Categories of Pogo Pins
By structures:
- Standard Straight Type: The most basic Pogo Pin, consisting of a plunger, barrel, and spring, is suitable for most standard connection needs.
- Bias Type: Plunger tip designed at an angle, suitable for applications requiring angled connections.
- Back Drilling Type: Plunger with back drilling, suitable for the shortest Pogo Pin length.
- Tail Wire Type: One end of the Pogo Pin has a standard plunger tip, while the other end connects to a wire, suitable for wire-to-board connections.
- High Current Type: Designed to carry higher currents by increasing pin diameter and optimizing internal structure.
- Three-piece Type: The most common internal structure, including plunger tip, barrel, and spring.
- Four-piece Type: A bead or T-pin is added between the plunger and spring internally to improve current-carrying capacity.
- Five-piece Type: Both beads and T-pin are added between the plunger tail and spring internally, another internal structure to enhance current-carrying capacity.
By electrical performance:
- High Current Type: Used for carrying larger currents, with larger diameters to reduce contact resistance and heat loss. Suitable for chargers, power connections, etc.
- High-Frequency Type: Reduces signal attenuation and improves signal transmission quality, particularly focused on protecting signal integrity. Suitable for USB, HDMI interfaces, etc.
- Low Resistance Type: With extremely low contact resistance, ensuring efficient electrical connections and minimal energy loss. Used in precision electronic devices, measuring instruments, etc.
- High Voltage Type: Withstands high voltage operation, featuring enhanced insulation materials and structural design. Used in power equipment, industrial control systems, etc.
- Low Noise Type: Reduces electrical noise interference and improves signal transmission clarity. Suitable for audio equipment, medical instruments, and high-precision measuring devices.
- EMI/RFI Type: Shields electromagnetic interference and radio frequency interference with special materials and designs, protecting sensitive signals. Suitable for communication equipment, aerospace electronics, etc.
By size specifications:
Diameter
- Micro Size: Diameter less than 1.00mm, suitable for extremely compact design spaces.
- Standard Size: Diameter ranging from 1.00mm to 3.00mm, the most common size range suitable for most applications.
- Large Diameter: Diameter >3.00mm, used for applications requiring larger contact area and/or higher current carrying capacity.
Length
- Customize the length according to applications, ranging from a few mm to tens of mm, It can accommodate different installation depths and contact pressure needs.
Plunger Tip Shape
- Round Head: Suitable for most standard connection needs, providing a stable contact area.
- Pointed Head: Used for precise connections such as test points or connections with smaller contact areas.
- Cup Head: Customized based on the contact to provide stable connections.
- Claw Head: Multiple-point high elasticity contact, commonly used for high-current pogo pins.
- Flat Head: Provides a larger contact area, suitable for applications requiring lower contact resistance.
Spring Force
- Spring force is also an important specification, different spring forces adapt to different mechanical and electrical performance requirements. Usually measured in grams (g) or Newtons (N), spring force directly affects contact pressure and durability.
By shapes and installation method:
- Surface Mount (SMT) Type: Suitable for surface mount technology, facilitating automated batch installation on PCBs.
- Through-Hole (DIP) Type: Requires installation through PCB holes, suitable for designs requiring through-hole connections.
- Solder Cup Type: Specifically designed for soldering and fixing, providing a more stable connection.
- High Current Type: Pogo pin with a current rating of ≥3A, with anti-rotation locking, capable of providing up to 800A high current pogo pins.
- Dual Head Type: Both ends can extend and retract, designed for solderless connections.
- Right Angle Type: Installed on the side of the PCB, best suited for space-constrained designs.
- Bending Type: Tail pin designed at various angles, suitable for different spatial scenarios and constraints.
- Threaded Type: The tail, barrel, or needle tip can be designed with different specifications of threads.
By magnetic properties:
- Non-magnetic Pogo Pin: Don't contain magnetic materials and don't rely on magnetism for connection or positioning. Widely used in applications where magnetic attraction or specific magnetic field environments are not required.
- Pogo Pin compatible with magnetic docking: They are not magnetic, but they work with magnetic connectors to achieve quick and convenient docking and positioning. Suitable for charging interfaces on wearable devices, data transfer, and charging ports on consumer electronics products. With magnetic force, users can easily place devices on charging docks or connection points without precise alignment.
- Magnetic Pogo Pin: Integrated with magnetic materials, these pogo pins can attract metal surfaces or work with magnetic docking surfaces. Used in precision instruments or devices where connection stability and correct docking need to be ensured through magnetic force.
Spec Range of Pogo Pins
Size Specifications:
- Diameter: Typically ranging from 0.50mm to 3.00mm, with the finest at 0.13mm. Choose according to space constraints and current requirements.
- Length: Customizable from 2.00mm to several tens of millimeters based on installation space and spring compression requirements.
- Tip Types: Include round, pointed, flat, claw, etc. Select based on the contact surface and compression force requirements.
Electrical Performance:
- Rated Current: Ranges from 1A to 5A or higher, up to 800A depending on pin diameter and material.
- Contact Resistance: Generally below 50 milliohms, high-quality Pogo Pins can achieve below 10 milliohms.
- Voltage Resistance: This can reach several hundred volts, depending on the design and application environment.
Materials and Surface Treatment:
- Materials: Copper alloy or stainless steel for plunger and barrel, stainless steel for springs.
- Surface Treatment: Gold plating, nickel plating, tin plating, or composite coatings to enhance conductivity and corrosion resistance.
Mechanical Performance:
- Durability: Ranges from 10,000 to 100,000 compression cycles.
- Operating Temperature Range: From -40°C to +85°C, can reach up to +125°C or higher for certain special designs suitable for extreme temperature conditions.
Installation and Configuration:
- Installation Methods: Include surface mount (SMT), through-hole (DIP), soldering, solderless, and so on.
- Arrangement Configuration: Single-use or multiple Pogo Pins combined into arrays to meet complex connection requirements.
Other Special Requirements:
- Waterproof and Dustproof: Specifically designed Pogo Pins can provide IP-rated waterproof and dustproof protection, up to IP68.
- Custom Design: We always offer customization services to design Pogo Pin according to specific application requirements.
Advantages of Pogo Pins
High Reliability:
- Stable Electrical Connection: Pogo Pin is designed to maintain stable electrical connections even under vibration or movement conditions. It is crucial for fields like mobile devices and automotive electronics.
- Durability: High-quality springs and contact materials enable Pogo Pin to withstand thousands of connection and disconnection cycles. Thus extending the pogo pin lifespan.
Flexibility and Compatibility:
- Diverse Designs and Sizes: Pogo Pins offer various diameters, lengths, and shapes to adapt to different design requirements and application scenarios.
- Easy Integration: Whether on complex circuit boards or in compact spaces, Pogo Pin can be easily integrated, providing flexible design choices.
High Performance:
- Low Contact Resistance: Pogo Pins have low contact resistance, helping to reduce energy loss and improve overall electrical performance.
- Support for High Current Transmission: Specifically designed Pogo Pin can support currents of several amperes, suitable for high-power transmission applications.
Easy Maintenance:
- Easy Replacement: When maintenance or replacement is needed, Pogo Pin can be easily removed and installed from devices, reducing maintenance costs.
- Self-Cleaning Properties: Tiny movements during connection and disconnection can help clear contaminants from contact surfaces, maintaining good electrical performance.
Strong Adaptability:
- Wide Range of Applications: From medical devices to consumer electronics, automotive to military and aerospace. Pogo Pins are suitable for various harsh environments and complex applications.
- Customization Capability: We always offer customization services, allowing the design and manufacture of Pogo Pin according to customer requirements. Further expanding their application fields.
Cost Savings:
- Reduced Manufacturing Complexity: Using Pogo Pin can simplify product design, and reduce complexity during assembly and testing processes, thereby saving costs.
- Improved Manufacturing Efficiency: Pogo Pin can accelerate assembly speed on production lines, enhancing production efficiency.
Customizations of Pogo Pins
Design Consultation and Support:
- Requirements Assessment: Dive deep into client discussions to know the customer’s requirements completely. Including working environment, required current and voltage levels, space constraints, etc.
- Design Recommendations: Provide professional design recommendations based on client requirements. Including optimal sizes, shapes, and material selections for Pogo Pin.
Customization Options:
- Size Customization: Clients can specify the length, diameter, and tip shape of Pogo Pin to adapt to specific space or connection requirements.
- Material Selection: Choose suitable materials and surface treatments, such as gold plating, nickel plating, or tin plating. Based on environment and performance requirements for improving conductivity and boosting resistance to corrosion.
- Electrical Performance: Customize Pogo Pins to meet specific current and voltage requirements, including optimizing contact resistance and voltage resistance.
- Mechanical Characteristics: Adjust the mechanical properties of the spring as needed to ensure appropriate contact pressure and durability.
Rapid Prototyping and Testing:
- Sample Production: Quickly produce samples based on customized designs for client evaluation and testing.
- Performance Testing: Conduct comprehensive performance tests, including electrical performance, mechanical durability, and environmental adaptability tests. To ensure that customized Pogo Pin meets specifications.
Production and Quality Control:
- Small Batch Production: Provide small batch production services to support early-stage development and testing of projects.
- Quality Assurance: Implement rigorous quality control processes to ensure that each customized Pogo Pin meets high standards.
After-Sales Support:
- Technical Support: Offer technical support to assist clients in resolving any issues encountered during use.
- Ongoing Services: Maintain continuous supply and support for mass production projects, including production adjustments and iterative updates support.
Valued Customers of Pogo Pins
Consumer Electronics Manufacturers:
- Smartphones and Tablets: Used for charging and data transfer interfaces.
- Wearable Devices: Examples include health-monitoring wristbands and smartwatches, where Pogo Pin is used for charging and data sync.
- Home Entertainment Systems: Such as game controller charging docks.
Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturers:
- Base Stations and Network Equipment: Used for stable connections between modules to ensure reliable signal transmission.
- Wireless Communication Devices: Including routers, and switches, for internal connections.
Automotive Industry:
- In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems: Used to connect displays, control units, etc.
- Sensors and Actuators: In various sensor systems within vehicles, Pogo Pins ensure stable signal transmission.
- Electric Vehicles: Used in charging docks and other charging-related equipment.
Medical Equipment Manufacturers:
- Portable Medical Devices: Such as portable ECG machines, and blood glucose meters, where Pogo Pins are used for charging and data transfer.
- Medical Instruments: In various medical testing and treatment devices, are used to connect sensors and other electronic components.
Industrial and Automation:
- Production Line Equipment: Used for quick connections of sensors and controllers on production lines.
- Industrial Robots: Used on robot interchangeable tool heads for fast swapping and connection.
Aerospace and Defense:
- Satellites and Avionics: Pogo Pins are used to connect high-reliability avionics equipment.
- Military Communication Equipment: Ensuring stable operation and signal transmission in harsh environments.
Test and Measurement Equipment Manufacturers:
- Electronic Testing Instruments: In test PCB boards and measurement equipment, Pogo Pins ensure precise signal transmission.
- Programming Devices: Used to connect programming devices and circuit boards for firmware writing.
Benefits of Pogo Pins
Enhanced Product Reliability:
The spring-loaded mechanism of the Pogo Pin maintains stable mechanical and electrical contacts. Ensure reliable connections even under vibration or impact conditions. This is particularly crucial for applications, such as automotive, aerospace, and medical devices.
Improved Product Durability:
Due to their self-cleaning properties, Pogo Pins naturally remove contaminants from the contact surfaces with each connection. Reduces contact resistance and extends product lifespan.
Design Flexibility:
The diverse designs of Pogo Pins, including various sizes, shapes, and spring forces, provide great flexibility in product design. Allows them to be used in various space-constrained conditions to meet different functional requirements.
Simplified Assembly Processes:
Pogo Pins support rapid assembly without complex soldering processes, speeding up production efficiency and lowering production costs. Especially in SMT applications, Pogo Pin can be assembled automatically using standard pick-and-place equipment.
Easy Maintenance and Upgrades:
For electronic products requiring regular maintenance or potential upgrades, such as testing equipment or modular electronic systems. Pogo Pins simplify component disassembly and replacement, greatly improving the convenience of maintenance and upgrades.
Support for High-Performance Applications:
Pogo Pins are designed to support high-frequency transmission and high-current connections. This makes them ideal for high-performance electronic devices, such as high-speed data communication equipment and high-power charging applications.
Reduced Design and Production Costs:
Pogo Pins can reduce the complexity of product design, and decrease the demand for precision mating parts. Thus reducing material and processing costs to some extent. Additionally, their high durability and reliability also reduce post-sale maintenance and replacement costs.
Customer Feedback of Pogo Pins
Smart Wearable Devices
- Case: A smartwatch manufacturer from Germany faced challenges in improving the charging efficiency and connection stability of their watches. With our customized Pogo Pins in the watch's charging interface, they achieve a fast and reliable connection with the charging dock.
- The product manager: "After adopting Johoty's Pogo Pins, the charging efficiency of our smartwatches significantly improved. User feedback also indicated that the connection process is both fast and stable. This improvement is crucial in enhancing our product's market competitiveness."
Automotive Electronic Systems
- Case: A UK car manufacturer needed to provide a reliable and easy-to-maintain sensor connection solution for their new-generation electric vehicles. The customer utilized our Pogo Pins in the vehicle's control modules and sensors. This ensured stable signal transmission even under harsh road conditions.
- The chief engineer: "The introduction of Johoty's Pogo Pins has greatly enhanced the performance and reliability of our electric vehicles. They not only improve the overall safety of the vehicles but also simplify the maintenance process. Thanks a lot!"
Medical Equipment
- Case: A customer, an Israeli medical equipment manufacturer, was developing a portable blood glucose monitor that required high accuracy and reliability. By using our Pogo Pins in the device's data transmission interface, the customer ensured accurate and fast data transmission. And, it is easy to use.
- The head of R&D: "Your Pogo Pins not only ensure that our blood glucose monitor provides accurate and reliable readings. But also greatly enhances the patient's user experience through its excellent durability and ease of use."
High-End Smartphone Fast Charging
- Case: The customer, is a smartphone manufacturer from the USA. They aimed to provide a faster and more reliable charging solution for their smartphone series to meet the growing demand. The customer adopted our high-performance Pogo Pins as the charging interface. These Pogo Pins feature high corrosion resistance and excellent electrical conductivity. This enables support for higher charging currents, thus achieving fast charging.
- Product Development Manager: "By integrating Johoty's Pogo Pin into our smartphone design, we achieved charging speeds faster than ever before, improved the durability of the charging interface, and overall user satisfaction."
Reliable Connection for Aerospace Electronic Equipment
- Case: A US-based aerospace electronic equipment supplier needed to provide a high-reliability, easy-to-maintain connection solution for their customer aircraft's electronic equipment. The customer adopted our custom-designed Pogo Pins, which can ensure stable electrical connections in harsh flight environments. And facilitate quick and easy equipment replacement and upgrades.
- Electronics Engineering Supervisor: "Johoty's Pogo Pin has significantly improved our electronic products' maintenance efficiency and reliability. Now, even in complex flight conditions, we can ensure the optimal performance of the equipment."
Applications of Pogo Pins
Smartphones and Tablets
Pogo pins offer a durable and efficient connection solution for device charging ports and data transfer. Especially when applied in magnetic charging connectors.
Wearable Devices
In wearable technologies, like smartwatches and health trackers, Pogo Pin is used for charging and data synchronization. Enables more compact and waterproof device designs.
Medical Equipment
In portable diagnostic instruments, monitoring devices, and other medical equipment. Pogo pins ensure precise and reliable data transmission, this is critical for improving the medical service standards.
Automotive Electronics
Used for connections to in-vehicle internal sensors, control systems, etc. Pogo Pins are particularly suitable for automotive environments due to their high reliability and shock resistance.
Testing and Measurement Equipment
Pogo Pins are widely used in circuit board test fixtures, such as test beds, and multi-point testing instruments. This provides fast and repeatable electrical connections.
E-cigarettes
Pogo Pins are used as charging contact points in e-cigarette charging bases, offering a convenient and reliable charging solution.
Military and Defense
In the military communication equipment and control systems require high reliability and resilience to harsh environments. Pogo Pins ensure stable electrical connections.
Aerospace
Used in satellites and aircraft, Pogo Pins connect critical electronic systems, ensuring mission success even under extreme conditions.
Consumer Electronics Accessories
For wireless charging bases of accessories like trendy mice, versatile keyboards, and other peripherals. Pogo pins offer a convenient and quick power transmission method.
Robotics Technology
In modular components of industrial robots, service robots, etc. Pogo Pins are used for fast replacement and upgrades, significantly enhancing flexibility and maintenance efficiency.
