Electrical pulse counters – pulse dividers – or shift registers: c – Applications – Registering counts for different categories
Patent
1989-12-29
1991-08-06
Heyman, John S.
Electrical pulse counters, pulse dividers, or shift registers: c
Applications
Registering counts for different categories
377 15, 377 30, 377112, 434362, 235 91G, 235100, 307603, G09B 700, G06M 306, H03K 1728
Patent
active
050383671
ABSTRACT:
A polling device (10) includes a housing (12), pushbuttons (14, 16) mounted on the housing for receiving customer responses to an inquiry, circuitry for counting and storing the number of times each pushbutton (14, 16) is depressed, and a time delay circuit for disabling the counting circuitry for a predetermined period of time after one of the pushbuttons has been depressed for discouraging repetitive voting. A display unit (46) for reading and displaying the number of times each pushbutton (14, 16) has been depressed is also provided.
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Eakins Darwin
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