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Methode's field-effect, touch-screen, and integrated-lighting technologies enable customers to differentiate their user-interface products in consumer and commercial markets. With over 200 million touch cells in the field, industry leaders such as Coca-Cola®, Electrolux®, General Electric® and Whirlpool® have employed our technologies to help create market-leading products.
Methode is... innovative technology, improving products for the home and business.
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Pleasing aesthetics, intuitive functionality, efficiency and durability are hallmarks of the technology, design and engineering that Methode brings to consumer and commercial products. From developing the first-of-its-kind high-impact touch screen for appliances to providing tactile-feedback control panels for shower system controls or heating-element systems with carbon-fiber technology for warming food during transport, Methode offers a wide variety of innovative solutions.
Methode's TouchSensor™ technology makes exercise more personal with immediate, accurate feedback between the user and machine. Providing interactive, tactile control in the handle grips or console panel, our technology allows users to tailor their exercise sessions to their own needs.
In the fast-paced food and beverage market, durability and reliability are critical to customer service. Using Methode's TouchCell™ technology, we have engineered solutions that eliminate switch failures and extend product life by years.
Methode's TouchCell, tactile haptic feedback, biometrics and projected capacitive technologies are designed to meet the high-traffic, harsh-environment requirements of our customers. Our state-of-the-art, custom-engineered solutions provide a means for OEMs to offer differentiated market-leading products that meet consumer needs.
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Methode's TouchSensor™ division has redefined user interface touch interaction and touch activation, designing nearly 12 million custom user interface panels for some of the world's best brands and harshest environments. With expert engineering design centers on three continents, Methode brings creative design and rugged reliability together for unprecedented innovation, performance, style, and user experience. |
IntuiTek’s breakthrough user interface technology is now conveniently integrated in Methode's trusted, off-the-shelf standard modular user interface components and Rotary Haptic Controller. |
Methode's Biometric Sensing, using multi-spectral imaging, enables identity verification based on the unique characteristics of human skin structure. Personal recognition from unique physical attributes offers a powerful tool for identity management. |
Methode offers three contact technologies for high current power connectors: PowerBud™, WovenBud™ and the RK Series. All of our contact systems offer superior electrical performance, including lower resistance, higher cycle life and lower insertion force, to meet our customers' demanding requirements. |
Methode has been formulating and manufacturing Polymer Thick Film (PTF) inks for the electronics industry for over forty years. As experts in developing conductive and resistive inks, Methode has developed innovative aqueous-based inkjet conductive inks for the growing printed electronics market, and print-and-assemble sensor assemblies. Our assemblies can be customized to meet your physical layout, substrate material, electrical conductivity and durability needs. Utilized in applications like fuel level, throttle position, printer media detection, RFID and patient oxygen sensing, these sensors incorporate our conductive and resistive design expertise. |
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TouchSensor™ is the unchallenged leader in touch-activated user interface. Innovative field-effect technology requires no software, has no moving parts to wear out, and is field-proven with over 200 million digital touch-sensitive switches in use around the world. |
HapticsMethode's haptic sensory feedback offers revolutionary features that are not possible with traditional mechanical switches, touch screens, and encoders, including context sensitivity, precision control, and programmable tactile feedback. |
Robust identity verification using proven multi-spectral imaging technology that verifies unique characteristics of the user’s finger at the cellular level. With this technology, you can expect complete accuracy, in any environment. |
Methode’s non-contact sensing capacitive technology utilizes relative phase shift to determine displacement between fixed stator and reflective electrodes. |
A non-contact solution, eddy current technology offers highly accurate position sensing of a metallic target without the use of a magnet. |
Optical technology uses photo detectors, lens systems and code disks to perform non-contact, high resolution, angle, phase and absolute position measurement. |
Electro-mechanical sensing technology offers the discrete motion detection of linear and rotary contacts. |
Utilizing a hall or GMR effect sensor, hall effect technology is the non-contact detection of a moving magnetic target. |
Methode’s aqueous-based screen printed cermet, Polymer Thick Film (PTF) and inkjet printable conductive inks are used for a wide range of application-specific sensor substrates. |
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One of the world's largest white-goods OEMs approached TouchSensor™ to design a user interface with consumer electronics-like performance for their premium brand’s new wall oven |
A potential customer's existing range of products did not significantly stand out from the competition or adequately project the quality and functionality they offered. |
The customer’s technical team was intrigued by TouchSensor’s software-free TS100 field-effect touch technology. Capable of being mounted on standard printed circuit board material… |
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| MAY 8, 2013 | Chicago, IL – May 8, 2013 - Methode Development Company (MDC), a division of Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: MEI), a global developer of custom engineered and application specific products and solutions, announced the release of an improved development kit that allows engineers to create functional electrical circuits with a piezo electric printhead inkjet desktop printer, eliminating tooling and reducing development time.
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| APR 18, 2013 | Chicago, IL – April 18, 2013 - Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: MEI), a global developer of custom engineered and application specific products and solutions, today announced it has been named one of “America’s 100 Most Trustworthy Companies” by Forbes for the second year in a row.
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| APR 17, 2013 | Wheaton, IL – April 17, 2013 - TouchSensor™ Technologies, a division of Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: MEI), a global developer of custom engineered and application specific products and solutions, announced today the introduction of the LevelGuard® Sewage-Rated Pump Switch. The LevelGuard® Sewage Pump Switch offers pump and plumbing professionals a solid-state product…
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| DEC 7, 2012 | Methode’s battery and power solutions garnered a lot of interest and excitement at the Battery Show 2012 in Detroit, MI this past November, and we’re proud and honored that Engineering TV stopped by our booth and recorded two interviews with us at the show.
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| NOV 29, 2012 | Chicago, IL - November 29, 2012 - Methode Electronics, Inc. (Methode) (NYSE: MEI), a global designer and manufacturer of electro-mechanical devices and a leader in conductive inks for printed electronics, will exhibit at the ID Tech Printed Electronics USA 2012 tradeshow, Booth # G04, on December 5&6, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.
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| MAY 25, 2012 | TouchSensor® Technologies, a division of Methode Electronics, Inc., announced the introduction of a new and improved LevelGuard® Electronic Sump Pump Switch model. The LevelGuard sump pump switch utilizes TouchSensor’s patented Field-Effect sensing technology to detect water at two upper level and one lower level switch points. The new model offers technological improvements as well as additional cord lengths.
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| MAY 8, 2012 | Methode has been nominated for the 2012 Telematics Newcomer Award for its industrial-grade biometric fingerprint sensor solution for motorized vehicles. Methode caught the attention of the telematics industry by leveraging Lumidigm’s Multi-Spectral Imaging biometric sensor into a truly capable solution for rugged telematics environments.
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| MAY 8, 2012 | Methode was named a 2012 Automotive News PACE Award winner at an awards ceremony on April 23 in Detroit. The prestigious award recognizes automotive suppliers for superior innovation, technological advancement and business performance. The product innovation award recognizes innovations in new products or components or systems that have significant market impact and act as “game changers” in the automotive industry.
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| APR 26, 2012 | dataMate™, a division of Methode Electronics, Inc.’s (NYSE: MEI) Data Solutions Group, announced today the development of a patent pending SFP+ cage system with advanced thermal management features to prevent data error and hardware failure due to excessive heat.
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| APR 6, 2012 | Forbes recently identified what they called, "the most transparent and trustworthy businesses that trade on American exchanges," utilizing quantitative and qualitative analysis to look beyond the raw data on public companies’ income statements and balance sheets to assess the true quality of corporate accounting and management practices.
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| JAN 24, 2012 | Methode Power Solutions Group will have a significant presence at AABC this year, emphasizing its industry leading technologies, products and a global manufacturing footprint.
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| JAN 24, 2012 | Methode Power Solutions Group will have a significant presence at APEC this year with an emphasis on its industry leading power technologies, products and a global manufacturing footprint.
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| JAN 24, 2012 | Methode Electronics Power Solutions Group, a division of Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:MEI), today announced its cable and wire termination technology, known as FusionLug™, is now Underwriter Laboratories (UL) recognized.
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| JAN 9, 2012 | Methode Electronics will be showcasing their first automotive-grade TouchScreen in Atmel’s booth (#MP2552) at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 10 – 14 2012.
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| NOV 14, 2011 | Hetronic passes its ISO 9001; 2008 audit and adds two new partners under the ISO 9001 umbrella, showing a commitment to quality and customer needs.
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| NOV 11, 2011 | New Hetronic RC Receiver - the RX ES CAN-HL translates to any mobile operation such as loader cranes and concrete pumps, but also has other field applications like mining, boat lifts and digger derricks...
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| NOV 11, 2011 | Hetronic's annual Partner's Meeting to be held on April 15th, 2011, in conjunction with participation in INTERMAT 2012.
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| OCT 6, 2010 | Computerworld notes that suppliers and data centers are increasingly promoting the use of RFID tags on IT equipment for asset tracking and management. Methode Data Solutions Group was interviewed by Computerworld and named as a solutions provider. Me
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| SEP 20, 2010 | Technical Expertise in Medical Devices Helps Trace Labs Assist Customers with Their Testing Needs
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| MAY 21, 2007 | Methode Development Company, a subsidiary of Methode Electronics, Inc., has developed a lightweight and portable food-warming storage solution that uses Methode’s own carbon-fiber heating technology...
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