Product category:
Touchscreens and Touch Sensors
News Release from: Zytronic | Subject: Zypos
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 May 2005
Touch sensors target cost-critical
applications
Zypos is the latest version of Zytronic's highly durable, drift-free and internationally award-winning Zytouch projected capacitive technology (PCT) touch sensors.
Zypos is the latest version of Zytronic's highly durable, drift-free and internationally award-winning Zytouch projected capacitive technology (PCT) touch sensors Zypos will enable PCT sensing to bring all the advantages of Zytouch to higher volume, cost-critical touchscreen-based applications including retail and gaming environments, but at a lower price point than previously possible
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Apr 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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PCT eliminates all of these problems by providing a robust, reliable and calibration-free, nonsurface active glass fronted touch solution.
PCT is based on the principle of embedding an array of micro-fine sensing wires within a multilayer laminated screen behind a protective front surface, ensuring that the sensing medium is well-protected from accidental and malicious damage.
This technology is extremely robust and reliable, offers one of the industry's highest light transmission characteristics and can be operated with a gloved or ungloved hand.
PCT has unlimited touch life, is drift-free, and so requires minimal maintenance.
Through Zytouch, PCT is currently employed in a wide range of touchscreen-based applications that require high-end solutions, such as public access information kiosks, jukeboxes, ATMs, gaming machines and medical and industrial applications.
Zypos significantly lowers materials costs and has fewer assembly processes than Zytouch, resulting in a sensor thickness of approximately 3mm, but the fact that the sensing medium is still embedded, rather than surface active, means that Zypos can still offer all the inherent benefits that Zytouch offers.
These include a fast and accurate response time (20ms maximum) and continual performance that remains unaffected by surface contaminants such as grease and debris, severe surface degradation, common household cleaning agents and high moisture environments.
Zypos can also be operated with a gloved and ungloved finger and is drift-free, so no recalibration is required.
The unique sensing characteristics of the Zypos sensor eliminate the need for an operating pressure and so operators are not required to use a credit card or other potentially damaging implements to activate the sensor.
The Zypos driver software is fully compatible with Windows 98SE, 2000, Me, XP, XP-E, CE and Linux.
Glass and polycarbonate solutions include clear, antiglare and both chemically and thermally toughened options.
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