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News Release from: InPlay Technologies, Duraswitch Division | Subject: Large-Key PushGate
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 April 2003
Big buttons take control of treadmill
Patented Large-Key PushGate technology has been designed into a treadmill control panel.
Patented Large-Key PushGate technology has been designed into a treadmill control panel Tim Kuhn, Vice President Business Development for Duraswitch noted, "One of our domestic licensed manufacturers won the attention of a prominent company in the fitness equipment industry by introducing the Large-Key PushGate technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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This pushbutton technology offers tactile feedback across oversized buttons.
The entire area of a large-size button is active with a distinct tactile 'click', so a user in motion does not have to worry about hitting the switch in the centre of the button".
Duraswitch announced a patent on this unique technology in June 2002.
An expansion of the patented PushGate pushbutton switch, the Large-Key PushGate was designed specifically for exercise equipment panels as well as industrial keyboards, vending machines, emergency stop buttons and octane buttons on gas pumps.
"The Large-Key PushGate addresses a need for a large area, tactile switch for the flat-panel market that other switch technologies have struggled to achieve.
This treadmill application is a new design review this year, and one of the first applications of Duraswitch technology in the fitness equipment industry", Kuhn continued.
Design reviews are submitted to Duraswitch through its licensees, and generally represent the step before a product goes to prototype and production.
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