Custom Pin Grid Array (PGA) Technology

Custom Pin Grid Array adds to our capabilities an important design option to our medical market customers. By developing medical connectivity solutions using the PGA technology we offer the market a cutting-edge solution to provide RF performance for medical devices. The use of spring probes and target contacts in a grid array layout reduces the size, weight, and cost of the connector. Comparing the relative size of the grid array and coaxial contact connectors in selected applications, the Spring Probe based Grid Array contacts occupy only about ½ the space of traditional coaxial contacts. Also by replacing pin and socket contacts with spring probes, cleaning the cable connector can be faster and easier since flat target contacts are simpler to clean than coaxial sockets, thus improving throughput in a medical devices.