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PRONAT Electronics
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PRONAT Aerospace
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PRONAT Medical
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Production Capabilities
Wire Oriented in Silicone
These products are produced from the combination of high grade silicone and wire. The silicone elastomer acts as an environmental seal giving a high corrosion resistance, while the wire provides excellent conductivity to establish EMI/RFI integrity. Products are available in solid silicone or silicone sponge and a variety of wire types to suit the contact surfaces.
Conductive Elastomers
Conductive elastomers are composed of conductive microscopic particles integrated into silicone material. When compressed, the material functions as a conductor and thereby creates EMI and environmental gasketing. A selection of grades is available with alternative metal particles to suit the specific application.
Conductive O-rings
Conductive O-Rings are generally specified where there is a need for an effective seal between the cover and the housing of an electrical device that is emitting a magnetic field. The O-Ring is also effective as protection of the device from any external EMI/RFI field. Once embedded in its groove, the O-ring is also an effective environmental seal.
Availability:
O-Rings are available in a range of diameters and materials. Continuous reel, cut to length, or closed O-Ring
Fabric over Foam Gasket
Fabric over Foams strip gaskets consist of a conductive fabric or metal foil wrapped over foam. The gasket is attached with pressure sensitive adhesive. This solution achieves good shielding effectiveness with low surface resistance and is effective for grounding, EMI shielding and as an environmental seal. The product is easy to cut to any length to facilitate installation.
Multi-Purpose Fabric over Foam
Pronat uniquely offers a fabric over foam strip that is effective for both EMI shielding and as an environmental seal. We achieve this result by only covering two planes of the strip with a high quality EMI fabric. The third plane has a psa strip in order to facilitate mounting for simple installation. To ensure maximum durability, a high performance silicone foam is used.
The benefits of this product include:
- Excellent compression set
- Ease of opening and closing the enclosure.
- Low force required to achieve hermetic sealing.
- Multi tasking solution.
Conductive Cushion Pads
The conductive cushion consists of conductive foam with a base of conductive adhesive. The cells of the foam are plated with copper/nickel and provide good shielding effectiveness. Cushion pads are required as a base or as an enclosure liner to absorb shock and vibration. These are commonly used to protect mobile phones, PDA’s, TV’s, printers, GPS’s and other hand held devices
Microwave Absorbing Materials
Microwave absorbing materials are available in varying grades, densities and thicknesses, depending on the required frequency and for specific application performance. They are utelised where there is no possibility of grounding the shielding material.
Shielding Tapes
Metal Foil Shielding Tapes are available in aluminum, reinforced aluminum and copper.
All coated with conductive adhesive on one side. These highly conformable tapes are designed for many applications requiring moisture and chemical resistance, thermal conductivity, heat and light reflectance, flame resistance, and weatherability.
Availability :
- Copper, aluminum, tin-plated copper foil, fabric tape
- Conformable copper-plated fabric backing
- Smooth and embossed foil surfaces
- Conductive and nonconductive acrylic adhesive
- Tapes with release liners for die cutting and ease of handling.
Type:
- Copper – high conductivity
- Aluminum – effective shielding
- Aluminum reinforced – tear resistance
Form-in-Place
EMI Form-in-Place. An EMI paste can be dispensed onto conductive surfaces, such as an enclosure to form an EMI gasket. The surface of the electronic enclosure can be painted, plated, or metal. This dispensing process, utilizing a 3 axis robot, is ideal where the enclosure has narrow, complex or rounded surfaces, or contains miniature devices requiring a precision gasket. The solution protects the enclosure against internal and external radiated interference. Form-in-Place is an ideal solution where the usual O-ring placement in a groove cannot be satisfactorily achieved.
Knitted Wire Mesh with Enviromental Seal Properties
Knitted Wire Mesh with humidity or water seal are used to provide EMI/RFI protection to electronic cabinets, especially those mounted outdoors for exterior applications.
EMI Honeycomb Ventilation Panels
Aluminium honeycomb vent panels for RFI/EMI shielding and air flow consist of an aluminium honeycomb foil held in a rigid extruded aluminium mounting frame.
Many aluminium frame styles are available together with different thicknesses and configuration of honeycomb to meet different shielding requirements.
Protective grilles are available for vulnerable areas together with dust filtration foams.
Many plated or painted finishes can be specified.