Industrial and Machine Field for Membrane Switches

The first layer of membrane switches is a high-quality graphic overlay, also recognized as a faceplate. This layer can include unlimited colors and customized designs. In the medical equipment industry, such graphics usually work in combination with important indicators light or interface functions.

The best thing about it is that you can view a graphic overlay in a radius of 180-degree. However, achieving this is impossible with touchscreens.

It is essential to keep medical equipment as sterile and clean as possible to maintain basic hygiene. Proper sanitization and cleanliness are also important to prevent infections. Due to a smooth, sealed surface of a membrane switch, they are straightforward to clean.

On the other hand, a mechanical switch comes with buttons above the surface, making them difficult to clean. Modern-day membrane switches have an anti-microbial film design that ensures germs protection while cleaning medical equipment.

Another benefit of using membrane switches in industrial and machine field contract manufacturing is that they ensure an improved overall user experience. If a membrane switch has a perfect design, it will simplify the medical equipment operation and enhances the input accuracy by the health professional.

There are some special features, such as backlighting and tactile feedback that can make the user experience to the next level. In short, membrane switches offer a far better user experience than mechanical switches.

A membrane switch is highly durable because of protective coverings and few or no moving parts. It makes the membrane switch the most long-lasting and reliable interface. Another advantage of these switches is that they are resistant to several elements. A fully-sealed and high-quality membrane switch resists exposure to different elements, including chemicals, dust, bodily floods, and water, etc. These are the elements that can harm electronics.

It is also possible to design membrane switches to add shielding elements. The purpose of adding shielding elements is to block ESD (electrostatic discharge) without making any compromise on the overall performance. Therefore, shielding is another benefit of these switches in medical device

PET graphic overlay with embeded dome in order to come with metal domes of electric circuit , not only have a clear view, but also enhance key’s tactile feeling when user operate the machine. Meanwhile, the number , letter and icon can be also printed on the inside back face avoid the color of words’ fade out, with anti-scratch as well.

LED chip light can be embeded to meet some of special customer demands, provide various LED backlighting effecitive membrane keypad and switches. such as Rim backlighting , pillow backlighting and Translucency backlighting etc. such backlighting membrane keypad and switches mostly are used for dark environments and dim conditions, in these environments, operation user can find clearly the funcitons and features of every key when they are run the machine !