Education and demonstration – Vehicle operator instruction or testing
Patent
1991-07-05
1993-06-29
Apley, Richard J.
Education and demonstration
Vehicle operator instruction or testing
434 30, 434 43, G09B 900
Patent
active
052228932
ABSTRACT:
An assemblage of instruments such as in an aircraft instrument panel, either actually in an aircraft or training simulator pictured in various states of activation, are positioned behind a selectively programmed viewing device. Various individual instruments are programmed for viewing (one or more) while the remainder of the instruments are obscured behind a ported plate having partial instrument indicia on the face thereof and with the pattern of instrument ports having individual windows individually actuated by a control circuit controlling timing and sequence. This is a training aid with timing and sequence viewing improving the viewing comprehension skills of a pilot or student pilot using the training device. One embodiment is a timed and sequentially controlled system using on and off back lighting of individual instruments of a translucent aircraft instrument panel portrayal in order to enhance a users instrument viewing skills. In another embodiment liquid crystal panels are controlled between white translucent scattering and optical clear modes for timed and sequenced through the port viewing of instruments controlled by varied settings of the control circuit.
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Apley Richard J.
Kintzinger Warren H.
Richman Glenn E.
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