Choose proper adhesive for your membrane switch is one of the more critical decisions you can make during the design process. Achieving a solid bond between your membrane switch and the surface to which it is adhered is vitally important to reducing failures and ensuring the long term reliability of your product. Your choice of adhesive essentially comes down to identifying the appropriate family of adhesives and the proper adhesive thickness. There are two families of adhesive used for these applications: “ acrylic ” adhesives and “ modified acrylic ” adhesives. Acrylic Adhesives Acrylic adhesives are a popular choice, and generally considered the industry standard, for membrane switch attachment applications. They provide outstanding adhesion to metal and high surface energy plastics. These adhesives provide some initial re-positionability for placement accuracy when bonding to plastics. They also perform well after exposure to humidity and hot/cold cycles. Typica...
To use a membrane switch, we must know the using steps, so that the membrane switch would not be damaged. The way of use determines the service life of the membrane switch to a certain extent. The precautions for pasting and storage of membrane switches and membranes are described as follows: 1.Pasting Steps: 1) Cleaning: Clean the liner, casing or pasting position (the surface to be pasted is required to be smooth, rust-free, oil-free, and dust-free). 2) Check the size: Put the membrane switch (before peeling off) to the place to be pasted to compare whether it is qualified; 3) Alignment: Peel off the adhesive on the back of the membrane switch about 10mm from the side (better on no-button area ), and then paste it to the corresponding position. Check the position of the entire switch and then continue to paste; 4) Pasting: peeling and pasting (the curvature of the membrane switch surface shall not be greater than 15 ° ); 2. Precautions for Pasting: 1) Pasting cannot be r...