Special Wear Resistant Horns
Titanium ultrasonic horns often wear faster than desired when used for ultrasonic staking, especially against chromed bosses. This leads to high consumable tooling and tool change costs. Plus, worn horns cannot form the plastic boss correctly.
Traditionally, carbide coatings were applied to horns or threaded tips to increase their wear resistance. However, carbide coatings are expensive and tips are unreliable in production. Today, AMS uses affordable, solid, wear restant horns that last dramatically longer than carbide coated horns.
