Panel utilises printed light guide technology
A Design LED Products product story
Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Aug 11, 2009
Design LED Products and IGT Industries have developed a backlit vehicle-control panel for a range of battery-powered locomotives used by mining businesses.
The panel utilises printed light guide technology with capacitive touch sensing to enhance efficiency, reliability and safety.
Design LED Products and IGT Industries have developed a backlit vehicle-control panel for a range of battery-powered locomotives used by mining businesses.
Developed for Clayton Equipment, the LED illuminated display eliminates a conventional array of mechanical switches and incandescent bulbs, and presents large, bright, evenly-lit, colour-coded, touch-sensitive icons to the vehicle driver.
The panel is clear and easy to use and, using Design LED's printed light guide technology, delivers a consumer-quality user experience that is cost-effective in low production volumes.
In addition, the new control panels are sealed to IP67, maximising reliability and enabling wipe-clean maintenance.
A printed light guide is a multi-layer panel comprising a flexible PCB, side-emitting LEDs and a screen-printed optical layer.
The assembly is built using a combination of proven processes and techniques, and can achieve a total thickness of 1mm.
Printed light guides allow LED illumination to be distributed uniformly within a defined area, which improves the appearance and performance of many types of industrial, commercial, domestic and consumer products.
This technology combines with capacitive touch sensing, allowing low-profile control panels presenting graphics and icons and benefiting from having no moving parts.
Not what you're looking for? Search the site.
Google Ads
Contact Design LED Products
Related Stories
Browse by category
- Active Components (11,644)
- Active Components (4)
- Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs (1,739)
- Communications ICs (Wired) (1,809)
- Communications ICs (Wireless) (1,589)
- Discrete Power Devices (422)
- Memory Devices and Modules (764)
- Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs (2,165)
- Power Supply ICs and Controllers (2,407)
- Programmable Logic Devices (600)
- Standard Logic Devices (145)
- Design and Development (9,522)
- Design and Development (1)
- Design and Development Hardware (1,032)
- Design and Development Software (4,608)
- Design Services (307)
- Embedded Software and Operating Systems (1,674)
- Intellectual Property Cores (1,548)
- Reference Designs (352)
- Electronics Manufacturing, Packaging (3,206)
- Enclosures and Panel Products (3,410)
- Enclosures and Panel Products (2)
- Fans and Blowers (225)
- Floor-Standing Racks, Cabinets, Enclosures (251)
- Gaskets, Seals and Screens (124)
- Handheld and Other Small Enclosures (138)
- Heatsinks and Thermal Management (201)
- Indicators and Audio (80)
- Instrument Cases, Benchtop, Wall-Mounting Enclosures (341)
- LCD Modules (487)
- Monitors (134)
- Other OEM Display Modules, Meters (240)
- Printers, Knobs, Bezels, Other Panelware (154)
- Rotary Controls, Joysticks etc (137)
- Switches and Keyboards (589)
- Touchscreens and Touch Sensors (300)
- Industry News (1,950)
- Interconnection (3,072)
- Antennas and Feeders (309)
- Boards and Backplanes (153)
- Cables and Wires (462)
- Interconnection (10)
- PCB Connectors (602)
- Plugs and Sockets (1,200)
- Terminals and Power (281)
- Optoelectronics (1,724)
- Passive Components (3,167)
- Capacitors (686)
- Circuit Protection Devices (500)
- Electromechanical Components (574)
- EMC Components (412)
- Frequency Control Components (419)
- Passive Components (1)
- Resistors (316)
- Transformers and Inductors (259)
- Power Supplies (2,501)
- AC/DC Power Supplies (1,042)
- Batteries and Chargers (248)
- DC/AC Inverters (78)
- DC/DC Convertors (907)
- OEM Power Supplies (0)
- Power Supplies (7)
- UPSs (219)
- Subassemblies (4,884)
- CompactPCI Boards, Assemblies (377)
- Embedded Computing and Control (1,286)
- Networking Hardware (916)
- PC-Compatible Boards, Assemblies (802)
- Subassemblies (1)
- VMEbus Boards, Assemblies (423)
- Wireless Communications (1,079)
- Test and Measurement (5,206)
- ATE Systems (392)
- Board-Level Instruments (549)
- Compliance Engineering (903)
- Sensors and Data Acquisition (910)
- Stand-Alone Instruments (2,015)
- Test Accessories (419)
- Test and Measurement (3)
