Custom Keyboards and Input Devices - INDUKEY - #11

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58 Enclosures and Devices Technologies www.custom.indukey.com InduKey® Keyboard Production GmbH & Co. KG Enclosures and Devices Besides the keyboard unit, a suitable housing is an essential component of an operating system. Very often, the standard housing range does not satisfy customer needs. Therefore, InduKey develops and provides customized keyboard or device housing. For this, we use the different manufacturing technologies of our suppliers being selected in such a way that they are optimally suited for your application with regard to design and manufacturing costs. Whether plastic or metal, we will provide you with the adequate housing. Tool-free housing technology • Suited for prototypes and medium series • Plate material is scored and bent • Front panels are specifically glued • For simple geometric contours • No tool making required Injection moulding • Suited for large-scale production • Cost-efficient serial production of housing • Dimensional stability • Complicated spherical contours possible • Cost-efficient tool making and manufacture Metal housing • Use of standard extruded profiles • Design of bowl casings • Highly robust and protective • IP level up to 65 available • Different surface coatings Negative deep drawing • Suited for series production of medium quantities (< 500 pieces) • Cost-efficient manufacture of the deep-drawing die • Design-oriented undercuts available • Various joint designs available • Different surface textures Housing made by: • Sand and dead-mould casting or pressure die and waste wax casting • Aluminium pressure die casting • Magnesium pressure die casting • Magnesium waste wax casting • Plastic injection moulding … we find the optimum technology for your robust housing.