Method and apparatus for assigning and imprinting touch icons of a touch pad

摘要

A method and apparatus for simplified setting and imprinting the touch icons of a touch pad used for electrical devices and appliances in homes, other residences and other building by installing the touch pad directly on walls or an electrical wall box individually and in a cascaded chain connected via a bus line with or without power feed, including the attaching of the pads to each other for providing aligned larger sized touch panel, wherein the setting of the touch icon is via loading data to a memory or via setting switches and the imprinting is selected via a program provided for printing a pre-formatted and pre-cut decorative sheet attached to the touch pad by a front cover with self-locking.

主权项

1. A method for imprinting touch icons for identifying a plurality of touch positions aligned with touch sensors of a touch pad, each touch sensor is assigned to operate at least one of a function of a given electrical appliance, said touch pad comprising a printable decorative sheet formatted with creased lines to form an inner cover, one of a transparent and semi-transparent front cover with locking ledges for covering and attaching said inner cover to a sensing surface of a main body of said touch pad by said locking ledges leaving no air gaps between said front cover, said inner cover and said sensors, said method comprising the steps of:
a. selecting at least one of names and design motifs for at least one touch icon through a PC printing program associated with said touch pad; b. printing the selected names and design motifs by a PC printer onto said decorative inner cover; c. bending the creased lines and fitting the printed decorative inner cover onto said main body; and d. attaching firmly said printed decorative inner cover flat to said sensing surface by said front cover and said locking ledges to said main body with no said air gaps and no adhesive.