Case Study: SINGLE METAL STAMPED PART mic-tec.comIntroduction A leading car alarm manufacturer approached Micro with a challenge. The way their car alarms worked wasn’t sensitive enough as originally designed. In fact, the entire design of the core sensor was illogical and inefficient. The brief was simple. Make it multi-axis and as sensitive as possible, so that if there is any kind of shock on any axis, the alarm will sound. The legacy design relied on a flexible PCB that was ill designed for the teak and left the unit rough and fell short of the application’s expectations. The existing design housed a circuit board with a snake pattern cut out to add flexibility, and create motion that could be felt to signal the sensor. At the end of the snake pattern, there was a crude p

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