Product category:
Touchscreens and Touch Sensors
News Release from: Wasp | Subject: Resistive touch screens
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 February 2003
Resistive touch screens don't have to be
fragile
Setting a new trend in the manufacture of resistive touch screens, WASP is now offering its products with a choice of back panel material.
Setting a new trend in the manufacture of resistive touch screens, WASP is now offering its products with a choice of back panel material Normally, resistive touch screens are only mounted to a glass back panel, which, due to its fragility, is not always the ideal material in certain applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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WASP is using the specialist manufacturing techniques developed for resistive touch screens to print special inks onto a polyester material to create electroluminescent (EL) panels.
However, following new developments, WASP can now offer the screens mounted on to acrylic and polyester.
The main advantage of using acrylic is that while the strength is maintained, breakage is no longer a problem.
Not only is the acrylic a lot more resistant to breaking - either accidentally during the manufacturing or installation process or deliberately when in situ - it is easier to handle, and WASP's own internal laser cutting machines are able to machine the front panels to high tolerance specifications to suit customer requirements.
The use of these new back panel materials gives the design engineer easy access to quick samples but also gives total flexibility on production quantities where WASP has the control of machined back panels.
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