Totally sealed body construction prevents contact contamination and allows time and money-saving automated soldering and washing. Award-winning STC contact mechanism with benefits unavailable in conventional mechanisms smooth, positive detent actuation, increased contact stability and unparalleled logic-level reliability. Tape-reel and stick-tube packaging allow rapid automated placement of surface mount devices.

Heat resistant resin used for housing, base, and actuator of SMD allows vapor phase and infrared reflow soldering. Molded-in, epoxy sealed terminals lock out flux, solvents and other contaminants. Gull-wing terminals on SMDs provide mechanical stability during soldering and simplified solder joint inspection.