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Turning Surfaces into Touch Panels: A Granite-Touch Pad

Touch sensing interfaces are used in many human to machine applications with the natural feeling to the touch missing. We propose the use of humantenna touch technique to turn surfaces of natural or arti cial conductive or semi-conductive materials into passive touch pads. Because of the conductivity of the human body, AC power lines induce a voltage on the human body which is used as the touch...

Beyond Touch Panels: Appliance Solutions Using Electric Field Sensors

Predicting the vibroacoustic response of satellite equipment panels.

Modern satellites are constructed of large, lightweight equipment panels that are strongly excited by acoustic pressures during launch. During design, performing vibroacoustic analyses to evaluate and ensure the integrity of the complex electronics mounted on the panels is critical. In this study the attached equipment is explicitly addressed and how its properties affect the panel responses is...

Analytical Calculation for Capacitances of Electrode Patterns in Touch Panels

In this paper, an accurate 3-dimensional (3-D) analytical solution is proposed to calculate the projective capacitances of touch panels. In this study, both simple and complex patterns were investigated for the calculation. We propose a partition strategy to divide a pattern into many rectangular or triangular sub-patterns. Each sub-pattern can be further cut into 2-D slices. The capacitance of...

Can't Touch This! Contamination of Laboratory Equipment with Bloodborne Pathogens.

In the July 2016 issue of Clinical Chemistry, Dr. Andrew Bryan and colleagues report on their investigation into the levels of blood-borne viral pathogen contamination of a total laboratory automation system. This article was accompanied by an editorial by Dr. Carey-Ann Burnham and Dr. Susan Butler-Wu. They joined us for this podcast. Carey-Ann Burnham is an Associate Professor of Pathology and...