Systems for displaying analog values

Details Systems for displaying analog values Systems for displaying analog values

1975-05-05

1979-08-07

Trafton, David L.

Communications: electrical

Land vehicle alarms or indicators

Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...

313484, 313217, 315366, 340773, 340775, 340789, 340661, G01D 700

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041639715

ABSTRACT:
In the system disclosed a driving circuit repeatedly scans along a plurality of aligned electrodes in an enclosure filled with ionizable gas, by sequentially grounding the aligned electrodes and repeating the process cyclically. Within each cycle, a pulse width modulator energizes an anode opposite the electrodes for a period of time corresponding to an input value. Sequential glow discharges thus occur between the cathodes and the anode over a portion of the anode length. The discharges occur with sufficient rapidity so that they are observed as an illuminated portion of a bar formed by the electrodes. A second set of electrodes is scanned and an opposing anode energized to produce two illuminated bands separated from each other. Desired upper and lower set point limits for the input quantity determine the lengths of the bands and the separation between them. According to one embodiment, the separate bands are initiated from opposite ends of the bar formed by the electrode alignment with suitable reset cathodes. The driver forms one band from one end of the aligned electrodes and the other band from the other end of the aligned electrodes. According to another embodiment the space between the bands is formed by decreasing the anode current only enough to reduce the glow.

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