Bringing a 200 year old concept into the future
The inspiration for the Snap Audio button comes from the robust four part snap fastener (cap, stud, socket, eyelet) that has been used in the clothing industry for over 200 years helping children dress themselves.
The Snap Audio Button converts the socket and cap to hold a left, right, return signals that provides stereo audio for several years.
The last improvement on the 3.5mm stereo jack was over 50 years ago when it was made smaller. Audio jacks on the aircraft are easily damage by the 3.5mm stereo jack if they are not pulled out straight. The fact is that once a new audio socket is installed, it can be damaged by the next person to use it. This happens just by bumping into it or when a person stands up with their headset on, causing the headset pin to break off inside the audio jack damaging the audio jack. As airlines optimize their aircraft to fly several routes a day and with engineers focused on flight safety checks; the engineers do not have enough time to inspect and replace failed audio jacks. This means once a audio jack is broken, it may be several flights before it is replaced, upsetting countless people.
Snap Audio button delivers stereo audio that both the airline and their passengers can rely on while increasing the life span of the headsets for long term cost savings.
Here is our Snap Jack connector next to a traditional 3.5mm stereo plug
The Snap Jack backlit in red which can be changed to meet customer requests.
Here is our concept arm with the Snap Jack on the side and in front with a robust stereo plug.
Four key benefits over the conventional 3.5mm stereo jacks:
Low profile with an ergonomic design
Facilitates separation by a light force applied from virtually any direction versus the linear extraction required by the conventional stereo jack.
A patented
snap design
The 3.5 pin manufacturing process comes with inherent flaws – largely due to wear and tear on tooling equipment. The patented snap design has no such issue with, ensuring exceptional product consistency.
improved connectivity with outside forces
Pressure on X,Y and Z axis secure connections without inducing damage versus the conventional design jack which is only designed to to handle linear insertion or extraction.
proven and accepted design in use globally
The Snap design has been in use for over 200 years, the intuitive design is already accepted around the world – the novelty is that we’ve made it function as a multicore connector.