Telecommunications
Southco's CEMA positioning technology is ideal for the following applications in the Telecommunications Industry:

• Bistable flip mechanisms for clamshell style phones
• Miniaturized bistable mechanisms for cosmetic flips in mobile telecommunication device
• Specially configured friction hinges for web phones and internet phones

Patented bistable mechanism used in the Handspring Treo to enable flipped opening and detented closing of the cover.

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Patented bistable mechanism used to enable a 90 gram cover/battery pack to be flipped open and detented closed in a clamshell mobile phone.

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Miniaturized, general purpose bistable mechanism that can be used in mobile phones or other applications in need of reliable, lightweight mechanisms for rotating plastic keycap covers or other similarly weighted objects.

Similar designs available with outside diameters as small as 3.0mm.