| ign="center"> | | | | Rubber keypads can be customized to meet the |
| A keypad is a set of buttons that are arranged in | | | | consumerâs needs. Pigments can be |
| a block that usually has numbers and other | | | | added to natural silicone rubber to form various |
| symbols on the buttons. Keypads usually are | | | | colors that can be used to make a vibrantly |
| made from hard, cold plastic or metal; however, | | | | colorful keypad. The contact resistance of the |
| in the last few years consumers are seeing many | | | | rubber keypad can also be customized based on |
| keypads that are made from rubber. Rubber | | | | the customers needs. |
| keypads, also known as elastomeric keypads, can | | | | A regular keypad works by using a mechanical |
| be colorful and are much nicer to the touch than | | | | switch that is triggered when a key is stroked. |
| their plastic counterparts. Rubber keypads are | | | | The consumer may be worried a rubber keypad |
| soft and comfortable to use, they are also | | | | may not work as well as a traditional plastic |
| flexible; therefore, they are not easily broken. | | | | keypad; however, rubber keypads are made |
| Silicone rubber, which is very durable, flexible, heat | | | | using something called a pill that acts as a switch |
| resistant, weather resistant and non stainable is | | | | contact. The resistance of the pill can be changed |
| used to make rubber keypads. | | | | making the custom silicone keypad just as reliable |
| Rubber keypads are keypads made of rubber | | | | as a regular keypad. Rubber keypads use a few |
| silicone that can be customized to fit the needs of | | | | different kinds of pills; however, the carbon pill is |
| the customer. Rubber keypads have been around | | | | the most reliable and lasts the longest. |
| for quite sometime; however, in the last 10 years | | | | Rubber keypads are the way of the future for |
| the demand for rubber keypads has grown | | | | the keypad. Rubber keypads are a low cost |
| greatly. Almost all cellular phones today have | | | | solution for consumers and industrial electronic |
| rubber keypads. | | | | companies. Rubber keypads are light weight and |
| Today rubber keypads are being used in many | | | | feel nice to the touch. Instead of the hard feel of |
| products that at one time were only made with | | | | plastic or metal on the fingers one feels the soft |
| plastic or metal such as remote controls for | | | | touch of rubber silicone. Rubber keypads are also |
| televisions, remote controls for stereos, remote | | | | nice because they are much more water |
| controls for DVD players and anything else that | | | | resistant than their plastic counterparts. Rubber |
| might use a remote control. Rubber keypads are | | | | keypads are also dust resistant. Another |
| also being used for electronic toys and games, | | | | wonderful thing about rubber keypads is that the |
| calculators, combination locks, telephones and | | | | consumer can design his own customized keypad |
| cellular phones. Rubber keypads are also being | | | | and have it built just for him. The customized |
| used today in switch mechanisms such as controls | | | | rubber keypad can include different colors and |
| for a car stereo which are mounted on the | | | | even LED lights behind the keypad for vibrant |
| steering wheel of the car. | | | | beautiful colored keys that light up. |