Consumables are primarily contactors, the part that presses against the chips that electrical current goes through. They also held patents on cantilever contactors and several others(pics can be seen on older investor presentations).
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Cohu has representatives in most Fabs and or test contract centers where their handlers are located. The handlers typically run 24/7/363. They consumables category also includes maintenance services and the sale of spare parts. While being given a tour of their Poway facility they had all kinds of air and electric solenoids being tested till they quit.Hundreds of thousands of cycles.
Their installed owner base is literally thousands of handlers across the world. They do get outdated/replaced with software issues. One of the great values of buying Xcerra was a huge installed owner base of gravity test handlers which came from Xcerra's purchase of Micro-test from Dover.
Cohu bought Kita, in Japan,which they saw a lot of these being installed onto their handlers:
Spring Probes for All Your Test Requirements
KITA, is a Cohu company and specializes in the manufacture of spring probes contacts used in final test contactors, probe cards, Printed Circuit Board test and contactors sold to customers worldwide. Spring probes are used in ATE test fixtures, ATE test interfaces, burn-in test sockets, semiconductor test sockets, LCD test fixtures, automotive industry, battery connections and kelvin testing. Plating is available in gold, hard gold, palladium cobalt, nickel and copper.
KITA Manufacturing Co. Ltd. based in Osaka, Japan, has over 45 years experience designing and manufacturing spring probes and has shipped over 300,000,000 probes to customers world-wide.
Kita USA division specializes in design and manufacture of custom probes to meet your exact requirements. The US division continues to introduce innovated solutions for interface connectors and custom probe blocks.
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