Dual-entry vertical card-edge connectors from KYOCERA AVX target automotive, transportation, manufacturing, consumer electronics, white goods, automation equipment, sensors, light curtains and smart home systems.

The 9159-800 connectors have the company’s lowest above-board height profile and provide users in the automotive, transportation, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics and white goods industries with space savings, flexibility and reliability.

Engineered to satisfy growing cross-market demand for card-edge connectors and persistent cross-market demand for compact, space-saving connectors, they have a compact form factor equipped with four to twenty field-proven, high-strength beryllium copper compression contacts arranged in two rows with a 1mm pitch. The gold-plated compression contacts enable easy, solderless installation and exhibit current-carrying capacity up to 2A per contact.

They also have low contact resistance and deliver reliable electrical and mechanical performance suitable for use in harsh environments. In addition, the design supports top- and bottom-entry mating configurations to deliver broad application suitability and recessed through-board mounting to deliver an above-board height profile of 3.5mm.

Applications extend throughout the automotive, transportation, industrial manufacturing, consumer electronics and white goods industries and include automotive infotainment systems and body electronics, automation equipment, sensors, light curtains, smart home systems, and major appliances.

They have white, glass-filled, high-temperature, flame retardant (UL94 V-0) and halogen-free insulators equipped with stop shoulders to ensure proper pad positioning and gold- and tin-over-nickel-plated beryllium copper compression contacts rated for up to 2A per contact and 50-cycle durability.

The connectors (www.kyocera-avx.com/products/connectors/board-to-board/perpendicular-motherdaughter/9159-800-series) are rated for up to 150V AC RMS or the DC equivalent and operating temperatures from -40 to +125˚C. They can mate with 1.6mm-thick PCBs with gold-plated pads, provided they are not metal core PCBs. They are also UL and RoHS compliant and supplied on tape-and-reel packaging for automated processing.

“We are thrilled to extend our vertical card-edge connector product portfolio with the addition of the new 9159-800 series dual-entry card-edge connectors,” said Marc Actis, senior marketing manager at KYOCERA AVX. “Our card-edge connector products are backed by decades of cutting-edge research and development and field-proven performance in a wide variety of applications extending throughout multiple industries. Over the last five years, we’ve seen growing interest in card-edge connectors from customers in multiple industries, and this latest addition to our portfolio offers these customers an unbeatable combination of space savings, flexibility and performance.”

KYOCERA AVX (www.kyocera-avx.com) is a manufacturer of electronic components with a global footprint comprised of several dozen research, development and manufacturing facilities spanning more than 15 countries. The company designs, develops, manufactures and supplies capacitors, antennas, interconnects, circuit protection and timing devices, sensors, controls, filters, fuses, diodes, resistors, couplers, and inductors for employment in the 5G, IoT, aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial, medical and military markets.