Welcome to Winmate Bonding Laboratories!! Maybe you are quite new to Winmate, or maybe you are our old friends. We would like to share you great news: Winmate has launched a new production line, clean room, and bonding laboratories for Optical Bonding. Our vision is to build up new standards through our innovations that can create much more added-values for our customers. We welcome you to join us to share the enormous opportunity ahead of us!

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Optical Bonding Technologies

What is Optical Bonding?

• Optical Bonding use liquid gel to laminate/ affix the cover glass or touchscreen on the front of the LCD panel. The air gap between the cover glass and the panel is completely filled with silicon-based gel/ adhesive. The assembly is cured in a process that affixes the panel together while solidifying the adhesive

Benefit–Improves Ruggedness

• Optical bonding improves impact/scratch resistance!
• Adhesive provides adequate bond strength to prevent safety issues of broken glass

Benefit–Increases Anti-Shock/ Vibration Capabilities

• Optical bonding increases resistance to mechanical shock and vibration!
  

Benefit–Prevents Condensation

• Transportation
• Navigation
• Outdoor kiosk
• Gas pump
• Maritime application
• Avionics application
• Rugged Tablet PC
  

• Prevents condensation and fogging in high humidity, salt water
  
• Improves outdoor readability
• Increases durability to withstand wide temperature, shock and vibration
• Increases impact and resistance
  

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How to choose between Winmate’s different solutions of improving Sunlight readability?

Winmate offer different approach to enhance the display to have better viewability near sunlight. Depends on your application scenes, different technology will be use to solve the problems caused by bright lights.
Here is the Comparison table among solutions

• Winmate provide in-house capability of design and manufacturing for optical bonding
  
• We are flexible to apply this technology to our current display/ touch display/ panel pc/ Rugged solution
• We provide component solution as well as system level solution (with Tested/ Certified products!)
  
  

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TFT displays are traditionally mounted with protective cover glass or touch screens,
adding layers to the optical path which can create reflections, glare and image
distortion. This also requires the display to have a more powerful backlight in order
to compensate for decreased readability in bright environments. Optical bonding uses a
silicone-based adhesive instead to add the cover glass or touch screen, which
ultimately increases display contrast and also seals and protects the display.

Optically-bonded displays also require less backlight wattage, which decreases heat,
improves product reliability and lessens energy consumption. Finally, for battery-
powered products, decreasing the power required to illuminate the backlight helps avoid
excessive battery drain
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Why would Optical bonding help to improve Contrast Ratio of the display?

Contrast ratio of a display in high ambient lighting levels requires that both specular
and diffuse reflections from the display be carefully controlled. These can be
minimized by the use of AR coatings on the front surface of the display. For LCD
display, this cannot easily be directly applied because the depositions must be done
under conditions which will severely degrade the display materials.

Therefore, a secondary optical element must be considered, which can be a glass cover
plate that has the antireflection coating applied to it. However, if this glass cover
plate is merely physically mounted in front of the LCD, there are still major
reflection problems. The inherent LCD reflection is unaffected and reflections from the
rear surface of the overlay will worsen the situation. Optical bonding can reduce these
unwanted reflections.

Does optical bonding change a display’s optical characteristics or operating temperature range?
No. Optical bonding only alters the surface of the display rather than the components,
so the optical characteristics or operating temperature will not change.

What applications can benefit from optical bonding?
Any display in an outdoor environment or high ambient light conditions can be improved
with optical bonding. Example applications include in-vehicle displays and digital
signage, defibrillators, marine displays and in-flight entertainment systems.

Where does the optical bonding process occur?
Winmate's optical bonding laboratory is located in Taiwan. The facility includes a
class 10,000 clean room with focused workstation environments of Class 1000 to ensure
proper handling of your displays during the enhancement process. We welcome visitors to
our facility and will gladly show off our optical bonding and other display enhancement
capabilities.

Will optical bonding be available on your standard products?
Yes. Winmate has a wide array of standard catalog items across a variety of
applications and display technologies. Almost all of our standard products can include
our optical bonding service.

Has any reliability testing of the bonding process?
Yes, we have tested the critical performance metrics to a battery of military
environmental and industrial standards, which include temperature cycling and
temperature shock extremes, humidity, mechanical shock and vibration, liquid and dust
ingress.

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