Transparent touch panel switch
CA 1330223 C · Owner: Southwall Technologies Inc. · Inventors: Kuhlman, Bruce
Overview
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An improved transparent touch panel membrane switch for use and shielding in front of a usual display terminal is disclosed. The switch is made up of a plurality of plastic sheets arrayed substantially parallel to one another in a sandwich configuration. The outermost of the sheets has an antireflective hardcoat. Two adjacent but spaced apart inner sheets provide the electrical contacts through transparent low reflectance conductive metal coatings. The switch additionally contains a further inner antireflective transparent electrically conductive coating which provides shielding against the passage of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference through the membrane switch. The layers …
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- Granted June 14, 1994. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 14, 2011.
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