Touch plate assembly

A touch plate assembly for entering information into a digital control circuit, comprising:

• a flat dielectric plate having front and back faces;
• a plurality of touch switches on said plate, each said touch switch including a first electrically conductive area on the front face of said dielectric plate representing certain information to be entered into said control circuit, and spaced apart input and output electrically conductive contact areas on the back face of said plate, said input and output contact areas underlying said first electrically conductive area;
• a printed circuit board containing circuitry for detecting the activation of said touch switches;
• housing means for holding said dielectric plate and said printed circuit board substantially parallel to one another;
• resilient electrical contact means for making electrical contact from the circuitry on said printed circuit board to each input and output conductive contact area, said resilient electrical contact means comprising a plurality of resilient bifurcated contacts extending from said printed circuit board toward said dielectric plate, each said bifurcated contact abutting against one of said contact areas to make electrical contact thereto.