Consumer Electronics
Fully Integrated Sealing, Protection, and Shielding Solutions
Boyd is an ideal partner in designing and manufacturing fully integrated sealing, protection, insulation, and shielding solutions for mobile electronics to meet ever increasing performance requirements. Our extensive expertise, manufacturing, and customer support helps reduce design cycle time with rapid prototyping capabilities, assembly time by combining multiple components into a single assembly for final production, and landed costs by decreasing OEM’s managed vendor list.
Smaller, Lighter Consumer Demands
Mobile electronics have become a cornerstone of our modern lifestyle with smartphones, tablets, and notebooks in countless offices and homes across the globe. Consumers consistently demand thinner and lighter products that are more powerful and connect faster than ever before.
Challenging User Environments
Consumers use their mobile electronics in nearly every environment, accelerating the need for adequate sealing solutions against liquid immersion and particulates. Consumers expose mobile electronics to an onslaught of environmental hazards like spilled liquids, dust, and dirt as they have become integral in our active lifestyles.
What is Inside Advanced Display and Touchscreen Solutions?
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Precision Converting Solutions
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Mobile Electronics Sealing Solutions
Boyd’s broad offering of IP seals, gaskets, and advanced adhesive assemblies ensure sensitive components like cameras, sensors, speakers, microphones, and PCBs stay safe and sealed away from environmental hazards that can hinder reliable performance and the excellent customer experience you want. With advanced rotary converting manufacturing technology in Class 100 cleanrooms, Boyd has pristine operational environments to provide particulate-free components for the most sensitive applications with the highest visual and aesthetic demands. Boyd’s innovative sealing solutions enhance operational efficiency with access to creative new manufacturing processes as well as maximize product reliability and customer satisfaction with long term sealing performance.
Mobile Electronics Thermal Solutions
Consumers demand electronics to be fully mobile with more processing power and better performance. Smaller products with higher performance face the challenge of dramatically increasing power density. Excessive heat damages internal components and can cause products to perform poorly, shorten product lifespans, and put consumers at risk for heat-related injuries. To ensure long mobile electronic lifetimes, effective thermal management solutions must dissipate heat efficiently and safely. Dissipating heat more quickly and effectively enables greater power density designs, which either means smaller dimensional footprint of devices or higher-powered internal components resulting in smaller handheld devices. Graphite Heat Spreaders are an effective method to passively spread heat away from critical components in high performance mobile devices. With high precision converting and the utmost care in handling challenging graphite materials, Boyd is well-equipped to fabricate heat spreaders for ultra-thin, next generation mobile devices.
Mobile Electronics Protection Solutions
Most mobile electronics must withstand daily use and wear, which means they require high performance solutions that protect sensitive electronics, sensors, and screens them from the elements. Mobile electronics suffer from exposure to mechanical shock, vibration, EMI and RFI, sand, dust and dirt, all of which require adequate protection to mitigate risk to the operational stability and safety of the device.
Boyd’s Shielding and Insulation Solutions
Boyd’s superb precision converting capabilities produce fully integrated protection solutions specifically designed for mobile electronic products. Our engineering team can match the right materials, adhesives, geometries, and production processes to manufacture high quality and cost-effective protection assemblies with tight tolerance control in an easy-to-assemble delivery format.
Appliance Electronicification
Global electronification continues to gain momentum as more and more products become electrified and/or “smart”. Touch screens, advanced electronics, accessible voice controls, and wireless connectivity are being integrated into everything from watches to refrigerators to entire homes or offices.
As this trend grows, the world is seeing devices, displays, and interactivity that was previously impossible. Home theatres contain huge OLED displays offering 8k resolution, sound systems generate louder and clearer acoustics, and entertainment consoles bring us the latest in interactive games, virtual reality, and streaming content. Homes and offices utilize a vast array of technologies including personal computers, high resolution monitors, thin clients, notebooks, and tablets, many of which double as part of our home entertainment systems or as virtual offices and conference rooms. These smart homes and offices include interconnected appliances, security systems, and communication systems, making up the complete Smart Home Environment.
What is Inside Advanced Display and Touchscreen Solutions?
The increasing complexity of consumer electronics requires that manufacturers seal and protect sensitive components from unpredictable environments and cool rising heat loads to ensure long product lifetimes and adequate user safety. Boyd integrates many of these components into single assemblies, creating comprehensive, cost effective, fully integrated solutions that are smaller, lighter weight, and more reliable.
Consumer Electronics Thermal Solutions
Consumer electronics and products have more features and functionality than ever before due to the addition of more processing power, sensors, motors, batteries, cameras, and other devices. The heat from these components often compounds and can put device reliability and consumer safety at risk. By implementing an effective thermal management solution, products from gaming consoles to blenders to notebook computers and high performance digital cameras can last longer without touch temperatures increasing beyond safe levels.
Boyd’s technologists are experts in designing, validating, and manufacturing effective thermal solutions for high performance consumer electronics. Boyd engineering teams have decades of experience addressing a wide range of environmental conditions, use cases, and product requirements utilizing our refined design for manufacture (DFM) process. Thermal solutions for consumer electronics include natural convection heat sinks for quiet cooling, high performance heat pipe zipper fin heat sinks for heavy heat loads, and low profile blowers and ultra-thin vapor chambers for small form factor cooling.
Consumer Electronics Sealing Solutions
Many new products, like kitchen appliances, home security products, and HVAC systems, integrate electronics to enhance efficiency and touch screens to improve the user interface. Boyd is experienced in converting optically clear adhesive solutions into integrated display gaskets to prevent unwanted fluid exposure while still maintaining optical resolution and touch screen functionality.
Systems like these, especially for outdoor use or use around liquid systems, require effective sealing solutions to keep electronics from shorting. Boyd’s O-Rings, seals, gaskets, hoses, and rubber molded components are ideal for sealing out unwanted fluids at the lowest total cost to our customers and the end user.
Consumer Electronics Protection Solutions
Boyd has a broad range of protection materials and products that enable us to convert the right product to protect your consumer electronics. We’re able to integrate UL94 approved electrical isolation materials into a broad range of multipurpose assemblies like product identification, badging, hardware protection and airflow management.
Boyd produces acoustic meshes and insulation ideal for applications that protect audio equipment without distorting sound quality or quieting noise from washing machines. Boyd uses a wide range of materials to produce dampers that improve acoustics as well as protect sensitive equipment from noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) or shock. Our protective films keep surfaces scratch free between assembly, packing, and final delivery to the end user.
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