From now on, please visit the new blg (http://www.metal-domes.com/blog/) and the current one will be closed. Thanks for all the friends for your support in the past months! You have told me so much and is welcome to continue to do it in future.
Thanks and best wishes
Yours Respectfully,
Peter
The homepage of Best Hardware Co., Ltd have been changed a little in this week and work smoothly. The last version was launched in June 6, 2006, and many persons gave us a lot of advice. The major improvement of this version is showing as follows:
1) The size of font
This version use Verdan, 11 pixes, instead of Thoma 10 pixes. And right now, I hope everybody and read the content more conveniently, and maybe don’t need to take a magnifer. 
It’s no wonder that oneday I’ll write an article to talk about what a Metal dome is.
Frankly, sometimes some friends will ask me the following question:
“what’s your product? “
I said: “Metal dome“
” What? Metal dome? Do you mean the steel dome? What’s the usage of it? ”
” The metal dome is majorly used in membrane switch, mobile, mp3\mp4 player, control panels and so on…. …”
Even though after my explanation someone who whom konw little on our industry will be also confused, they explain the whole word in the synonymy words and such seperated words, in their own ways. So they will thought:‘metal’ stands for ‘steel’ and ‘dome’ for housetop or roof, so ‘metal dome’ is ‘a dome (housetop) made of steel’. (in in Chinese, it’s named “金属圆屋顶”. )
Oh, my God! A little small ‘metal dome‘ in my eyes then becomes a big ‘a dome (housetop) made of steel’? Hup, How wonderful, Inconceivability! But do you know how much the difference between them? Let’s take a brief look at these pictures.
— Five BASIC LAYERS OF A MEMBRANE SWITCH
A Membrane Switch can be as simple as a two layer construction or a multi-layered complicated assembly. Regardless, as a momentary switch, must contain a Membrane Layer and a Static Layer.
All other layers required for decoration, backlighting, adhesive, tactile response and rigid support are all optional.
A short explanation and example of each layer: