HMI

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HMI

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Overview
The document serves as a detailed guide on Human Machine Interface (HMI) technologies, focusing on membrane keypads, touch screen integration, and associated printing and embossing methods. It covers specifications, procedures, and recommendations for designing and implementing these interfaces across various applications.
Front Membranes
The front membrane acts as the visual and tactile interface between the user and the device. It can be customized with materials like polyester and polycarbonate, and features such as embossing and display windows, offering ergonomic and robust design solutions.
Embossing Techniques
Embossing provides tactile feedback, enhancing usability. The document discusses various forms such as raised, cap, dome, and rim embossing, each with specific height ranges and applications.
Printing Methods
Screen printing and digital printing are employed for high-quality membrane designs. Screen printing is ideal for mass production, while digital printing suits prototypes and custom designs. High-gloss technology is a cost-effective alternative to doming.
Membrane Keypads
Designed for durability, membrane keypads are suitable for medical and industrial applications, with options for copper conductors to enhance performance and reliability.
Profiline Membrane Keypads
These keypads provide excellent tactile feedback and design flexibility, featuring special inlays for improved illumination and durability.
Illuminated Membrane Keypads
These keypads are designed for low-light conditions, using LEDs for illumination to enhance user accuracy and reduce errors.
USB Keypads
USB keypads incorporate printed electronics for easy connectivity and configuration, supporting up to 188 functions with plug-and-play capability.
Touch/Display Integration
Capacitive and resistive touch screens are integrated into devices, offering high reliability and functionality. Capacitive screens are noted for their durability and ease of use, even in harsh environments.
ISO-Classified Controlled Area
Production occurs in cleanroom conditions to ensure high-quality results. Optical bonding techniques are used to assemble touch sensors and displays into cohesive units.
Optical Bonding Variants
The document discusses three types of optical bonding: LOca, Oca, and air-gap bonding. LOca and Oca bonding are highlighted for preventing parallax and improving device functionality, stability, and optics, with the choice of process tailored to application needs.
Benefits of Optical Bonding
Key benefits include reduced risk of splintering upon glass breakage, high resistance to vibration and shock, improved legibility, and special content integration.
Touch Screen Lamination
Full-surface touch screen lamination is conducted in an ISO class 6 cleanroom, ensuring dust-free bonding with high-transparency Oca self-adhesive layers.
Printed Electronics
The document outlines the limitations of traditional electronics and the advantages of printed electronics, which allow for flexible, customized solutions. Applications include capacitive keypads and printed antennas, offering cost savings, reduced failure risk, and easy integration.
Capacitive Keypads
Touch-sensor systems can be printed on various substrates, converting non-conductive surfaces into capacitive keypads, providing cost savings, plug-and-play solutions, and good optical transparency.
Printed Antennas
Antennas for RFID products are designed for specific applications and printed using copper technology, offering better range and data transmission rates. NFC technology is integrated for digital identification and data transmission without compromising enclosure integrity.
Additional Printed Electronics
The document mentions pressure sensor systems and printed heaters, highlighting their low-profile, lightweight, and flexible nature, with potential integration into various systems.
System Integration
Modern HMI solutions require integrated units combining components like membrane keypads, electronics, and touch screens. The document emphasizes the importance of system integration for creating cohesive, plug-and-play modules.
Contact Information
The document provides contact details for Bopla Gehäuse Systeme GmbH, including their address, phone number, fax, email, and website.
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Catalog excerpts

HMI-3

Embossing Printing methods Membrane keypads with printed copper conductors Profiline membrane keypads Illuminated membrane keypads Structure of a membrane keypad Touch /Display integration 25 27 Resistive touch screen Touch / Display solutions Capacitive touch screen ISO-classified controlled area / clean room production Capacitive KEypads Printed antennas

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HMI-5

Frontmembranes The front membrane is the visual and tactile interface between your membrane keypad and the user. It can be labelled and surfacefinished using a number of different printing and embossing methods. The visual impression made is also of decisive importance for the appeal of your device! Various materials, including polyester and polycarbonate, combined with geometrical flexibility, colour and design, permit ergonomically rational flat membrane keypads for electronically controlled devices. Our high-quality front membranes conform to high tightness and robustness standards. There...

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HMI-6

For tactile key delineation. Height: 0.6 - 0.8 mm* Cap embossing Cap embossing is a cap-shaped projection. This form of embossing is used for installation of LEDs, enabling levelling out of component height and intensification of the illumination effect. Raised embossing Raised embossing can be executed in various forms.

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HMI-7

Membranes are embossed primarily to improve ease of use. Series of keys are made “feelable”, while the membrane effect of the embossing improves tactile feedback from the actuating elements. Embossing can, of course, also be used as a design element for emphasis of design membrane sectors. Height: 0.3 - 0.5 mm* Rim embossing Rim embossing is applied as a guide for the fingers. The surface level of the front membrane and key surface remain the same. DOME EMBOSSING Profiline embossing Dome embossing is possible in diameters ranging from 8 to 17 mm. This especially high embossing is the basis of...

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HMI-8

SCREEN PRINTING Digital Printing HIGH-GLOSS TECHNOLOGY

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HMI-9

Printing methods Industrial screen printing forms the basis for the production of all types of membrane keypads. Previously unachieved flexibility in front membrane design. Our high-gloss technology is a special surface design treatment. SCREEN PRINTING Digital Printing HIGH-GLOSS TECHNOLOGY We work under cleanroom conditions using the latest, highly specialised equipment in the form of multiple production lines which print your design motifs onto the membrane flexibly and with no sacrifices in quality. Digital-printing technology is especially suitable for prototypes, short production series...

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HMI-10

Thanks to their positive-function structure, our membrane keypads are suitable for a broad range of applications, from simple handheld devices, up to and including sophisticated high-quality medical and industrial equipment.

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HMI-11

Membrane keypads Membrane keypads assuring maximum quality and durability – ideal for medical, metrological and mechanical-engineering applications.

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HMI-13

Structure of a membrane keypad 1 Structure based on CU with snap dome Length and position 31,9 of ribbon cables Minimum key-to-edge spacing ⁄⁄ Length of ribbon cables Minimum key-to-key spacing Key spacing ⁄⁄ Number of keys (embossing yes / no) ⁄⁄ Number of colours (clear lacquer for ⁄⁄ Number of LEDs viewing windows classified as additional colour)

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HMI-14

Anyone can do silver, copper is gold!

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HMI-15

For demanding applications, we create exclusive high-quality membrane keypads that incorporate the outstanding properties of surface-treated copper conductors. Membrane keypads with copper conductors High-quality copper-laminated membranes form the basis for a membrane keypad. These are silver- or, for extreme applications, gold-plated. The technology of copper-laminated switch wafers permits reliable SMD equipping with electronic components, followed by soldering. Silver migration can be greatly reduced or, in the case of gold-plated conductors, eliminated entirely. The Cu conductors assure...

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HMI-17

This technology succeeds in providing outstanding data-entry operation for a large range of industrial requirements. Customised design for every keypad! Profiline membrane keypads Our premium keypads are equipped with Profiline technology. Excellent tactile feedback with “shortstroke feeling” and outstandingly good switching performance are the characteristics of our Profiline techno- logy. It is also linked to many degrees of freedom in key geometry, key size and design. This is all assured by means of an inlay consisting of a special plastic and positioned above the switching elements. Even...

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HMI-19

Illuminated membrane keypads Assists error-free operation in low-light conditions. Our illuminated membrane keypads make operation easier in low-light situations and thus assure reduction of user errors. LEDs are predominantly used for illumination of the display, and of operating and design elements. The lowest-cost configuration for signal generation is implemented using LEDs and LED windows. These can be executed with or without embossing. PROFILINE backlit The use of special LEDs and special treatment of the inlay provides homogenous illumination, with long service life naturally assured....

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HMI-20

Suitable for the BoPad BOP 700 enclosure.

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HMI-21

USB keypad Plug & Play – the membrane keypad for immediate operation using the USB port. We use printed electronics to integrate configurable keypad controllers into the membrane keypad. The ribbon cables needed can thus be narrower and can be connected directly to USB A sockets. Additional customer hardware for operation of conventional membrane keypads is thus no longer needed. ⁄⁄ Cost, space and time-savings ⁄⁄ Optimum for connection to PC or embedded system ⁄⁄ 188 functions thanks to three control levels (FN keys) ⁄⁄ 19 macros, mouse function, multimedia keys Plug & Play operation is on the...

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HMI-23

Touch / Display integration Convince yourself of the advantages of this versatile technology and benefit from an all-in single-source system solution. Touch the future!

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