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Integral Molding Concept

What is Integral Molding

• Bulk Cable ends are stripped, individual electrical contacts are attached to wires.
• Cable end with contacts attached is placed inside proprietary mold tooling system.
• Hot plastic is injected into tool by unique high-speed molding equipment.
• Finished connector comes out of tool ready to use. Created directly around cable, contacts and shell.
• A conventional connector is not used or attached to cable. Instead we form the connector body around the cable and pins, by unique molding processes.

Why Integral Molding is better:

• Professional custom-made appearance.
• More compact, light-weight.
• Highly reliable molded construction.
• Cable assemblies are supplied ready to use.
• Permits a wide choice of custom connector shapes.
• Permits large cost savings due to high-production techniques.

Unique Advantages to Purchasing

• No connectors to buy and stock.
• No bulk cable to buy and stock.
• In-house assembly and soldering people not required; Training unnecessary.
• Cable assemblies arrive complete-ready to use.
• Shipments scheduled to meet your needs, minimizing your inventory.
• You deal direct with the original manufacturer of both cable and connector.
• No odd hardware and connector accessories to buy and stock.
• Very low cost compared to conventional construction.

Unique Advantages to Engineering

• Highly reliable due to embedded construction of connector, and wires.
• No failures due to shorts. Molded insulation is excellent dielectric material.
• Molded insulation provides a distributed strain-relief to all wires and the cable jackets, minimizing failure due to axial strain on cable.
• Consistent low capacitance between circuits.
• Connector body outer surfaces are resilient, crack-proof, dent-resistant.
• Connector pins cannot "pull back" or move due to cable tensions.

Unique Advantages to Designers

• Permits unlimited choice of custom connector shapes for special applications.
• Molding allows certain shapes which cannot be obtained in metal connectors.
• Permits wide choice of colors for connector and cable.
• Molding allows use of plastic or metal inserts, clips, threaded nuts and other embedded materials not available in standard connectors.

Unique Advantages to Marketing

• Molded connectors have a custom professional appearance.
• Molded connectors and cable can be color-matched to the equipment.
• Molded connectors cannot tarnish. Always glossy, neat appearing.
• Your company name, trademarks or part number may be a permanent part of the connector surface.
• Pricing advantages due to low cost of molded cables.

Unique Advantages to Product Managers

• In-house assembly and soldering personnel not required.
• Inventory of cable & connectors not required.
• Assembly personnel training not required.
• Plant floor-space for assembly operation is free for other uses.
• No investment in high-production cable-terminating equipment.
• A single source is responsible for delivery of cable, connectors and effort to provide the finished item, permitting a unified control to meet your schedules.

Unique Advantages for Quality Control

• A single source is responsible for connectors, bulk cable, assembly and molding.
• Separate inspections of connectors, cable, soldering are avoided.
• Cable assembly arrives as a single unit; ready for acceptance.
• Inspection labor time is a minimum.