The MaxCap Touch Difference

Incredible Response Time: Typically responding in 160 microseconds. Providing a crisp, definitive response to the user’s lightest touch.

Low Current Requirements: Sensors typically draw only 16 micro-amps at idle, compared to the 600 micro-amps to 25 milliamps required by traditional capacitive approaches.

Adjustable Sensitivity: Sensitivity levels can be fine-tuned for many different specific applications.

Wide Operating Temperature Range: MaxCap Touch can function over a wide temperature range of -40 to +120 degrees Centigrade, allowing it to be used in many applications that are impossible for other technology.

Easy Design Integration: MaxCap Touch ca be easily integrated into current or new electronics, reducing time-to-market and development costs.

High Signal-To-Noise Ratio: AlSentis™ sensors use high level signals in the hundreds of millivolts with a 3 volt dynamic range, compared to other touch systems in the millivolt range, thus eliminating false triggers that are induced by low level circuit noise or surface contaminants.

Low impedance versus high impedance: The AlSentis™ sensor’s resistance to ground is measured in orders of magnitudes lower than our competitors. This orders of magnitudes difference, enables these sensors to be inherently immune to electrical noise.

Digital input/output at the point of touch: One ASIC is placed at each sense point or control point, making an active circuit and decision-making at the point of touch or point of sensing. Additionally, there is a digital output, which eliminates the problems of noise pick-up, cross-coupling between circuit traces, and high software content typically associated with traditional capacitive approaches.