EP0247045A1 - Electromagnetic indicator device. - Google Patents
Electromagnetic indicator device.Info
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- EP0247045A1 EP0247045A1 EP86901035A EP86901035A EP0247045A1 EP 0247045 A1 EP0247045 A1 EP 0247045A1 EP 86901035 A EP86901035 A EP 86901035A EP 86901035 A EP86901035 A EP 86901035A EP 0247045 A1 EP0247045 A1 EP 0247045A1
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- Prior art keywords
- display device
- bearing
- electromagnetic display
- plate
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- G—PHYSICS
- G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
- G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
- G09F9/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements
- G09F9/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
- G09F9/37—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being movable elements
- G09F9/375—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being movable elements the position of the elements being controlled by the application of a magnetic field
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- the invention relates to an electromagnetic display device in which a plurality of tilting flaps which are asymmetrical with respect to the axis of rotation are arranged in a matrix on a plate, a polarization magnet being attached to the tilting flap in the vicinity of the axis of rotation and the movement of the rotatably mounted tilting flap 'is carried to a first position to a second position by a dedicated, mounted behind the panel electromagnet.
- EP-OS 00 84 959 describes a display device in which asymmetrical tilting flaps with respect to the axis of rotation can be electromagnetically controlled to cover or to open an opening.
- the tilt flaps are provided with a permanent magnet near the axis of rotation.
- a device for visual representation of characters which consists of mosaic-like display elements arranged side by side in rows and columns (DE-AS 19 35 678), in which the surfaces of the carrier plate which can be covered by the tilting flap on both sides of the axis of rotation correspond to the visible color of the tilt flap are colored.
- the tilting flap is also asymmetrical and semi-circular with respect to the direction of rotation.
- the object of the invention is to provide an electromagnetic display device which has a simpler structure and thus enables more economical production, it also being possible to produce very small embodiments.
- a network of bearing blocks is aligned with the outer edges of the same on the top of the plate, four bearing blocks each forming the points of a square, that each bearing block is the bearing for the pin of one or has the two bearings for the pins of two adjacent triangular tilting flaps, the third axis of which coincides with the hypothesis.
- the arrangement of the bearing blocks, each of which the bearing for the pin of one or the two bearings for the "peg of two adjacent tilting flaps have, tying in Ver ⁇ with the triangular configuration of the tilting flaps is a very compact structure of the display device possible.
- the triangular shape of the tilting flap is the weight distributing 'clothing especially favorable with respect to the rotation axis, it has a greater rate of turnover and greater stability in the end positions result.
- a device for displaying characters in which in each case a row of display elements are arranged on a plate strip forming the row or column of a display matrix at the four corner points of a square, which supports the bearing points form for the disc-shaped reversing flaps. These flaps are symmetrical and rotate about themselves from one display position to the other display position.
- a development of the invention is that the tip of the tilting flap is rounded off 'and the Lagerb-öcke have a mutual constriction.
- Fig. 1 shows the structure of the matrix-shaped display device in plan view
- Fig. 2 shows the two layers of a tilting flap
- Fig. 3 shows the side view of the display device in the form of a section
- Fig. 6 is a tilting flap in top view and ' in side view.
- Fig. 7 two sections through a bearing block.
- the bearing blocks 2 are attached in such a way that they each form the corner points of a square (FIG. 1).
- the bearing blocks 2 lying on the edge of the plate 1 form a bearing for a tilting flap 7, while the other bearing blocks each have the two bearings of two adjacent tilting flaps.
- Plate 1 has 5 columns, each with 7 tilting flaps to represent letters, numbers and characters.
- the electromagnets protrude through the bores 20, as will be explained in more detail below, into the plate 1.
- the bores 20 are covered by a glued-on film 22, which is printed in such a way that, for example, one between four bearing blocks 2 white and black area.
- the tilt flaps 7 are also colored white on one side and black on the other side, so that, depending on the position of the tilt flap, there is a white or a black surface between the bearing blocks forming the corner points of a square.
- the edge of the plate 1 is drawn to the outer bearing blocks 2 to such an extent that an arbitrarily large display area can be formed on each side by lining up further plates 1, the distance between the tilting flaps of two plates 1 lying next to one another being as great as that of two tilting flaps on a plate 1.
- the tilting flap 7 shown in FIG. 2 has two pins 6 lying in the direction of rotation, which are mounted in corresponding bearings 5 of two bearing blocks 2.
- a tilt flap 7 rotates 180 about the axis of rotation 8 and is white on one side and colored black on the other side.
- other color combinations are also conceivable.
- the section shown in Fig. 3 shows ; the tilting flaps 7 in the two positions, the polarization magnet, which will be explained in greater detail below, with its north pole or south pole being close to the soft or remanent core 21 of the electromagnet 19.
- the tilting flaps 7 are actuated by the magnetic field of the electromagnet 19, the direction of which is generated either by a current reversal in the electromagnet 19 or by a further winding. With a retentive core 21 of the electromagnet 19, a vibration-free position of the tilting flaps 7 is ensured.
- the electromagnets 19 are mounted on a printed circuit board 18.
- the plate 1 is provided on its underside with expanding nipples 24 and noses 23.
- the plate 1 has recesses 15 and bores 20 on its underside. Through a corresponding design of the coil body of the electromagnet 19, the latter is centered with its flange 16 in the recesses 15 and possibly also in the bore 20.
- the printed circuit board 18 is provided with bores 28 into which the expanding nipples 24 snap into place . and press the circuit board 18 against the nose 23.
- nuts 25 are attached, which enable the display device consisting of the plate 1 and the printed circuit board 18 to be fastened to a frame (not shown), a plurality of which are shown on the frame (not shown) display devices according to the invention can be attached.
- the pin-shaped core 21 of the electromagnet 19 projects into the vicinity of the surface of the plate 1 into the bore 20, the bore 20 being closed by the film 22 attached to the top of the plate 1.
- the structure of a bearing block 2 is shown in Fig. 5.
- the tilt flaps 7 are rounded at the tip 12 of their triangular surface and the bearing block 2 has a constriction 4 on both sides, which is designed such that it runs parallel to the outer edge of the tilt flap 7 in the area of the tip 12.
- This design, the tilting flap 7 and the bearing block 2 is a particularly compact design, i.e. a particularly close arrangement of the tilt flaps possible.
- the bearing blocks 2, which have only one bearing for the pin 6 of the tilting flap, on the outer edge of the plate 1 (see FIG. 1) are designed like one half of the bearing block 2, which has two bearings, but the constriction is straight up to the axis of rotation is continued (this shape would inevitably result if the tilting flap 7 had a tip corresponding to the triangular shape).
- the bearing journals 6 are supported in the radial direction by the upper bearing shell 3 and the lower bearing shell 9 and in the axial direction by the bearing surface 10.
- the bearing journals 6 have a rounded end 11, which lies against the bearing surface 10 with a corresponding bearing play.
- the design of the bearing shells is explained on the basis of corresponding cuts in FIGS. 4a and 4b.
- the upper bearing shell 3 and the slot 26 interrupting it in the direction of the axis of rotation is formed by two tools, with both tools being moved away from one another after the injection molding process.
- the butt joint of both tools lies anywhere in the slot 26, but not in the vicinity of the bearing shell 3.
- the width of the slot 26 is somewhat less than the diameter of the pin 6, as a result of which the pin 6 can be pushed through the slot 26. to then be held in the final position by the upper bearing shell 3 and the lower bearing shell ' 9.
- the tilting flap 7 shown in an enlarged view in FIG. 6 has a rectangular part 13 which tapers from the thickness of the pin diameter 6 to the thickness of the triangular surface of the tilting flap 7.
- a recess 27 is made, which extends just above that to * of the tilting flap 7.
- This recess 27 serves to receive the polarization magnet 14.
- This is disc-shaped and has one pole on its top and the other pole on its underside.
- the polarization magnet can be attached to the tilting flap 7 by gluing.
- the the 'Polarisations ⁇ can magnet 14 carrying side of the tilting flap 7 black or according dark be colored, so that the Polarisations ⁇ magnet 14 preferably is slightly visible, while the other side that no recess 27 carries, white or colored according to bright.
- the plate 1 can be produced completely from a thermoplastic by an injection molding process.
- the tilt flaps 7 can also be manufactured by a spraying process.
- the upper bearing shell 3 according to FIG. 4a does not necessarily have to be semicircular but can also be angular for manufacturing reasons.
- the pin 6 of the tilting flap 7 is held from above by the two projections 30, which are formed by the slot 26 and the recess 29 in the plate caused by the tool for the spraying process (FIG. 7a). This also prevents the formation of an injection burr at the bearing point.
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Abstract
Un dispositif d'indication électromagnétique possédant une pluralité de clapets à bascule (7) triangulaires, asymétriques par rapport à l'axe de rotation, qui sont disposés sur un tableau (1) sous la forme d'une matrice. Un aimant de polarisation est appliqué sur le clapet à bascule au voisinage de l'axe de rotation. Le mouvement des clapets à bascule à support rotatif d'une première à une deuxième position est effectué, le cas échéant, par un électro-aimant (19) en liaison permanente fixé derrière le tableau (1). Un réseau de blocs de support (2) est fixé au tableau (1), chacun des quatre blocs de support (2) formant ainsi l'angle d'un carré.An electromagnetic indicating device having a plurality of triangular rocker valves (7), asymmetric with respect to the axis of rotation, which are arranged on a board (1) in the form of a matrix. A bias magnet is applied to the rocker valve in the vicinity of the axis of rotation. The movement of the rocker valves with rotary support from a first to a second position is effected, where appropriate, by an electromagnet (19) in permanent connection fixed behind the board (1). An array of support blocks (2) is attached to the board (1), each of the four support blocks (2) thus forming the angle of a square.
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Priority Applications (1)
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AT86901035T ATE52147T1 (en) | 1985-01-22 | 1986-01-21 | ELECTROMAGNETIC INDICATOR. |
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DE19853501912 DE3501912C2 (en) | 1985-01-22 | 1985-01-22 | Electromagnetic display device |
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DE19863601018 DE3601018A1 (en) | 1986-01-16 | 1986-01-16 | Electromagnetic display device |
DE3601018 | 1986-01-16 |
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EP0247045A1 true EP0247045A1 (en) | 1987-12-02 |
EP0247045B1 EP0247045B1 (en) | 1990-04-18 |
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WO (1) | WO1986004440A1 (en) |
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- 1986-01-21 US US06/916,680 patent/US4800381A/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1986-01-21 EP EP86901035A patent/EP0247045B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1986-01-21 WO PCT/DE1986/000018 patent/WO1986004440A1/en active IP Right Grant
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