Coded data generation or conversion – Bodily actuated code generator – Including keyboard or keypad
Patent
1989-10-05
1991-12-03
DeMeo, Palmer C.
Coded data generation or conversion
Bodily actuated code generator
Including keyboard or keypad
341 22, 341 27, H03M 1100
Patent
active
050703307
ABSTRACT:
A keyboard (2) has two transverse arrays of conductors (R0-R13, C0-C7) defining a number of rows and columns of cross-points at each of which a key is positioned whereby depression of a key causes the conductors at the corresponding cross-points to be electrically connected. A scanning device (1) connected to each of the conductors and adapted during a scanning operation to apply a high or low potential to all the conductors of the two arrays and subsequently sequentially to apply a potential of the opposite type to each conductor of one array and to monitor the potential of the conductors of the other array such that if the potential of a conductor of the other array changes, this indicates that the key at the corresponding cross-point is depressed. The scanning device is connected directly to each of the conductors of the arrays, and an indicating device (4,5) is connected between one of the row conductors and a power supply, the condition of the indicating device being determined in accordance with the potential on the row conductor. A diode (7,9) is connected between the row conductor (R10) and the indicating device (5) so that if a cross-point (17) connected to the row conductor is depressed at the same time as a cross-point (18) in an adjacent row and the same column, the condition of the indicating device will not change when the adjacent row is scanned.
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IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, vol. 27, No. 4A, Sep., 1984.
Acer Incorporated
DeMeo Palmer C.
Weissman Peter S.
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