Multi-touch projected capacitive input system with glass surface
Multi-touch technology, which is familiar due to its use in smartphones and tablet PCs, has been further developed for industrial use and offers the potential for a major leap in innovation with regards to operating concepts in machine construction and industrial automation. Touch gestures such as such as spreading fingers to zoom or flicking to scroll quickly are evaluated by the application software. The PCI panel becomes an intuitive and completely integrated operating concept. In the industrial sector, touch gestures find use for example when “flicking through” possible settings and when searching a document for specific information. Further possibilities are navigating by flicking through overviews and magnifying process photographs and characteristic curves using the spread gesture.
Glass offers many options in ergonomic design because of its double-sided printing and the design of customer-specific geometries as well as a variety of surface structures. Gapless bonding to a carrier plate or within a housing allows the continuous mechanical protection of the glass edges and simplifies assembly of the display and its electronics. The units are available with diagonal screen sizes ranging from 3.5 to 22 inches, with controller options through USB, RS232, I2C and SPI.
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