Communications: electrical – Continuously variable indicating – With meter reading
Patent
1982-12-22
1985-10-01
Weldon, Ulysses
Communications: electrical
Continuously variable indicating
With meter reading
307140, 340365S, 455127, H04Q 900, G06F 100
Patent
active
045449244
ABSTRACT:
In a battery operated, remote transmitter for a consumer instrument, a microprocessor controls operation of the transmitter. The collector current path of an on-off transistor is coupled between the battery and a voltage supply terminal of the microprocessor. To power up the microprocessor, a keyboard switch in the transmitter is depressed to activate a separate latch that is coupled to the base of the on-off transistor. Base current flows to the latch to turn on the transistor and apply the battery voltage to the voltage supply terminal of the microprocessor. After completion of the transmitter signaling, the microprocessor switches an output port to the ground state. The output port is coupled to a control terminal of the latch and bypasses holding current from a portion of the latch to initiate the regenerative deactivation of the latch. With the latch deactivated, conduction of the on-off transistor is cut off. The voltage supply terminal of the microprocessor is disconnected from the battery to power down the remote transmitter.
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COPS Microcontrollers Databook, 1982, by National Semiconductor Corporation.
Page 23 of RCA Corporation "Color Television Basic Service Data-CTC-111 Series", copyright 1982 and published in Apr. 1982.
Laks Joseph J.
Rasmussen Paul J.
RCA Corporation
Weldon Ulysses
Whitacre Eugene M.
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