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EP0018483B1 - Dispositif d'affichage numérique à commande électromécanique - Google Patents

Dispositif d'affichage numérique à commande électromécanique Download PDF

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EP0018483B1
EP0018483B1 EP80101232A EP80101232A EP0018483B1 EP 0018483 B1 EP0018483 B1 EP 0018483B1 EP 80101232 A EP80101232 A EP 80101232A EP 80101232 A EP80101232 A EP 80101232A EP 0018483 B1 EP0018483 B1 EP 0018483B1
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Dietmar Hummel
Felix Müller
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Digital Kienzle Computersysteme GmbH and Co KG
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F9/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements
    • G09F9/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
    • G09F9/37—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being movable elements
    • G09F9/375—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being movable elements the position of the elements being controlled by the application of a magnetic field
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F9/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements
    • G09F9/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
    • G09F9/302—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements characterised by the form or geometrical disposition of the individual elements
    • G09F9/3023—Segmented electronic displays
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F9/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements
    • G09F9/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
    • G09F9/37—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being movable elements

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  • the invention relates to an electromechanically operable numerical display device with seven flaps which can be swiveled electromagnetically in two defined positions, in which parts of a figure-eight-shaped contour formed in a continuous line behind them can be exposed by swiveling away individual flap elements and in which the flap elements on the lower left, the upper left and the lower right upper corner are provided with congruently diagonally running sections and the upper of the two flap elements running on the right side from top to bottom is cut off at the level of the upper edge of the central crossbar of the contour.
  • a large number of training forms of digital display devices are known, in which a representation of the number “8” over an arrangement of seven segments or bars forms the basis, on the basis of which all the numbers from 0 to 9 can also be represented by appropriate control of the individual segments .
  • a number indicator consists of a display panel attached on the front, in which a system of columns is provided for the numbers to be displayed.
  • An electromagnetically actuable segment is provided behind each gap and can be controlled accordingly in an indicating and a non-indicating position. To emphasize the indicating part of the segment, this part of the segment is set against the surface of the panel by high-contrast coloring.
  • the same closes the gap and is color-coordinated with the surface of the panel, so that from a distance the closed columns of the system are barely noticeable.
  • all digit symbols from 0 to 9 can be represented.
  • the swivel-mounted segments are controlled into the indicating or non-indicating position by means of a magnetic field device which can be acted upon accordingly.
  • this type of representation of a digit has the disadvantage that each digit to be displayed consists of several individual segments or is divided into such. Since the display elements must be individually controllable, it is practically not possible on this basis of the representation of the numbers to display the number image in a continuous line. This also means that the legibility and overall the aesthetic impression of a multi-digit number are severely impaired.
  • Another known display device consists of a front window plate which has seven elongated openings for making the display components visible, the openings being spaced apart in the form of an “ 8 ”.
  • a mounting plate held at a distance via cylindrical spacer elements, on which seven display components are rotatably mounted.
  • the display components are arranged in such a way that they are moved from a stable rest position, where the display components are invisible behind the front window plate, via a rotation angle movement into another, also stable display position, where the display components, which are designed in a contrasting color to the surroundings, are finally placed in the openings of the Front window plate appear and read together represent the symbol of a number.
  • This known number display device also does not represent an optimal solution, since the number image is again formed by the contrasting colored segments or bars that are swung into the associated windows. With this solution, there will always be gaps at the transitions between two segments, which are perceived as an unpleasant break in the line. In this solution, too, these interruptions adversely affect the property of legibility and the aesthetic appearance.
  • the cover segments arranged for exposure and which can be pivoted away are arranged symmetrically, however, and cut the lines of the figure of eight in the area of the central crossbar.
  • a substantial part of the figure-forming figure remains hidden in the transition area from the central crossbar to the side bars.
  • the number-forming line is partially interrupted. This significantly complicates the legibility of the numerical images concerned (these are 2, 4, 5, 6 and 9) and gives the impression of an incomplete figure in relation to the appearance of a number.
  • the numerical image is represented by swiveling in a selection from seven bar elements that can be moved into the field of view.
  • Using the individual swiveling bar elements to depict the structure of a digit leaves no option open to form the digit image in a continuous line.
  • the illustration of the individual digits becomes inconsistent and difficult to read.
  • the overlapping beam elements namely describe a circular arc when swiveled in and require large distances in their range of motion both to the side and in the height of the parts of the beam elements lying one above the other.
  • the offsets on the overlapping bar elements appear optically as an interruption of the lines, and from an angle perspective of the observer, such an illustration of a number is difficult to read.
  • the object of the invention is to find an arrangement and design of seven flap elements which can be pivoted electromagnetically in two defined positions in an electromechanically operable numerical display device, such that the actuated certain combinations of flap elements make the numerical images thus exposed largely uninterrupted in line and with a constant bar width can be represented.
  • the vertically extending flap elements are designed in different length dimensions and the tangent cutting lines between the individual flap elements are each placed in an area which, based on the number-forming figure, gives an optimal appearance when covering the number to be displayed.
  • the arrangement of the cut line in the vertical flap elements on the right in accordance with the top edge and correspondingly in the flap elements on the left in accordance with the bottom edge of the center crossbar nowhere in the cover is the number-forming figure deformed by a partial constriction.
  • the number display device according to the invention consists of a cuboid deep-drawn housing 1 with a rear Front window opening 2 in the form of a parallelogram (Fig. 1, 1a, 2).
  • a plate 11 provided with an octagonal, raised contour 9, is connected in one piece (one piece) to the housing 1 at four connecting webs 3, 4, 5, 6 (FIGS. 1, 2) to the rear inner side walls. intended.
  • the connecting webs 3, 4, 5, 6 between the plate 11 and the housing 1 are initially designed as pillars which run perpendicularly into the interior of the housing at the corners of the contour 9 and which then connected laterally via the connecting webs 3, 4, 5, 6 to the housing side walls as a carrier element.
  • the raised figure-of-eight contour 9 protrudes forward from the image plane and thus projects beyond the surfaces of a front frame 30 of the housing 1 and a cover surface 31 of the plate 11, which cover the window opening 2, in the same plane.
  • the area essential for the numerical representation can be coated with dye or the like in a simple area printing process. Then, by means of a continuous line, the numerical image of a stylized “8” is created, from which all other digit symbols from “0” to “9” can also be represented in uninterrupted lines (except for “2”) by covering individual bar-shaped lines.
  • the color contrast of the visibly exposed line in cooperation with the contour 9 emerging from the image plane of the housing 1 visually conveys a sharp and clearly perceptible outline of the displayed symbols.
  • the number “8” appears when all seven flap elements 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 are pivoted away.
  • the flap elements 21, 22 to 27 are advantageously made of the same material as the housing 1 or are designed to match the color of the front frame 30 and the cover surface 31 such that the contour 9 is completely covered when the flap elements 21, 22 to 27 are pivoted in and Even from a short distance, no outlines of the arrangement of the seven flap elements 21, 22 to 27 set to cover the symbol-giving contour 9 according to FIG. 1a can be perceived.
  • FIG. 2 an example of the display of the number “3” shows how a partial image is created by partially concealing and releasing the contour 9. Thereafter, the number “3” is created by controlling the flap elements 25 and 26 into the covering position, while at the same time the remaining five flap elements 21, 22, 23, 24 and 27 are controlled in the opposite direction into the release position.
  • the flap elements 21, 22 to 27 are designed and arranged in such a way that they are provided with diagonally extending sections 34 at the corners of the figure of eight symbol (FIGS. 1a and 2) and so equally for the cover as for the release of parts of the digit-forming contour 9 enable an optimal typeface.
  • This measure means the following in its functional effect: If the flap element 23 or the flap element 26 is pivoted away to form a numerical image for the visible release of the contour 9 arranged underneath, while the flap elements 22 and 27 respectively arranged in their extension remain swung in, whereby the Flap elements 22 and 25 exposed parts of the contour 9 remain hidden, then the transition of the central crossbar 27/1 to the vertical bars of the contour 9 appears in a continuous flowing line.
  • the lines of the characters or the bar width are not affected by any sections or constrictions. With regard to the aesthetic appearance and thus the legibility, it is only in this way that a complete figure of a digit can be achieved.

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  1. Dispositif d'affichage numérique à commande électromécanique avec sept volets (21 à 27) orientables, par voie électromagnétique, en deux positions définies, dans lequel l'escamotage de différents éléments de volet permet de dégager des tronçons d'un contour (9) en forme de huit réalisé derrière, en une ligne continue, et dans lequel les éléments de volet (21, 22, 24 à 26) sont pourvus, aux coins inférieur gauche, supérieur gauche et supérieur droit, de sections (34) à parcours diagonal coïncident et que l'élément de volet supérieur (22) des deux éléments de volet s'étendant, du côté droit, de haut en bas, est coupé au niveau de l'arête supérieure (27/3) de la barre transversale médiane (27/1) du contour (9), caractérisé par le fait, que les éléments de volet (26, 25) recouvrant le contour (9) en forme de huit et s'étendant, du côté gauche, de haut en bas, sont coupés au niveau de l'arête inférieure (27/2) de la barre transversale médiane (27/1) du contour (9) et que l'élément de volet inférieur (23) des deux éléments s'etendant, du côté droit, de haut en bas, est coupé coïncident avec l'élément de volet supérieur (22) de ces deux éléments de volet au niveau de l'arête supérieure (27/3) de la barre transversale médiane (27/1) du contour (9) et que les éléments de volet (23, 24) sont aussi pourvus, au coin inférieur gauche, de sections (34) à parcours diagonal coïncident.
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