Custom Touch Screen Manufacturing | Butler Technologies Inc.

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Butler Technologies, Inc. manufactures quality custom touch screens for user interface projects. From design conception through to production, our team can help you incorporate a durable touch screen that will best meet the needs for your product.

Resistive Touch Screens
Projective Capacitive (PCAP) Touch Screens
Capacitive Touch Keypads and Buttons
Planar Touch Screens

Example Applications

Medical Devices
Consumer Electronics
Industrial Control Units
Point Of Sales Systems

What is a Touch Screen?

A touch screen as an electronic input device usually layered on top of the visual display of an information processing system.

Touch screens give the user control of a device through simple or multi-touch gestures. They enable the user to interact directly with what is displayed rather than using a mouse, trackpad, or other separate components.

Accurate and fast response
Use with bare finger or stylus
Easy to clean
Adds a modern and innovative design to products
Resistant to Temperature Extremes
Resistant to Moisture and Humidity
Resistant to Dust
Withstand writing of 100,00 characters in the same area
Used up to a 1,000,000 times

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Various Constructions of Resistive Touch Screens

Film to Glass Film to Film

Offers high transparency.
It costs less than Film to Film construction.
The maximum touch screen size is 21″.

Resistive Film to Glass

Capacitive Film to Glass

Two layers of PET film cause low transparency.
Higher Cost.
The thickness of the touch screen can be adjusted.
Durable and not easily broken. A PC or Glass Rigid Backer, also known as a stiffener, is added to the construction to increase durability.
If the glass is broken, pieces are held in place by optically clear adhesive.
The maximum touch screen size is 12″.

Resistive Film to Film and Stiffener

Capacitive Glass to Film plus Film

Touch Screen Components

Film for Top and Bottom Layers (Circuits)

Clear or anti-glare, hard-coated film (.007″)
Clear or anti-glare, hard-coated film with anti-Newton Ring Coating (.008′)
Films have ITO coating on the non-hardcoat side.

Glass for Bottom Layers (Circuits)

Standard conductive ITO-coated glass

Thickness: 0.55mm, 0.7mm, 1.1mm, 2.0mm, and 3.0mm
Thinner glass offers better transparency.
More surface unevenness with thicker glass.

Chemically strengthened conductive ITO glass.

Thickness: 0.55mm, 0.7mm, 1.1mm, 2.0mm, and 3.0mm
Greater impact and break resistance.

Other additions to a touch screen device can include displays such as LCD, LCD-TFT, or a combination of overlays with a switch, display, or bezel.

Different types of touch screens

Go in-depth on the different types of touch screens here.

Resistive Touch Screens Projective Capacitive (PCAP) Touch Screens Capacitive Touch Screens Planar Touch Screens

Low production costs.
Low power consumption.
High resistance to dust and water.
Actuated by bare finger, gloved hand, or stylus.
Suited for handwriting recognition.

Excellent clarity.
More resistant to scratching.
Far more sensitive than resistive touch screens.
Resistance to surface contaminants and liquids (dust, oil, grease, moisture).
Support multi-touch inputs (up to 10).
Often operated via finger touch or conductive stylus

Capacitive touch screen constructions can consist of film to glass, glass to glass, and glass to film + film.

Contains all the necessary elements for the user interface
Surrounded by additional complimentary device controls (on/off button, etc.) covered by a graphic overlay.

Where to start

With all the different customization options and use cases, it might seem overwhelming.

Contact our expert team today and take the pressure off yourself.