Airborne Surveillance monitor – 10.4” TFT+ PCAP Touchpanel

"We need a Airborne Surveillance monitor – 10.4” TFT+ PCAP Touchpanel"

Display Type

TFT & PCAP Touch Panel

Product

10.4” TFT+ PCAP Touch Panel

Brand

Timeline

November 2017

Industry

Airborne

Our customer was developing a new airborne surveillance monitor which was heavily based on an existing design. They were keen however to move away from their existing resistive touch (single point) interface and move to the latest projected capacitive technology which would provide improved accuracy and multi-touch gesture control.

The nature of application gave rise to many problems which could not be solved with an off the shelf solution. These included:

Need for a high brightness display (600 cd/m²)
Operation with thick NBC gloves
Optical bonding, for daylight readability and to prevent moisture/condensation ingress in extreme weather conditions
Custom glass with anti-reflective coating specially designed for backward compatibility with older designs
Operating temperature -40°C to + 70°C

Our close relationship with Futurelabs meant that we could tailor a solution which met the precise needs of the customer.

Given the customers tough requirements we had to start with a PCAP panel which had a very high signal to noise ratio. This gave us the option to provide a solution which worked with avionic gloves and also with a water soaked screen. The firmware for the touch panel has now been finely tuned to provide the following features: