Product Description
Conductive Vinyl Tile Antistatic PVC Flooring ESD Floor Tiles ESD
Vinyl Flooring Sheets
ESD vinyl flooring is widely used in clean rooms, manufacturing & assembly workshops
of electronic products, hospitals, data centers & computer rooms,
and other areas that require an anti-static environment. There are
two kinds of ESD vinyl flooring, ESD tile and ESD sheet. Both tile
and sheet are homogeneous structures, and electronic resistance can
meet both conductive(10^4-10^6Ω) and
static-dissipative(10^6-10^9Ω).The difference in the production process of tile and sheet
determines the difference in the implementation of conductivity.
Tiles utilize a conductive network electrostatically formed by the
interface of plastic particles. It ensures permanent conductive
properties.
The ESD sheet inserts carbon-encapsulated granules throughout the
whole thickness, and a conductive backing is attached, providing
optimum and consistent conductive properties.
How Does a Static-Control Floor Provide a Path to Ground?In the manufacturing process, ESD floor tiles are loaded with
conductive elements, such as carbon, graphite or particles coated
with metals, that provide electrical conductivity. When the floor
becomes electrically charged, these conductive elements act as an
electrical chain, conducting electricity from the surface of the
floor through its entire thickness. Static-control flooring is
installed over an electrically conductive underlayment, such as
conductive copper foils or carbon-loaded adhesive.
The underlayment forms a conductive ground plane that unifies all
the contiguously-installed tiles in the room. Copper grounding
strips, attached to the underlayment, are connected to either an
electrical outlet or an earth ground such as a steel I-beam or a
grounding rod. This electrical connection allows static to complete
its circuit and flow safely to ground. The static generated when
people walk on the ESD floor flows at a controlled rate through the
conductive elements in the floor, across the underlayment, to the
copper strips, to ground. Instead of remaining on the floor’s
surface or moving through humans to whatever they touch, static is
drawn downward, toward ground, where it can no longer wreak havoc.
