Custom Displays

Why Make Focus LCDs Your Choice For New Product Designs?

Over 15 years of experience developing custom display modules and customized electronic assemblies based on your specification. The staff at Focus LCDs lives, breathes, and supplies only display technology and your support doesn&#;t stop at a sales person. Customer support flows through our company and every employee is focused on getting you exactly what you want. If it is low quantity, low price, fast delivery or the most oddball design ever seen, the entire Focus team will work together to get you a display that meets your requirements.

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Designing Your Custom LCD

Focus Display Solutions (Focus LCDs) has supported customers with custom LCD modules from automotive, medical and test equipment to industrial applications. Whether your design requires a small LCD, or a fully customized LCD module, our experienced technical customer support can assist you in designing your custom display.

The process begins with you supplying your dimensions and segment content/artwork. Our team will work with you and advise on the most practical design for your project. This includes the need for a power budget or a low current draw LCD. Design considerations for your customized LCD will include the type of interface, backlight options, power consumption, space constraints, touch panel options, half-life and more!

Custom LCD modules are a standard business practice for us. From the very simple modifications of an existing display to complete new product designs, we welcome your request. The process to take your LCD idea from a concept to having prototype samples in hand is simple and requires just the few steps listed below. (Download PDF)

Lead Time For Custom LCDs

In many cases, FocusLCDs&#; lead time for custom LCD samples is as little as 6-7 weeks after you approve our counter drawings and data sheet. This lead time increases by 4-6 weeks between November to early February due to Chinese New year. Standard production orders for custom displays have a lead time of 10-12 weeks, which can increase by 2-4 weeks during Chinese New year.

Custom LCD Technologies

Focus Display Solutions offers several LCD technologies. The majority of these displays can be customized to fit your need. Below is a short introduction to each type of LCD.

UWVD

Ultra-Wide Viewing Display (UWVD) is a new technology that is named after one of its most notable characteristics &#; it is viewable from all angles. In addition to the viewing angle, this technology provides a better contrast than other options and can allow for multiple colors. Call one of our design specialists today to see if UWVD is the right technology for you.

Features

• High contrast
• Readable from nearly all angles
• Low tooling and unit prices
• Utilization of multiple colors
• Touch panel options available
• Fully customizable

TFTs

Thin-Film-Transistor Liquid Crystal Displays (TFTs) are perhaps the most encountered display technology we see daily. Often seen in cell phones, tablets, cameras and countless other devices, this technology offers several hundreds of thousands of colors with a high pixel count to offer supreme visual clarity. In addition, all TFTs are available off the shelf with resistive and capacitive touch panel options

Features

• Broad selection of off the shelf products
• Sunlight readable options available
• Capacitive and Resistive options available for every display
• Most products are kept in stock and can ship same day
• Multiple interfaces available
• Customizable FPC cables, LED backlights, and bezels

Character LCDs

Character LCDs have been around since the s and are still very common. These displays offer 256 selectable characters and are available with several different font tables to show a variety of languages. They are most commonly known for their ease of programming wide variety of sizes, character arrays and colors.

Features

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• Wide variety of off the shelf items ranging from 8x1 to 40x4 characters
• Multiple size and color options available
• Most products kept in stock and can ship same day
• Quick and easy programming
• Low power consumption
• Fully customizable

Graphic LCDs

Graphic LCDs can display fully changeable graphics. It is a common option for applications that need to display many different menus or need the ability to display several different fonts and font sizes. In addition to the changing graphics, it also can provide optimal sunlight readability with low power consumption.

Features

• Wide variety of off the shelf sizes and resolutions
• Most products kept in stock and can ship same day
• Sunlight readable
• Low power consumption
• Fully customizable

Segment LCDs

Segment LCDs, AKA static LCDs or glass LCDs are easily identified by their fixed graphics and calculator like digits. This is one of the first LCD technologies created and is still one of the most popular due to the low piece price and low price of customization. Nearly every segment LCD is custom designed to meet your requirements.

Features

• Fully customizable
• Low piece price
• Low tooling price
• Sunlight readable
• Ultra-low power consumption
• Ultra-wide temperature rating

If you have ever wondered what it took to make your own custom graphic LCD from scratch, this video from [Applied Science] is worth a watch. It&#;s concise and to the point, while still telling you what you need to know should you be interested in rolling your own. There is also a related video which goes into much more detail about experimenting with LCD technology.

[Applied Science] used microscope slides and parts purchased online to make an LCD that displays a custom graphic when activated. The only step that home experimenters might have trouble following is coating the glass slides with a clear conductive layer, which in the video is done via a process called sputtering to deposit a thin film. You don&#;t need to do this yourself, though. Pre-coated glass is readily available online. (Search for Indium-Tin Oxide or &#;ITO&#; coated glass.)

The LCD consists of a layer of liquid crystal suspended between two layers of conductive glass. An electrical field is used to change the orientation of crystals in the suspension, which modulate the light passing through them. Polarizing filters result in a sharp contrast and therefore a visible image. To show a particular shape, some of the conductive coating is removed from one of the layers in the shape of the desired image. The process [Applied Science] uses to do this is nearly identical to etching a custom PCB.

Parts of LCD technology can be quite hackable. Neither of these videos are brand-new, either. Have any of you taken on the challenge of DIY LCD displays? We&#;ve seen experiments with electrochromatic glass using old LCD displays, as well as experiments in playing with polarized light to hide secret messages on LCD screens.

Thanks to [Samuel A. Falvo II] for the tip!

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