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Micro Cold Headed Pins
 Components produces cold-headed pins used as terminal pins, Kovar pins, connector pins, and other cold-headed pins and pin-related components where strength, precision shape – especially with high concentricity – and good smooth surface finishes are required. These qualities ensure a proper automatic connection with a high mean-time-between-failure rate and serve applications that require disconnection and reconnection multiple times for service or maintenance.
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Custom Micro Cold Headed Pins
Our cold-headed pins are manufactured using a wide variety of materials that are cold-formed while maintaining contact integrity, incorporating oxygen-free copper alloys (CDA 102, CDA 2102), copper-core alloys, copper-clad steels, stainless and low expansion alloys for hermetic seal applications, and many others.
In addition to offering both industry-standard and specialty materials, Components offers a variety of other useful services including design, prototyping, and tooling assistance. Put our expertise to work for you.
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            Custom Solution Examples
50 Ohm Connector (Kovar Pin)
Material: Kovar alloy (per ASTM F-15)
Manufacturing Method:
- Formed on a slide machine
 
Notable Features:
- Micro size Kovar pin
 - For the small connectors needed in RF devices
 - Spherical radius on one end, wire bondable flat on the other end
 
Advantages:
- Formed from wire with no scrap developed
 - The flat is very uniform and presents an exceptional wire bond surface.
 - The corner (or "edge") break at the end of the flat has a radius of .001" max.
 
 
 

- Good for wire bonding near the edge of this feature.
 - Very good finish on the spherical radiused end with no machining lines
 - Micro size allows this component to be used on very small connectors & hermetic seals
 
Wire Wrap Pins
Material: CDA 2102 copper
Manufacturing Method:
- Multi-Die cold-formed/coined/notched on a slide machine
 
Notable Features:
- Coined flat area with a notch to provide a precise location and a holding feature for the wire wrap.
 - Headed flange used as a stop and locating feature for circuit board insertion.
 
Advantages:
- Material waste is minimal. The part is formed from oxygen-free high conductivity copper wire round wire.
 
 
 

- An inexpensive way to produce high-volume pins with a coined/notched and headed feature on the part component.
 - Production speeds are high allowing for low production costs. Much faster than machining.
 
Cap Lead Combination Pin Terminal
Material: Kovar alloy per ASTM f-15 (nickel/cobalt alloy - glass to metal seal quality)
Manufacturing Method:
- Multi-Die cold formed
 
Notable Features:
- Very large volume head combined with small diameter shaft
 - Very high surface finish. No machining lines or machining tit present at either end of the part.
 - A very good surface finish present on the sealing surfaces. No leak paths.
 - Note the recessed trapezoidal shape in the top head surface.
 
Advantages:
- Material waste is minimal.
 - Production speeds are high allowing for low production costs. Much faster than machining.
 
 
 

- Normally, this component would be a two-piece welded unit combining a Kovar disc (ie: a button) with a terminal lead. This component is cold-formed as a one-piece unit therefore there is no weld/braze joint between two different pieces and no assembly error.
 - Concentricity of all diameters is near perfect: TIR approx. .002".
 - Surface finishes are smooth for good hermetic sealing characteristics. No machining marks/spirals/inclusions are present.
 
High Volume Kovar Pins
Material: Expansion alloy: Kovar (cobalt/nickel alloy) per ASTM F-15.
Manufacturing Method:
- Multi-Die cold formed
 
Notable Features:
- A very good surface finish present on the sealing surfaces. No leak paths.
 - Very large head volume on top of a small lead diameter.
 
Advantages:
- Material waste is minimal.
 - Cold forming the pin eliminates the presence of spiral machining lines.
 
 
 

- Production speeds are high allowing for low production costs. Much faster than machining.
 - Very smooth die mounting surface on top of head diameter.
 
Auto Rectifier: Headed C Band
Material: CDA 102 copper (oxygen-free; high conductivity copper)
Manufacturing Method:
- Cold-headed pin with coined C-Bend on a slide machine.
 - Complete off the machine.
 
Notable Features:
- The coined area is formed into a precise C-Bend.
 - Large-headed area (heat sink and braze attach platform).
 - Smooth top head surface (RMS 32 and better) with zero voids or inclusions or folds on the braze surface.
 
Advantages:
- Material waste is minimal. The part is formed from copper round wire.
 
 
 

- The C-Bend area is a stress relief feature providing longitudinal give protecting the die attachment.
 - Production speeds are high for this high-volume piece allowing for low production costs.
 
Shoulder Pin Connector
Manufacturing Method:
- Produced from coiled wire .101" diameter.
 - Manufactured completely from cold forming. No secondaries on slide machine.
 - Tooling designed & built in-house.
 
Notable Features:
- High thermal conductivity while resisting thermal softening at high temperature (or high radiation).
 - Maintains strength at high temperatures.
 - Part combines a cold-headed flange with a flattened area for wire bonding.
 - Surface finishes better than 32 RMS
 - Burrless
 
Advantages:
- No machining lines or cut-off deformations present.
 - The headed portion is used as a stop for insertion into a circuit board and the flattened area is to provide a pad for an electrical connection (ie: wire bond). Incorporated into a one-piece design.
 
 
 

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