PROJECTIVE CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREEN SOLUTIONS

Whether your project requires single touch or multi-touch with gesture, Touch International’s MulTI-Touch and Digital Switch projected capacitive touch screen technologies deliver interactive solutions for your touch screen needs.

Touch International designs and manufactures custom MulTI-Touch and Digital Switch projected capacitive touch screen products for a wide variety of industries and applications including military, medical, aerospace and industrial. Whether our touch screens are used in touch enabled military land navigation systems, cockpit instruments, ATMs or handheld medical devices, Touch International’s touch technologies deliver outstanding optics and unmatched durability.

In the short time since the introduction of projected capacitive touch screens in the iPhone, a myriad of construction methods have been developed. All projected capacitive touch screen designs have two key features in common – the sensing mechanism (ITO layer) that lies behind the touch surface and the use of no moving parts. The most common design incorporates the simple concept shown above.

Mutual capacitance is now the more common projected capacitive approach and makes use of the fact that most conductive objects are able to hold a charge if they are very close together. If another conductive object, in this case a finger, bridges the gap, the charge field is interrupted and detected by the microcontroller.

Projected capacitive touch screens are “scanned”, meaning most of these touch screens are made up of a matrix of rows and columns that are “read” one by one to get a reading or count. To get an exact coordinate, the results from several row/column intersections are read and the counts used to triangulate the exact touch location.