3C Electronic Zirconia Oxide ceramic back plate machining HIT Achievements HIT Highlights & Comparison Industry Application Difficulties in Machining Play Video Back to list Zirconia Oxide ceramic back plate machining - HIT Achievements Picture before machining Performace of Zirconia oxide ceramic back plate machining Comparison between Non-Ultrasonic and HIT Ultrasonic Highlights of HIT Ultrasonic Machining Moodule: Better Quality 50% Processing time 3 times tool life Zirconia Oxide ceramic back plate machining - HIT Highlights & Comparison HIT Comparison and Highlights Method HIT Ultrasonic CNC EDM Equipment CNC Normal diamond tools HIT Ultrasonic machining module CNC Normal diamond tools EDM equipment Electrolyte for assisting zirconia oxide vaporization Disadvantages Relatively better than two methods behind Extreme hardness and toughness requires high- cost tools Low efficiency and short tool life, hard to remove materials and control the micro-cracks in structure via accurate cutting force Hard to performance in the practical case, most are still in research and development stage. High equipment cost and extremely low efficiency. Difficult to discharge electricity and remove materials stably. (Zirconia oxide is an insulator.) Advantages Cost-effective solution to significantly enhancing CNC machining performance High frequency help prevent the micro-cracks and reduce cutting resistance. While enhancing surface quality in rough machining, the finishing procedure can be reduced. Can achieve precise quality demands, especially effective in drilling. Relatively cheaper than others The most common method to process No cutting force and tool life problem Can achieve precise quality demands Zirconia Oxide ceramic back plate machining - Industry Application Bearing more strengthen mechanical properties than Alumina oxide, Zirconia oxide is another popular type of inert advanced ceramic. Unlike alumina oxide, it is four times tougher and shatter-proof. Also, it equips stable chemical properties, extreme hardness, thermal resistance and corrosion resistance. Commonly used for industrial applications, zirconia oxide is made for bearing, machine parts, and tooling. Recently, as the trend for 5G era has emerged, advanced ceramics has been all on the rage. With the excellent mechanical properties, low interference of 5G high frequency, sensitiveness to fingerprint identification, great texture to human hand, zirconia ceramic is the most suitable materials for mobile back plate in 5G era. From zirconia ceramic plate to ceramic back plate, HIT ultrasonic machining module assisted conventional CNC machining to prolong three times of tool life as well as reducing half of the processing time in the same quality standard. Zirconia Oxide ceramic back plate machining - Difficulties in Machining After sintering, the volume of zirconia ceramic will shrink irregularly and cannot assure the accuracy of size and surface quality will be the same as the machining performance before sintering. To prevent inaccuracy, zirconia oxide ceramic needs to process after sintering. The most common way to process zirconia oxide is CNC grinding and polishing. As above description of alumina oxide, the extreme hardness also causes difficulties in zirconia oxide CNC machining. Tools for zirconia oxide machining require sintered diamond tools or CBN tools and diamond wheels for finishing. Expensive cost for tools and short tool life are the common failing when it comes to advanced ceramic machining. The machining allowance of zirconia machining requires to be 100 times greater than metal machining due to the high demands in precision features and its hardness. This often results in high material cost and low efficiency.