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List Of Touch Input Manufacturers ...
This is a list of notable companies that manufacture touch input devices or components. Touchscreens Capacitive * 3M * Alps Electric Corporation * Atmel *Cirque *Cypress * SCHURTER Input Systems *Synaptics Projected capacitive (PCAP) * 3M * Planar * SCHURTER Input Systems * Visual Planet * Zytronic Surface acoustic wave (SAW) * Planar Bending wave * 3M Resistive 4-wire * Planar * SCHURTER Input Systems 5-wire * SCHURTER Input Systems Touchpads These manufacturers provide components to touchpads or trackpads. Capacitive * Alps Electric Corporation *Cirque *Synaptics *Sensel Resistive * Interlink References {{Companies by industry Touch input A touchscreen (or touch screen) is a type of electronic visual display, display that can detect touch input from a user. It consists of both an input device (a touch panel) and an output device (a visual display). The touch panel is typically l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alps Electric Corporation
, previously known as is a Japanese multinational corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, producing electronic devices, including switches, potentiometers, sensors, encoders and touchpads. The company was established in 1948 as Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Alps Electric Co., Ltd. in December 1964. Since June 22, 2012, the President has been Toshihiro Kuriyama and Chairman is Masataka Kataoka. Alps is also well known for the Alpine brand of car audio. The Alps Electric Group has R&D, production and sales bases located in Japan and around the globe—in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Greater China. Since its founding, Alps Electric has supplied around 40,000 types of electronic components to over 2,000 manufacturers of home appliances, mobile devices, automobiles and industrial equipment worldwide. In 2014, Alps Group comprised 84 subsidiary companies, 25 through Alps Electric, 32 through Alpine Electronics and 27 through Alps Logi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirque Corporation
Cirque Corporation is an American subsidiary of the Japanese company Alps Alpine, which developed and commercialized the first successful capacitive touchpad, now widely used in notebook computers. Cirque develops and sells a variety of touch input products, both in original equipment manufacturer and end-user retail form. Cirque was founded in 1991 by George E. Gerpheide, PhD, and James L. O'Callaghan, to commercialize the GlidePoint technology invented in the 1980s by Gerpheide. History For many years, Gerpheide and O'Callaghan traveled in an attempt to convince makers of notebook computer to agree to use GlidePoint. Gerpheide recalls "We would often drive to the COMDEX trade show in Las Vegas and stay in a seedy hotel. There wasn't money for a booth at the show, so we carried our GlidePoint prototypes around the convention center making demonstrations to whoever was willing to watch. The early prototypes had a suitcase full of electronic circuits. I knew they could be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation was an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It offered NOR flash memories, F-RAM and SRAM Traveo microcontrollers, PSoCs, PMICs, capacitive touch-sensing controllers, Wireless BLE Bluetooth Low-Energy and USB connectivity solutions. Its headquarters were in San Jose, California, with operations in the United States, Ireland, India and the Philippines. In April 2016, Cypress Semiconductors announced the acquisition of Broadcom’s Wireless Internet of Things Business. The deal was closed in July 2016. In June 2019, Infineon Technologies announced it would acquire Cypress for $9.4 billion. The deal closed in April 2020, making Infineon one of the world's top 10 semiconductor manufacturers. Some of its main competitors included Microchip Technology, NXP Semiconductors, Renesas Electronics and Micron Technology. History Founding and early years It was founded by T. J. Rodgers and others (Fritz Beyerlein, Fred Jenne, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schurter
Schurter Holding AG is a Swiss multinational manufacturer of electrical and electronic components and a provider of electronic services which is based in Lucerne, Switzerland. The group of companies, which is represented in around 60 countries, employs over 2000 employees and generated sales of 289 million Swiss francs in 2018. History The Schurter company was founded in 1933 by Heinrich Schurter as a limited partnership and was converted into a stock corporation in 1949. In 1990 Schurter Holding AG, which still exists today, was founded in Lucerne (Switzerland). Today, Schurter employs around 2000 people in 17 countries worldwide and is managed by third-generation family members: Hans-Rudolf Schurter is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Schurter Holding AG and his brother, the US-based Bruno H. Schurter, is Vice Chairman. Hans-Rudolf Schurter handed over the operational management of the Schurter Group to Ralph Müller in January 2015. For the first time in the company's mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synaptics
Synaptics, Inc. is an American neural network technologies and computer-to-human interface devices development company based in San Jose, California. It develops touchpads and fingerprint biometrics technology for computer laptops; touch, display driver, and fingerprint biometrics technology for smartphones; and touch, video and far-field voice, low-power AI processors, and wireless technology for smart home devices, wearables, and automobiles. Synaptics sells its products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and display manufacturers. Synaptics invented a prolific design for a computer touchpad, the click wheel on the classic iPod, Android phones' touch sensors, touch and display driver integrated chips (TDDI), and fingerprint sensors. Its technology is used in devices such as PCs, wearables, drones, gaming systems, media systems, cars, industrial security and monitoring equipment, and virtual reality headsets. History 19861998: Initial years Federico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planar Systems
Planar Systems, Inc. is an American digital display manufacturing corporation with a facility in Hillsboro, Oregon. Founded in 1983 as a Corporate spin-off, spin-off from Tektronix, it was the first U.S. manufacturer of electroluminescent (EL) digital displays. Planar currently makes a variety of other specialty displays, and has been an independent subsidiary of Leyard, Leyard Optoelectronic Co. since 2015. The headquarters, leadership team and employees still remain in Hillsboro, Oregon, Hillsboro, Oregon. History 1980s Planar was founded on May 23, 1983 by Jim Hurd, Chris King, John Laney and others as a spin-off from the Solid State Research and Development Group of the Beaverton, Oregon, based Tektronix. In 1986, a division spun off from Planar to work on projection technology and formed InFocus. 1990s In 1991, Planar purchased FinLux, a competitor in Espoo, Finland. This location now serves as the company's European headquarters. Planar's executives took the company public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Planet
Visualplanet Ltd specialises in the manufacture and global distribution of projected capacitance interactive touch screen foils, which are designed to be used in a wide variety of Touch Screen applications from through-window touch to direct integration into LCD Screens. From its headquarters in Cambridge, England, the company distributes high quality products to an international network of partners. History In 2001, the company was founded after noticing the potential to allow customer access to information after high street closing hours. Main activities included sourcing and developing components and technologies for through window interactive solutions. Dominant activities presently include the manufacture of projected capacitance touchfoils and distribution to an established group of global resellers, integrators, and distributors. In 2006 the company moved headquarters to Cambridge, UK. Between 2006 and 2007 visualplanet's turnover had doubled and the company currently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zytronic
Zytronic is a manufacturer and developer of touch technology products based in Blaydon upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Zytronic designs composite component touch technologies that optimise the performance of electronic display applications and manufacture projected capacitive technology based touch sensors and their associated controllers which are used in public access and industrial applications. Zytronic supply touch technology for use in a variety of heavy use, self-service touch interactive systems, and has been selected by major companies, such as The Coca-Cola Company for Coca-Cola Freestyle machine, BSH Bosch and Siemens for some domestic appliances, Microsoft Envisioning Lab for an experimental multi-monitor workstation and also powered portable tablets in the Natural History Museum and payment terminals for bicycle rental stations as deployed in the City of London [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touchpad
A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device. Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a Cursor (user interface)#Pointer, pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen. Touchpads are common on Laptop, laptop computers, contrasted with desktop computers, where Computer mouse, mice are more prevalent. Trackpads are sometimes used with desktop setups where desk space is scarce. Wireless touchpads are also available, as detached accessories. Due to the ability of trackpads to be made small, they were additionally used on personal digital assistants (PDAs) and some portable media players. Operation and function Touchpads operate in several ways, including capacitive sensing or resistive touchscreen. The most common technology used in the 2010s senses the change of capacitance where a finger touches the pad. Capacitance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sensel
Sensel is an electronics company based in Sunnyvale, California that builds touch input technologies . It was founded in 2013 by former Amazon engineers Ilya Rosenberg and Aaron Zarraga. Sensel's first product, the Morph, is a pressure sensitive input device for creative applications. In January 2021, it was announced that Sensel's touch technology would be incorporated in the touchpad for Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga laptop. History Sensel co-founder and CEO Ilya Rosenberg met co-founder and CTO Aaron Zarraga while working at Amazon's Lab126. After leaving Amazon, the two founded Sensel in 2013. Together, the pair invented a new type of force sensor that could be manufactured like a printed circuit board. Sensel used Kickstarter Kickstarter, PBC is an American Benefit corporation, public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York City, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
