E918135 PLC Module: Advanced Industrial Automation Solution for Modern Manufacturing

E918135 PLC Module: Advanced Industrial Automation Solution for Modern Manufacturing

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What is the Elo E918135 touch glass?

Note on the listing title: the queue titles this article a "PLC Module" — the part is a touch screen. The E918135 is an Elo (Tyco Electronics-era) five-wire resistive touch glass — the transparent digitizer layer that laminates over a display and turns touches into coordinates: tempered glass carrying the resistive sensing pattern, with the gold FPC tail and its 5-pin connector landing on the touch controller. The FPC label states the identity — ēlo TOUCHSYSTEMS, P/N: E918135, REV.J, S/N: B10C001078 / B10C001079, SCN-, Made in China, cULus — and the glass edge carries the design line: © 2011 Tyco Electronics Corporation, Designed in Menlo Park USA. It is the SCN-series service glass, the layer that wears out on a kiosk or terminal while the electronics behind it keep running. Ten glasses, new in static bags, as recorded at intake. All 12 photos and 1 video below show these exact parts.

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Part details

E918135, as printed on the FPC label and glass edge
Field Value
Part number Elo P/N E918135, REV.J — SCN series
Serials B10C001078, B10C001079 (across the set)
Type Five-wire resistive touch glass (digitizer layer), tempered glass with gold FPC tail
Connection FPC tail to a 5-pin connector
FPC marking ater P/E753284, E317699 CT-3, UL
Design line (glass edge) © 2011 Tyco Electronics Corporation, Designed in Menlo Park USA
Maker Elo TouchSystems (Tyco Electronics era) — Made in China
Approvals cULus (FPC label)
Quantity 10 glasses, new in static bags, as recorded at intake
Shipping weight 2 kg per lot as recorded
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Values are read from the FPC label, the glass edge engraving and the photographed construction in the photo set.

The wear layer of a touch terminal

Five-wire resistive is the touch technology that industrial terminals settled on for a reason: the glass carries one stable resistive plane while the flexible layer above carries the other, and a touch is read wherever the two meet — so the active layer can be scratched, dented even, and the touch still registers accurately, because only the top layer flexes. That is why the technology dominated kiosks, POS terminals and medical panels through the 2000s and 2010s, and why the glass itself is the service part: it takes the stylus strikes, the keys, the cleaners, and eventually it cracks or delaminates while the display, controller and computer behind it carry on. The Elo lineage here is worth reading from the glass itself: the edge print — © 2011 Tyco Electronics, Designed in Menlo Park USA — dates the design to the era when Elo sat inside Tyco, with manufacture in China and the cULus file riding on the FPC label. Replacement is a lamination job on the bench: peel the failed glass from its mount, mate the new FPC to the controller socket, and the terminal returns with a factory-new touch layer. Ten glasses in static bags are photographed here — a service depot's stock for a fleet of SCN-series terminals.

Photos and video

All images below are original KOEED warehouse photos. Click any photo to view it full size.

Two glasses stacked
Two glasses as received: transparent touch layers with their side electrode strips and the gold FPC tails folded across — fresh from the static bags.
Single glass
One glass laid flat: the full rectangular touch layer, its gasket frame around the edge, and the gold FPC tail extending from the right — the digitizer as it laminates over a display.
FPC gold fingers
The FPC in close-up: the gold trace fingers running up the tail to the bonded connector end.
5-pin connector
The 5-pin connector at close range: the five contact cavities in the black housing — the mate for the touch controller's socket.
FPC label
The FPC label in full: ēlo TOUCHSYSTEMS, cULus mark, P/N: E918135, REV.J, S/N: B10C001079, SCN-, Made in China — the identity a parts desk resolves.
Connector reverse
The connector from the reverse, with the Elo label edge and the glass in frame behind.
Ten glasses laid out
All ten laid out in two rows of five: every glass with its FPC tail and connector — the full lot as received.
Glass with static bag
One glass beside its pink anti-static bag: the shipping condition as delivered.
Single glass side
One glass from the side: the gasket frame, the electrode strip in its channel, and the FPC crossing to the connector.
FPC circuitry
The FPC circuitry: the gold traces and the marking — ater P/E753284, E317699 CT-3, UL — the flex's own certification trail.
FPC tail
The FPC tail at full resolution: the trace lanes converging to the 5-pin black connector — the tail a replacement must not crease.
Glass edge engraving
The glass edge engraving: H526, © 2011 Tyco Electronics Corporation, Designed in Menlo Park USA — the design provenance printed into the glass itself.
Inspection video: the touch glasses as they were checked at the KOEED warehouse.

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