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With the new touch keypad by SCHURTER data input can be carried out with nearly no effort. This guarentees a quick and fatigue-free operation. The user does not feel any different using the keybad compared to using a touch screen. The effort required is comparable to using an analogue touch screen. The touch keybad is therefore perfectly suited to verically positioned input systems.

The size of the touch points are variable and can be freely configured. The contact surface of the touch points correspond exactly to the design area. A definite contact is given in every point as well as in the edges of the touch area. The contact area is not limited meaning there are no contact elements used. Therefore many new design possibilities can be implemented in the construction.

The touch keypad is built very flatly, has a closed surface IP56 and does not allow for any dirty edges. This ensures simple cleaning as well as being able to be used in very harsh environmental conditions. Multi-purpose application specific labels are implemented using labelling strips. The construction of the flat touch keypad enables a simple, also customer side fitting and exchange of these strips. The touch keypad has an extremely high product reliability. It has a life expectancy of over 5 million operations.

Applications for the touch keypad include medical technologies, dental technologies, food industry, gastronomy, weighing technology, industry automation, control technology as well as in building technology.

With the click-switch version, contact 1 is closed with no feedback when actuated, whilst contact 2, which is placed underneath, provides a tactile feedback. The use of this dual contact function in a membrane keypad is primarily for applications requiring high-level security, where a second, separate switch, is required for triggering an indirect control command. This construction meets the medical products specification IEC 60601 for the intrinsic safety of devices.

In the double-click versions, both contact 1 and contact 2 provide tactile feedback. This feature is required in applications where operators need to be aware of the dual switching stages. The operator can control two functions e.g. slow/fast or request/confirmation via one tip point and is made aware of the 2 switching points placed one after the other during the actuation. The actuation force can be set differently between the first and the second tip point and can be set individually by the use of different metal domes or stamping matrix of the key tip. The double-click versions are primarily used in automation applications.