Abstract: A glazing panel and hollow glazing panel, the hollow glazing panel including a first pane, a second pane held in spaced-apart, face-to-face relationship with the first pane, and a plurality of localized damping members positioned between the first and second panes, adherent thereto, and distributed therebetween over the area of the opposing faces thereof, wherein the first pane comprises a pair of vitreous sheets and an intervening layer of polymeric material separating the sheets of the pair and to which the sheets adhere, wherein the first pane has a shape, an area, and a total mass of vitreous material, and may be compared to a notional monolithic vitreous sheets having a coincidence frequency (.phi..sub.m) and a critical frequency of coincidence, wherein the first pane has a coincidence frequency (.phi..sub.

Abstract: A tactile screen for determining the coordinates of a point on a surface is formed by a support of glass, for example, which carries relatively spaced conductive strips made up of emitting and receiving strips in interjacent relation. The screen is intended to be touched by an object such as a user's finger in order to establish an electrical bridge between an emitting strip and a receiving strip. The conductive strips are converted with a membrane for providing the conductive strips with mechanical and electrical protection, the surface of the membrane which is adjacent to the conductive strips being conductive. The electrical resistance per unit area of the conductive surface is distinctly higher than that of the conductive strips when the membrane is not touched.

Abstract: A screen is disclosed on the surface of which a certain number of resistant conducting emitter strips and insulated conducting receiver strips are laid, the emitter strips being parallel-mounted with the terminals of a voltage generator and the receiver strips being interlaid between the receiver strips such that a conducting receiver strip lies between two resistant emitter strips. The electronics of control comprises an exploring stage to control the receiver strip time-related exploration. Thus, when a sufficiently conducting object used to indicate a point, has touched the surface and bridges an emitter strip and a receiver strip, a higher potential is detected on the corresponding receiver strip and the ordinate Y is given by the strip order number--while the abscissa X is calculated from measuring the potential between each ends of the emitter strip and the object.