RESISTIVE TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAYS AND SYSTEMS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize reliable and long-life resistive touch panels.SOLUTION: Touch screen displays and touch screen systems are provided. A touch screen 400 includes, but is not limited to: a rigid lower substrate 110 having a top face; a plurality of parallel conductive scan lines 210, 410 located on the top face of the rigid substrate; a plurality of parallel conductive sense lines 230, 420 located on the top face of the rigid substrate; a plurality of dielectric pads 250 located at junctions 450 of the plurality of scan lines and the plurality of sense lines, which electrically isolate the plurality of scan lines from the plurality of sense lines; and an array of conductive mechanisms 300 located on the bottom face of a flexible substrate 120. When the flexible substrate is flexed, at least one of the conductive mechanisms completes a conductive pathway between one of the plurality of conductive scan lines and one of the plurality of conductive sense lines.