An experimental study of a piezoelectrically actuated touch screen

Abstract

An audiovisual feedback is used on touch screens in portable electronic devices. When these devices are used in noisy and distracting environments, suitable available feedback methods is severely inadequate and the availability of the device severely reduced. For these reasons, touch screen technology has become a popular recently. These panels used in many sectors such as watches, cars, mobile devices, aerospace. Touch screens, which provide tactile feedback to the user, are activated using solenoid actuators, coil-type actuators or vibration motors. The use of evolving piezoelectric vibrators has attracted considerable attention in recent years to obtain high-resolution tactile feedback. Their higher bandwidth helps create more user-perceivable haptic effects. In this work, we experimented to observe the effect of the piezo vibrator on the screen. As a result, the various types of tactile feedback functions will be developed on the screen and compared. The best vibration functions depending on the settings are obtained through experiments. © 2017 IEEE.