Materials for Electronics Enclosures

The right selection of materials for enclosure manufacturing is a complicated task which requires expertise in industrial design, management and marketing. We help our clients select the right material for their electronics enclosures — prototypes and mass-produced designs.

We know how to combine various materials, including unusual ones: wood, ceramics, composites and additive materials, virtually all plastics, glass, and metals. Our experience in prototyping and production of electronics helps us choose the optimal materials, taking into account the electronics enclosure design needs, the client’s preferences and the chosen price range.

Material combinations

Combinations of different materials are often used in enclosure manufacturing: plastic + metal/glass/ceramics/rubber, etc.

In this case, we can provide relevant expert advice on manufacturing, which helps correctly implement jointing locations for selected materials to provide the specified requirements for integrity, flexibility and durability of the finished product, thus matching the designer’s and the customer’s preferences with real production capacities.

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Industrial design and construction of the new generation echo sounders.

1. For the upper part, the "glass" is poured separately and silkscreened. This glass is used as a mortar piece, which is poured over the plastic.
2. The resulting plastic part with glass is poured in rubber (TPU), which also forms the elastic buttons, serves as a protective bumper and is a "gasket" to ensure tightness of the enclosure when assembled with the bottom part, which is produced in the same way, but without mortgaging parts.

To implement this idea, the optimal serial technology was chosen - a two-component (2k) casting, which uses a special machine with two installed molds.

Qoobi One, a wireless vacuum tube preamp

To develop the mechanical design of a wireless tube amplifier, Qoobi One, using a ready-made design of our customer.

Non-standard materials were chosen for the production of the case:

1. Anodized aluminum with manual polishing for an internal enclosure that cools radio tubes, hiding the device's printed circuit board with a digital-to-analog converter and a chip with Bluetooth 5.0 support.
2. Thin quartz glass with engraving for manufacturing of the outer transparent case of the Qoobi One. It looks impressive and reveals the glowing radio tubes.

LED lighting of the device is controlled by a mobile application.

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