL), up to 2A for variants with 7–10 contacts, and ten cycles in operating temperatures extending from -40C to +130C, and it's also UL approved.

"Kyocera AVX has been producing IDC and compression contact technology for more than 50 years and always uses beryllium copper as the base material to ensure durability and reliability throughout the product lifecycle," said Perrin Hardee, product marketing manager, Kyocera AVX. "Our new 9169-000 Series single-piece wire-to-board card-edge connectors utilise both of these proven solderless contact technologies, which makes them quick and easy to install and ensures high-reliability, high-signal-integrity performance and leverage polarisation and locking mechanisms to ensure proper card insertion and robust retention in harsh-environment automotive, transportation, and solid-state lighting applications, industrial applications, and consumer electronics applications, including appliances."

Also, customers who need more flexibility than the nine standard pin counts (2–10) and four standard wire gauges (22– 28AWG) can contact the company's team to request custom pin counts and pitches and further application testing.