Design Guidelines
Why Use
Thermal Assembly?

Our Thermal Assembly Systems offer many distinct advantages
over other methods of assembly such as ultrasonic welding, riviteng, hot-air systems and infared!

Advantages:
  • Lower Capital Investment (Our process can cost you less than half the price of other methods!)
  • Unlimited Tooling Design: We can stake 100 posts or install 100 inserts in a single cycle!
  • Interchangeability of Tools: Our systems are NEVER dedicated to a single application!
  • Increased Productivity by Combining Several Operations or Parts into a Single Cycle!
  • Fast cycle times! Because of our ability to utilize standard features we developed for our product line, heatstaking with Sonitek system's is a cost saver for your secondary operations!
Insertion
  • Extremely quiet operation
  • Install all your inserts in on cycle
  • Will not produce metal flakes, chips or dust
  • No limit on quantity, size or plane
  • Minimal tool wear
  • Very low maintenance cost
  • Minimal hoop stresses applied to boss
  • Works on thin wall designs without cracking
  • 10% to 20% more holding retention
  • Large inserts easily installed
  • No material limitations

Staking / Swaging

  • 100% asthetically pleasing
  • No damage to fragile electronic or other sensitive components
  • Minimal tool wear
  • No flash or particulate matter created
  • Extremely tight stakes created with our proven methods
  • Any thermoplastic material easily staked/swaged
  • Stake one or one-hundred stakes on multiple planes
  • No cracking, splitting, breaking, or stresses applied to boss


At Sonitek we are secondary to none!

1-800-875-HORN (4676)


Sonic & Thermal Technologies, Inc.
84 Research Drive
Milford, CT 06460
Tel: (203) 878-9321 Fax: (203) 878-6786

Call Toll Free
1-800-875-4676

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