Press Releases - Touch Panels
2009 Press Releases
- May 27, 2009
- Fujitsu Adds 5-Wire Resistive Touch Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, May 27, 2009 – Fujitsu Components America Inc. today announced it is adding a new line of RoHS-compliant, 5-wire Resistive Touch Panels to its product offering. The panels feature a design construction that improves linearity and allows OEMs to maximize the active touch input area especially in large-size and wide-aspect ratio displays.
- May 27, 2009
- Fujitsu Offers Self-Wetting Adhesive Protector Sheets for Touch Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, May 27, 2009 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today announced the release of new self-wetting adhesive protector sheets that reduce surface damage to touch screens and flat panel displays in use or during shipping, while preserving the optical quality and extending the life of the touch device. Because they are repositionable, the protector sheets reduce waste and materials costs.
2008 Press Releases
- May 15, 2008
- Fujitsu Expands Line of Standard, Wide-Aspect Ratio Touch Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, May 15, 2008 – Responding to the market growth of wide-aspect ratio LCDs, Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today announced an expanded line-up of standard, wide-aspect ratio, 4-wire resistive touch panels. The devices fit available wide-aspect ratio LCDs to eliminate custom development costs for OEMs and shorten their product time-to-market.
2007 Press Releases
- August 8, 2007
- Fujitsu Expands Standard Touch Panel Offering for Automotive and High Temperature Applications
Sunnyvale, CA, August 8, 2007 – Responding to customer requests for enhanced touch panel performance and environmental specifications, such as those needed for automotive and industrial applications, Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today added three new extended temperature range products to its standard off-the-shelf, resistive touch panel offering.
- May 16, 2007
- Fujitsu Demos Production Samples of Longer Life Resistive Touch Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, May 16, 2007 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today released production samples of its next-generation, resistive touch panels using an organic conductive polymer material. The new, custom touch panels offer five times the durability and comparable optical properties of conventional ITO (Indium Tin Oxide)-film panels at a small price premium. Demonstrations of the new panels will highlight the Fujitsu booth (1548) during the Society for Information Display exhibits held May 22-24 in Long Beach, California.
- April 24, 2007
- Fujitsu Introduces 17” Touch Panel to Standard Product Line
Sunnyvale, CA, April 24, 2007 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today expanded its standard touch panel offering by introducing a 17-inch (diagonal) product. The off-the-shelf product simplifies and reduces product development time for OEMs and systems integrators in the growing retail kiosk market.
- March 19, 2007
- Fujitsu Adds Standard, 4.3-inch High-Transparency Touch Panel for Sharp and NEC LCDs
Sunnyvale, CA, March 19, 2007 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today expanded its resistive touch-panel offering with the introduction of a 4.3-inch (diagonal) film-glass panel with superior performance in both finger and stylus-based applications. It is part of Fujitsu’s commitment to offer OEMs competitively-priced, standard-product touch panels with higher performance specifications.
2006 Press Releases
- May 25, 2006
- Fujitsu Demos its Newest Resistive Touch Panel Technologies at SID 2006
Sunnyvale, CA, May 25, 2006 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. is highlighting its resistive touch panel technology with working demonstrations in booth #402 at the Society for Information Display, June 4 – 9, in San Francisco.
- January 31, 2006
- Fujitsu Begins Shipping RoHS-Compliant Touch Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, January 31, 2006 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today announced that touch panel product orders accepted after January 31, 2006 for out-of-stock standard products will be supported with lead-free, RoHS-compliant, equivalent product.
- January 16, 2006
- Fujitsu Touch Panels Receive Control Engineering’s Editors' Choice Award
Sunnyvale, CA, January 16, 2006 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today announced that its line of high-transparency touch panels was awarded the 2005 Editors' Choice Award in the Human-Machine Interface category by Control Engineering magazine.
2005 Press Releases
- October 25, 2005
- Fujitsu Expands Standard, High-Transparency Touch Panel Offering
Sunnyvale, CA, October 25, 2005 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today announced it has expanded its standard, high-transparency resistive touch panel offering with more sizes and optical enhancements. The new 4- and 7-wire high-transparency touch panels provide OEMs, VARs and integrators with a larger variety of cost-effective, off-the-shelf options for transmissive LCDs used in high ambient light applications.
- May 24, 2005
- Fujitsu Adds High-Transparency Touch Panels to Standard Offering
Boston, MA, May 24, 2005 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today is introducing and exhibiting at the Society for Information Display Exhibit and Conference new standard product, high-transparency touch panels for transmissive LCDs. As additions to Fujitsu’s 4- and 7-wire resistive offering, the new touch panels enhance image contrast and clarity in high ambient light applications.
- May 16, 2005
- Fujitsu Announces RoHS-Compliant Touch Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, May 16, 2005 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today announced that it will immediately begin converting its touch panel products to RoHS lead-free compliant status to meet its customers’ environmental programs. Completion of production changeover is scheduled for the end of December 2005. Contact Fujitsu Sales for details.
2004 Press Releases
- May 25, 2004
- Fujitsu Announces Production Schedule and North American Marketing Efforts for Industry’s First Conductive Polymer Film Touch
Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, May 25, 2004 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc., today announced it will begin North American marketing efforts for new resistive touch panels that use an extremely durable conductive polymer film and cost less to produce than conventional resistive touch panels. An industry-first technology developed by Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. and Fujitsu Component Limited, the custom touch panels will start sampling in early 2006 with production following in Q2 2006.
- May 24, 2004
- Fujitsu Begins Producing Plastic Touch Panels for Mobile Products
Sunnyvale, CA, May 24, 2004 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc., today announced the availability of ultra-thin, lightweight, flexible and rigid touch panels for mobile applications. The full-custom touch panels use plastic film substrates to reduce weight, improve durability and provide a wider operating temperature range than traditional film-glass touch panels.
- April 20, 2004
- Fujitsu Expands Its 7-Wire Touch Panel Offering
Sunnyvale, CA, April 20, 2004 – Larger Panels Address Emerging Applications
2003 Press Releases
- May 20, 2003
- Fujitsu Releases Circularly Polarized Resistive Touch Panels for Sunlight Readability
Sunnyvale, CA, May 20, 2003 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today expanded its touch panel offering by releasing a line of custom, circularly polarized touch panels that greatly enhance display readability in direct sunlight conditions. The touch panels eliminate over 60% of reflected ambient light while maintaining 79% luminance transmissivity.
- May 19, 2003
- Fujitsu Components and Apollo Display Technologies Offer Smart Kits for LCD and Touch-Panel Integration
Sunnyvale, CA, May 19, 2003 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc., a touch panel manufacturer, and Apollo Displays, a manufacturer and value-added distributor of display products, today announced they have joined forces and introduced a new line of touch-integrated display kits for fine-pixel LCDs. The kits are designed to save time and money by simplifying the integration of a LCD with a touch panel for various applications.
2002 Press Releases
- October 21, 2002
- Fujitsu Develops Touch Panels for High-Temperature Environments
Sunnyvale, CA, October 21, 2002 – Fujitsu Components America, Inc. today announced it has added a line of 4-wire resistive touch panels for high-temperature applications. The new touch panels meet the temperature, humidity, vibration, and shock requirements for the automotive environment, as well as other high-temperature environments such as factory floors, warehouses, and remotely located control stations.
- May 22, 2002
- Fujitsu Achieves 90% Transmissivity with New Resistive Touch Panel Series
Boston, MA, May 22, 2002 – SID Booth #3104
- May 20, 2002
- Fujitsu Releases Resistive Touch Panel Line with 85% Transmissivity
Boston, MA, May 20, 2002 – SID Booth #3104
- April 29, 2002
- Fujitsu Expands Resistive Touch Panel Offering; Factory Production Ramps Up
Sunnyvale, CA, April 29, 2002 – Following the November 2001 opening of its new touch panel factory in Taiwan, Fujitsu Components America, Inc. has now doubled its capacity. It has also added more panel sizes and configurations to its standard and non-standard resistive touch panel (RTP) product line.
2001 Press Releases
- November 13, 2001
- New Touch Panel Factory Enhances Fujitsu’s Marketing Efforts in North America
Sunnyvale, CA, November 13, 2001 – Following the November 2001 opening of its new touch panel factory in Taiwan, Fujitsu Components America, Inc. has now doubled its capacity. It has also added more panel sizes and configurations to its standard and non-standard resistive touch panel (RTP) product line.
- April 23, 2001
- Fujitsu Takamisawa Releases Low-Power Resistive Touch Panels
Sunnyvale, CA, April 23, 2001 – Fujitsu Takamisawa America, Inc. (FTA) today released a series of resistive touch panels that combine low power consumption and long operating life with improved optical materials. The panels offer OEMs a cost-effective input component for a variety of portable and fixed applications including kiosks, industrial and process controls, portable and handheld PCs, POS terminals, ATMs, medical equipment and internet appliances.
