PCAP Sensors

Multi-Touch PCAP Touch Screen Sensors

PCAP Sensors

Projected Capacitive (PCAP) touch screens offer the user friendly multi-touch experience, associated with smartphones and tablets, operating with very light touch through a highly durable glass surface.

A D Metro’s projected capacitive touch screen kits provide a high quality Glass on Glass sensor construction bundled with a discrete controller board, for commercial applications.

A D Metro’s PCAP innovations include a patented group controller, where a common controller serves a range of screen sizes to simplify design and reduce inventory costs. The controller offers USB-HID compatibility with major operating systems, simplified product development and accelerated time to market.

Supporting Documents

Datasheet

PCAP Integration Guide

Featured PCAP Sensors

Support

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Product Features

Multi-touch (up to 10 point) operation
Light touch activation with smooth gestures
High quality construction – 2 layer glass
High light transmission and image clarity
Durability: scratch, abrasion and vandal resistant
Common group controllers
USB HID compatibility

Technical Specifications

Standard Sizes:	4″ to 55″
Input Device:	Finger
Surface Hardness:	6.5 Mohs
Temperature:	Operating: -10°C to +60°C* Storage: -10°C to +65°C*
Enclosure Compatibility:	NEMA 4, 12, IP65
Transmittance:	≥85%

*Technical specifications apply to standard products and are subject to change without notice. Product performance will be subject to suitable installation and mounting. Consult manufacturer for technical drawings, best practices for installation and mounting, confirmation that product can meet intended application’s requirements or for the applicable product specifications when optional enhancements are applied.

Available Options

Some applications have more demanding requirements. To meet these needs A D Metro can make select combinations of the following enhancement options available:

Surface glass thickness
Substrate glass thickness

Please refer to the PCAP Sensor Catalog for specific details.

Compatible Controllers

All non Chip on Flex PCAP sensors up to 23” are compatible with the following controllers. Contact A D Metro for details and other options.

How do Projected Capacitive Touch Screens Work?

Projected capacitive touch screen sensors use two perpendicular layers of conductive coatings that form vertical and horizontal patterned tracks behind a glass top layer. When a finger is placed on the glass screen it changes the mutual capacitance between the horizontal and vertical patterned tracks. The controller scans each cell of the horizontal and vertical grid with a high frequency signal, identifying any changes in mutual capacitance between adjacent cells as touch locations.

For more information on popular touch screen technologies, please download our whitepaper.

Explore Other Projected Capacitive (PCAP) Products

ARGON PCAP Controller

A D Metro’s industry leading ARGON PCAP controller senses and adapts, at the press of a button, to the connected (off-the-shelf) PCAP sensor size, format, and cover glass as well as the characteristics of detected touches and your system’s unique background noise environment.

Standard PCAP Controller

A D Metro’s standard Projected Capacitance (PCAP) controllers along with A D Metro’s wide range of PCAP sensors deliver a high-quality, multi-touch solution suitable for a wide range of applications.

PCAP Sensors with chip-on-flex

PCAP touch screens with chip-on-flex controllers provide a compact touch solution for smaller sensor sizes, delivering excellent multi-touch experience

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Multi-Touch PCAP Touch Screen Sensors

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Supporting Documents

Featured PCAP Sensors

Support

Product Features

Technical Specifications

Available Options

Compatible Controllers

How do Projected Capacitive Touch Screens Work?

Explore Other Projected Capacitive (PCAP) Products

ARGON PCAP Controller

Standard PCAP Controller

PCAP Sensors with chip-on-flex

Ask the touch screen experts at A D Metro